From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Raid5 regression
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 22:23:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC1B5DF.2040905@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DC19CD9.20702@cfl.rr.com>
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> So the net result is that even though it always was detecting the
> superblock on both the whole disk and on the partition, it used to let
> the one found on the partition supersede so everything worked, but now
> it keeps the one on the whole disk and so things break.
>
Now it breaks less then previously. Previous behaviour resulted in NULL
dereference in some cases.
> How should this conflict be resolved? I would think that the
> partition should take precedence like it used to.
>
Ideally by using 1.1 metadata. It's in the end of the device but
contains enough data to unambigously tell if it belongs to disk or
partition.
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-04 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-03 14:33 Raid5 regression Phillip Susi
2011-05-03 15:30 ` Phillip Susi
2011-05-03 20:39 ` Phillip Susi
2011-05-03 21:15 ` Jérôme Poulin
2011-05-04 6:17 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-05-04 11:23 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-05-04 13:49 ` Phillip Susi
2011-05-04 15:09 ` Phillip Susi
2011-05-04 15:21 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-05-04 18:37 ` Phillip Susi
2011-05-04 19:01 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-05-04 20:23 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2011-05-05 14:38 ` Phillip Susi
2011-05-05 16:57 ` Goswin von Brederlow
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