From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:01:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA53774.2010005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOfDtXOFuXCsPQ3A4MrYz1+XjgQOECZqs009ackzi4V2r5=SYw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 15.10.2011 18:59, Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please test / comment on proof-of-concept attached patch, it gets rid
> of libzfs dependency in GRUB.
>
It looks like this patch would map all zpools with the same name to the
same device. That's a problem since system may have several
identically-named pools or misdetect a pool somewhere where there is none.
> The approach is to implement a disk abstraction, like LVM does, but in
> this case a very simple one (passthrough). Then grub-probe et al can
> obtain their information from this abstraction layer like they
> currently do with LVM or mdRAID, but they don't need the device node
> list anymore (since it's filled with a full scan, as with LVM).
>
>
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-08 1:28 getroot for ZFS without libzfs? Zachary Bedell
2011-08-09 11:54 ` Robert Millan
2011-08-09 17:34 ` Zachary Bedell
2011-08-10 12:22 ` Robert Millan
2011-08-11 1:04 ` Zachary Bedell
2011-08-12 11:29 ` Robert Millan
2011-08-18 17:05 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-08-25 5:35 ` Seth Goldberg
2011-10-15 16:59 ` Robert Millan
2011-10-15 17:47 ` Seth Goldberg
2011-10-16 9:27 ` Robert Millan
2011-10-16 9:33 ` Robert Millan
2011-10-15 17:51 ` Seth Goldberg
2011-10-16 3:18 ` Seth Goldberg
2011-10-16 9:31 ` Robert Millan
2011-10-17 2:57 ` Seth Goldberg
2011-10-24 10:01 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
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