From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't create grubenv on ZFS
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:05:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2BB14C.8040207@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328181390.3572.74.camel@watermelon.coderich.net>
On 02.02.2012 12:16, Richard Laager wrote:
> GRUB can't write to ZFS. Creating a grubenv file leads to a misleading
> "sparse file not allowed" error on boot. The attached patch for
> grub-install skips the creation of a grubenv file on ZFS.
This isn't specific to ZFS. BtrFS, squash4, all variants of cpio, tar
and romfs are affected by the same problem. Could you expand your patch
to handle those?
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-03 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-02 11:16 [PATCH] Don't create grubenv on ZFS Richard Laager
2012-02-03 10:05 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2012-02-03 10:07 ` Richard Laager
2012-02-03 10:22 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2012-02-03 11:59 ` Richard Laager
2012-02-04 22:34 ` Jordan Uggla
2012-02-05 1:26 ` Richard Laager
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