From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1RtG12-0006bQ-VW for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:05:12 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57713) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtG11-0006b2-10 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:05:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtG0v-00022e-7K for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:05:10 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:37969) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtG0u-00021G-U9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:05:05 -0500 Received: by wera13 with SMTP id a13so3303594wer.0 for ; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:05:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wuukEJfEiApoDU/Pl5a7Hp3R2E7C2oK2Ge7NHETvzdU=; b=k3ksY0t6kV1CRglCJ3KQrlfUSu/Q9ORXRAEWv6zjS3zRyOJtKz92jUzDssBE71DeI8 H//mKkgInGrt9X/34/bYz70pSxUKcvZBRgGQEBEXOLIzCgMcHSd2kMzJ6z4QQlKvHhah wyVaRHB38zk8kf4SHXKecdsbU9e0QEuWa22A8= Received: by 10.216.136.155 with SMTP id w27mr3398101wei.8.1328263503957; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:05:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (180-34.203-62.cust.bluewin.ch. [62.203.34.180]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hc10sm5403375wib.8.2012.02.03.02.05.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:05:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F2BB14C.8040207@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:05:00 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20120104 Icedove/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't create grubenv on ZFS References: <1328181390.3572.74.camel@watermelon.coderich.net> In-Reply-To: <1328181390.3572.74.camel@watermelon.coderich.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 Cc: Richard Laager X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:05:12 -0000 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? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko