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Re: grub-installer patch



On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 04:10:25PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> I'm not so sure about this, but it was necessary on my
> machine.
> 
> For some reason (correct or not I don't know), 'grub-probe -t device /'
> returns TWO entries:
> 
> 	/dev/sda1
> 	/dev/sdb1
> 
> This on a ZFS filesystem, where those two are a mirror.
> 
> 	  pool: system
> 	 state: ONLINE
> 	  scan: none requested
> 	config:
> 	
> 		NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
> 		system      ONLINE       0     0     0
> 		  mirror-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
> 		    sda1    ONLINE       0     0     0
> 		    sdb1    ONLINE       0     0     0
> 	
> 	errors: No known data errors
> 
> 
> 
> The following changes since commit f9ede57c83544587c8f28cb6c846674759281dbb:
> 
>   releasing version 1.60+squeeze3 (2011-09-26 21:02:53 +0000)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
>   https://github.com/FransUrbo/debian-grub-installer master
> 
> Turbo Fredriksson (1):
>       Make sure that 'grub-probe -t device XXX' only takes the first entry
>       if there's multiple (as if a mirror etc).
> 
>  debian/changelog |    7 +++++++
>  grub-installer   |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> --
> Choose a job you love, and you will never have
> to work a day in your life.

If they are a software mirror (as zfs would be), you DO want grub to
install to both devices so that you can still boot if one fails.

So I would say what you did is totally wrong.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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