Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname
On 4/16/20 8:45 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
>> dolbeau@powermacg5:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/ofpath*
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24392 Apr 14 2019 /usr/sbin/ofpath
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 26 10:49 /usr/sbin/ofpathname ->
>> /usr/sbin/ofpath
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40016 Feb 10 2019 /usr/sbin/ofpathname-ibm
>>
>> No idea why that happened, unless I did some weird things trying to
>> get 'grub' to work, and then promptly forgot about it...
>
> I assume this was changed so whenever the GRUB configuration gets
> changed or updated (e.g. during package updates) GRUB uses a **working**
> device-to-OF-path-translator, because otherwise the next boot will fail,
> as the original `ofpathname` returns non-working OF paths.
Yeah, I agree. That was most likely done because of that.
Adrian
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