Package: grub
Version: 0.97-27
Severity: grave
I prefer use xfs as root file system. grub-install always freeze total
system on linux installation or grub update. Manual installation grub
always fine.
I tried investigate script. Heh, mates, there are not logic at all.
# XFS needs special magic
xfs_frozen=false
if which xfs_freeze > /dev/null ; then
cat << EOF
Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a segmentation
fault when ${grubdir} is not in an XFS filesystem. This error is harmless and
can be ignored.
EOF
if xfs_freeze -f ${grubdir} ; then xfs_frozen=true ; fi
fi
I can't undestand, why do you need freeze total filesystem? Do you plan write t
o stage1,2 or change it location in the same time? Even in this case your
freeze will not well, because location of files will be changed later and
grub-install will be had to rerun. If you want prevent writing in this files
better use linux lock on files, rather then freeze total filesytem. No matter,
this freeze is not needed at all.
Later you run:
$grub_shell --batch $no_floppy --device-map=$device_map <<EOF >$log_file
And you try to write to file in the same filesystem. Bingo, script is locked.
And after killing script whole filesystem remain be freezed. You will not be
able even to login in linux with such root filesystem. Even soft reboot will
not work. Only hard reset button will help.
And very strange method to detect, when filesystem must be freezed. There may
be situations when filesystem is xfs, but have not xfs utils or there are xfs
utils but filesystem is not xfs.
I insist, all code about xfs filesystem is wrong, unnessesary and must be
removed.
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Debian Release: lenny/sid
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