On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 05:24:07PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 17.08.2008, 17:07 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > > fz:~# update-grub > > > error: out of disk > > > error: out of disk > > > Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ... > > > > This just means someone is reporting this error and shouldn't. It's a bug. > > > Hi Robert, > > Marco already said on IRC before I even send the mail that the error > shouldn't be displayed if a dmraid is detected on it. > Maybe too complicated and the error shouldn't be shown at all.
Hiding errors is a very bad practice. And hiding them because the output is ugly or because something is reporting false positives is even worse IMHO. This "out of disk" sounds like a false positive indeed. It's a bug, somewhere. Something is handling errors in a place where this particular error shouldn't be reported. Maybe it should handle them somewhere else, or maybe they should be handled selectively. > The error won't be shown on real GRUB anyway. Why not? > Maybe just grub-install and update-grub should be a little changed to > supress repeating the errors that much, i.e. not on every grub-probe > run? That's difficult to archieve due to current design, but sounds to me as a minor problem in comparison with what we had before. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
