Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-16 Thread Seth Goldberg
Quoting Robert Millan, who wrote the following on Sun, 16 Oct 2011: 2011/10/15 Seth Goldberg : Hi again,  Also: can we please retain the libzfs usage for those platforms that actually have it and that would rather use it? What for? libzfs is only needed for a single operation (determinin

Re: Resizing moving & deleting partitions

2011-10-16 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 17.10.2011 00:40, Chris Jones wrote: > Lately, I had to increase the size of the partition where grub-pc is > managed. Upon rebooting, the grub menu had become inaccessible, all > I could see was an "Error: file not found". As far as I can remember, > there was also a shell-like prompt with "res

Resizing moving & deleting partitions

2011-10-16 Thread Chris Jones
Lately, I had to increase the size of the partition where grub-pc is managed. Upon rebooting, the grub menu had become inaccessible, all I could see was an "Error: file not found". As far as I can remember, there was also a shell-like prompt with "rescue" or "grub rescue" followed by the greater th

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Millan
2011/10/16 Robert Millan : >> What is the device node list used for? To list devices that each need grub >> installed, or for something else? > > grub-probe internally needs access to the raw devices because it wants > to use GRUB codepaths to obtain fs_uuid and such. In other words: to use same

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Millan
2011/10/15 Seth Goldberg : > Hi again, > >  Also: can we please retain the libzfs usage for those platforms that > actually have it and that would rather use it? What for? libzfs is only needed for a single operation (determining physical device list). With my patch that operation is no longer

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Millan
2011/10/15 Seth Goldberg : > Hi, > >  Have you tested this with phcoder's experimental zfs branch that has > mirroring support? No. I guess I might have duplicated some work; where's that branch? I'll try to rebase my patch. > What is the device node list used for? To list devices that each nee