Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:58:39PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Oh and it's limited to 2 TiB on 32bit systems, so I think it would be > good if we find an alternative to it. > Western Digital and Seagate sell now 2 TB disks. Does BLKGETSIZE64 help? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy:

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 10.08.2009, 14:46 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > Am Montag, den 10.08.2009, 13:31 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:13:20AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > Am Freitag, den 07.08.2009, 21:22 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:29

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-10 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 10.08.2009, 13:31 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:13:20AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 07.08.2009, 21:22 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:29:00PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > > Am Freitag, den 07.08.2009,

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:13:20AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Freitag, den 07.08.2009, 21:22 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:29:00PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > Am Freitag, den 07.08.2009, 13:27 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 08:

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 07.08.2009, 21:22 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:29:00PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 07.08.2009, 13:27 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 08:18:29AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > > Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:29:00PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Freitag, den 07.08.2009, 13:27 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 08:18:29AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 23:19 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 06

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 07.08.2009, 13:27 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 08:18:29AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 23:19 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 06:26:51PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > > > > > > If we'd do an arb

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 08:18:29AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 23:19 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 06:26:51PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > > > > If we'd do an arbitrary mapping then `grub-probe -t drive' would show > > > the wrong grub

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 05.08.2009, 12:50 +0200 schrieb Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko: > > Vladimir said FreeBSD doestn't support multipath. > Unless I mistyped I said exactly the opposite: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom_fox&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html Oh

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-05 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> Vladimir said FreeBSD doestn't support multipath. Unless I mistyped I said exactly the opposite: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom_fox&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html > > > -- > Felix Zielcke > Proud Debian Maintainer > > > > ___

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 23:19 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 06:26:51PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > > If we'd do an arbitrary mapping then `grub-probe -t drive' would show > > the wrong grub device. > > But except from this I think that would be okay. > > We can

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 06:26:51PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > If we'd do an arbitrary mapping then `grub-probe -t drive' would show > the wrong grub device. > But except from this I think that would be okay. We can never garantee that `grub-probe -t drive' will show the "right" drive, at lea

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-07-31 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 18:05 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:43:23AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2009, 20:12 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:05:31PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > > As requested by Robert on

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:43:23AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2009, 20:12 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:05:31PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > > As requested by Robert on IRC, this is a split from my dmraid patch. > > > On dmraid devices HDIO

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-07-29 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 28.07.2009, 20:12 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:05:31PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > As requested by Robert on IRC, this is a split from my dmraid patch. > > On dmraid devices HDIO_GETGEO returns 0 for all fields, so the current > > way of grub_util_b

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-07-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 04:05:31PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > As requested by Robert on IRC, this is a split from my dmraid patch. > On dmraid devices HDIO_GETGEO returns 0 for all fields, so the current > way of grub_util_biosdisk_get_grub_dev just can't work. > So I use blkid to get the UUID o