Re: Bug#423022: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

2007-05-21 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sat, 19 May 2007 15:13:58 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > In addition, it would be nice if the 'out of disk' error could be > deferred until grub actually tries to read a block that is out of range, > as grub-legacy does The problem is that it actually tries to do that, because the RAID superblock

Re: Bug#423022: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

2007-05-21 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:08 +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > At Sat, 19 May 2007 15:13:58 +0100, > Sam Morris wrote: > > In addition, it would be nice if the 'out of disk' error could be > > deferred until grub actually tries to read a block that is out of range, > > as grub-legacy does > > The pro

Re: Bug#423022: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

2007-05-21 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Mon, 21 May 2007 13:23:38 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:08 +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > At Sat, 19 May 2007 15:13:58 +0100, > > Sam Morris wrote: > > > In addition, it would be nice if the 'out of disk' error could be > > > deferred until grub actually tries to read

Re: problem with RAID and LBA addressing

2007-05-21 Thread Amin Azez
* Robert Millan wrote, On 19/05/07 17:45: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > >> On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 17:51 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> >>> Forwarding to upstream. Anyone knows why Sam's mails aren't echoed in the >>> list, despite grub-devel@gnu.org is in C

Re: problem with RAID and LBA addressing

2007-05-21 Thread Sam Morris
> Or at least permitting a subscribe-to-post for those who prefer to use > gmain. > > Mailman is a right pain in that respect. Just because I'm subscribed > (to post) doesn't mean I want any messages at all, I much prefer > gmane's NNTP to mailing list. FYI, you can disable message delivery via M

Moving to another SCM

2007-05-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, I'd like to ask if GRUB is planning to move to another SCM? I've been using GIT for a while and it looks great for the kinda of work done at GRUB since there're a lot of people working together and sometimes a feature need some time to get mature enough to be merged in and this fits very w

Re: Bug#423022: Bug#422851: "grub-probe -t partmap" doesn't work with software RAID

2007-05-21 Thread Sam Morris
On Mon, 21 May 2007 15:13:39 +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: >> If this is the case, it would be nice if the raid module would only >> throw a warning if some of the component devices could not be added to >> a RAID1 array. > > I think the handling of errors/warnings in GRUB2 can probably be > improv