[bug #43653] grub-probe fails to find ZFS VDEVs in /dev/mapper

[Bart Kus]

URL:
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                 Summary: grub-probe fails to find ZFS VDEVs in /dev/mapper
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: bkus
            Submitted on: Fri 21 Nov 2014 01:26:54 AM GMT
                Category: Disk &amp; Partition
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: 2.02~beta1
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

When the root filesystem is a ZFS composed of VDEVs from /dev/mapper (eg:
/dev/mapper/cryptroot), grub-probe fails to find the underlying device(s). 
This is because it calls out to zpool to find the VDEVs of rpool, but they're
listed as non-absolute names in zpool's output, and grub-probe then tries to
find the full paths in /dev, but not any sub-dir of /dev, like /dev/mapper.

A workaround is to create symlinks in /dev using the exact same device names
as listed in zpool's output.  grub-probe then succeeds and things like
grub-mkconfig start working.

Please enhance grub-probe's support for ZFS by searching deeper in the /dev
tree, or find an alternate more precise way of obtaining the VDEV information
from ZFS.





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