Re: [PATCH] Split of raid scan code

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:08:07PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> >>
> >> grub-probe don't use the recover module, so if it have problem at
> >> install time, user would know about it (error message would be
> >> "raid5rec not loaded").
> >
> > Sounds fine to me.  But the error message is too cryptic IMHO.  Consider the
> > situation in which user was running grub-install and sees this error.
> > Shouldn't we tell her to fix the RAID instead?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> How about "please load raid5rec.mod to enable raid5 recovery" ?

Ah, I was thinking the recommended solution was to fix the RAID instead so
that it won't need recovery.

Are you sure asking to have raid5rec loaded is a good idea?  It might not
fit, which IIUC was the problem we were trying to avoid.

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