Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 16:01 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:09:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:38:10AM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:21:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > > Edward - please do continue to develop patches for GRUB 1 (the one that
> > > still actually works plenty well enough for lots of people) and ignore the
> > > naysayers who are happy to throw out backwards compatibility.
> 
> It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's work and port it to
> GRUB 2. If nobody else does then I'd be interested in doing so myself,
> although I will not be able to start for a month or two from now.


Whoever wants to do this, needs also solve the problem that st.stat_rdev
never matches st.st_dev of the real device.
So `grub-probe -t device /' is broken with btrfs.

This seems to be wanted:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/3609/focus=3610
But I haven't read the other mails in that thread.

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer