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Re: [PATCH] Don't create grubenv on ZFS


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't create grubenv on ZFS
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:05:00 +0100
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On 02.02.2012 12:16, Richard Laager wrote:
GRUB can't write to ZFS.  Creating a grubenv file leads to a misleading
"sparse file not allowed" error on boot.  The attached patch for
grub-install skips the creation of a grubenv file on ZFS.
This isn't specific to ZFS. BtrFS, squash4, all variants of cpio, tar and romfs are affected by the same problem. Could you expand your patch to handle those?



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