Am Sonntag, den 25.10.2009, 10:27 +0100 schrieb Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko: > > find_root_device in util/getroot.c seemed to be exactly what I > wanted: > > it just trawls /dev for the appropriate major and minor numbers. > This > > code is not performance-critical, so that should be fine. > Not true. Even in current state grub-mkconfig is taking considerable > time to complete on my system with numerous kernels. Unless someone > implements a cache (it can be invalidated after 5 minutes) not to go > through the same probing procedure on every grub-probe call I object > against adding any additional delay in probing procedure
We have a bug report in Debian[0] open that grub-probe is very slow due to the use of ioctl(BLKFLSBUF) A comment above it says this is needed due to a bug in the Linux kernel. Is there a safe way to check if this is still needed with a recent Kernel? This seems to be added 2003, so things could have changed now a bit. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508834 -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
