On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:37:01AM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > 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
I think this is only an issue in very specific situations. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
