On Oct 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Seth Goldberg wrote: > Hi again, > > Also: can we please retain the liners usage
Sorry -- that should have read libzfs, not liners. --S > for those platforms that actually have it and that would rather use it? I > can certainly understand the desire to eliminate it for platforms that don't > have or don't want to port it, but eliminating it from all platforms is > overkill. > > Thanks, > --S > > On Oct 15, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Robert Millan <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Please test / comment on proof-of-concept attached patch, it gets rid >> of libzfs dependency in GRUB. >> >> The approach is to implement a disk abstraction, like LVM does, but in >> this case a very simple one (passthrough). Then grub-probe et al can >> obtain their information from this abstraction layer like they >> currently do with LVM or mdRAID, but they don't need the device node >> list anymore (since it's filled with a full scan, as with LVM). >> >> -- >> Robert Millan >> <zfs.diff> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
