Bug#688336: os-probe: subvol: patches to provide bootloaders with all the subvolume info.

2017-06-10 Thread Mike Mestnik
These patches can be tested from here: https://launchpad.net/~cheako/+archive/ubuntu/boot-subvol Code from here: https://github.com/cheako/os-prober/tree/aggregate

Bug#688336: os-probe: subvol: patches to provide bootloaders with all the subvolume info.

2017-06-10 Thread Mike Mestnik
Here are corrected versions of these patches. Filesystem raid is almost certainly a separate bug. From 3d4b580dea4592793af3411fc0543af36de0e958 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Mestnik Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 13:04:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] Process

Bug#688336: os-probe: subvol: patches to provide bootloaders with all the subvolume info.

2017-06-08 Thread Mike Mestnik
Using these patches reveals they are not complete, there are two areas that need to be addressed. Firstly the kernel can and will use any device in a filesystem for the contents of /proc/mount. This causes problems in multiple areas that os-probe will have to compensate for. Second

Bug#688336: os-probe: subvol: patches to provide bootloaders with all the subvolume info.

2017-06-07 Thread Mike Mestnik
Hello, This is the result of several days working the issues and analysing each aspect. These patches include only what is necessary to support subvol. Care has been taken to future proof by preparing for other filesystems, currently this only works with btrfs. These patches have been split,