Re: grub RAID heuristics (how can we avoid "superfluous RAID member (2 found)")

2012-02-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:49:00 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:43:23 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: > > [dkg wrote:] > > > Select the smallest known block device that can completely enclose the > > > RAID member. The larger block device(s) should

Re: grub RAID heuristics (how can we avoid "superfluous RAID member (2 found)")

2012-02-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:43:23 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > [dkg wrote:] > > Select the smallest known block device that can completely enclose the > > RAID member. The larger block device(s) should not be considered to be > > exporting that RAID. phcoder pointed me to th

Re: grub RAID heuristics (how can we avoid "superfluous RAID member (2 found)")

2012-02-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:43:23 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Try attached patch hrm, i get a segmentation fault from "grub-probe /" even without this patch when building from bzr trunk (r3964, i think). The test machine i've set up looks like this uses a common layering sc

Re: grub RAID heuristics (how can we avoid "superfluous RAID member (2 found)")

2012-02-22 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 02.02.2012 01:55, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: hi folks-- i was speaking with phcoder today on #grub, about getting messages like this from grub when a partition that is part of a Linux SW RAID set (with metadata 0.9x) is close to the end of its containing block device: superfluous RAID mem

grub RAID heuristics (how can we avoid "superfluous RAID member (2 found)")

2012-02-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hi folks-- i was speaking with phcoder today on #grub, about getting messages like this from grub when a partition that is part of a Linux SW RAID set (with metadata 0.9x) is close to the end of its containing block device: superfluous RAID member (2 found) Here's phcoder's explanation of the