On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 05:06:39PM -0600, Richard Laager wrote: > I submitted this patch to Ubuntu some time ago, but apparently never > submitted it directly to the GRUB project. > > I have copied the information from my Ubuntu bug report (including > attachments) into this email. If you wish to see the original bug > report, it is available here: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1639209: > > Replace a drive in a pool. > zpool replace grape1 sdg1 sdf1 > > Note that this creates a replacing-0 line in the zpool status output: > > root@grape:~# zpool status > pool: grape1 > state: ONLINE > status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will > continue to function, possibly in a degraded state. > action: Wait for the resilver to complete. > scan: resilver in progress since Fri Nov 4 04:58:55 2016 > 37.4G scanned out of 4.06T at 17.6M/s, 66h42m to go > 5.26G resilvered, 0.90% done > config: > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > grape1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > raidz3-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > replacing-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > sdg1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > sdf1 ONLINE 0 0 0 (resilvering) > sdd1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > sdc1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > sdb1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > sdh1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > sde1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > sda1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > errors: No known data errors > > Then try to install GRUB to that drive: > > root@grape:~# grub-install /dev/sdf > Installing for i386-pc platform. > grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of `/dev/replacing-0'. > > The attached patch fixes this. > > Unfortunately, then I get this: > > root@grape:~# grub-install /dev/sdf > Installing for i386-pc platform. > grub-install: error: unknown filesystem.
So, AIUI this patch does not solve the problem or just does it partially. Should not we update the docs instead and say that grub-install should be called when resilvering is finished? > Once the resilver completed, I was able to grub-install successfully. > Looking at the grub-install debug output, it seems that GRUB looks > primarily at the first device. I have a hunch that my patch would fix > the case where the first device is not the one being resilvered. But we > still need to fix the case where the first device is being resilvered. I have a feeling that I do not understand last two sentences. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
