Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-10 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:30:36PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Ack to commit them. Applied, thanks. -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-09 Thread Guido Günther
HI Otavio, On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:30:36PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I'm ok with you pushing it for Beta2 but I'd like that you keep around > if any issues is discovery with your code changes. I hope we'll be > able to do a fast Beta2 release and want to avoid too risky changes. Sure. The

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Otavio Salvador
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 08 March 2008, Guido Günther wrote: >> Maybe we can move all things into place after beta1? > > Yes, that would be fine IMO, but needs OK from Otavio as another release is > planned soon after beta1

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 08 March 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 05:04:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > It would be great if you could do grub2 support as that would also > > cover dmraid support with grub2. I originally implemented it, but > > cannot test it ATM (have a system that suppor

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 05:04:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > It would be great if you could do grub2 support as that would also cover > dmraid support with grub2. I originally implemented it, but cannot test it > ATM (have a system that supports it, but no spare SATA disks to play with). Can you

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 08 March 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > Maybe we can move all things into place after beta1? Yes, that would be fine IMO, but needs OK from Otavio as another release is planned soon after beta1. > I'll look into updating partman-multipath with your suggestions Was wondering when that

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 08:10:46AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Looks fine to me. Thanks for reviewing. Maybe we can move all things into place after beta1? I'll look into updating partman-multipath with your suggestions and hopefully grub2 support until then. -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:55:54AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > I don't exactly agree about "meaningless". Knowing that WWID means > "WorldWide IDentifier" helped me to understand that this seems to be a > generic way to name a multipath device, so expanding the acronym has > at least some tea

Re: Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:34:45PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Of course, GRUB stuff comes pretty late, but it wouldn't really hurst > to put "WorldWide IDentifier" somewhere: I think it's fine to put this in the manual but people not knowing what a WWID is will have a hard time to even set u

Re: Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 08 March 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > I don't exactly agree about "meaningless". Knowing that WWID means > "WorldWide IDentifier" helped me to understand that this seems to be a > generic way to name a multipath device, so expanding the acronym has > at least some teaching benefit.

Re: Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-08 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Friday 07 March 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > > I cleaned that up - most of was came in due copy paste from other places > > in the file. Thanks again for the comments, a new version is attached. > > Looks fine to me. > > I'm not sure that I agree with C

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 07 March 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > I cleaned that up - most of was came in due copy paste from other places > in the file. Thanks again for the comments, a new version is attached. Looks fine to me. I'm not sure that I agree with Christian [1] about expanding WWID. I would say that

Re: Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Guido Günther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > +# :sl3: > +_Description: Install the GRUB boot loader to the multipath device? > + Installation of GRUB on multipath is experimental. > + . > + GRUB is always installed to the master boot record (MBR) of the multipath > + device. It is also assumed tha

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-07 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Frans, On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:16:17PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > In general I'm not sure that this approach is correct. In the case of SATA > RAID, the BIOS actually knows what the RAID devices are and the RAID device > _is_ what you select in the BIOS as the "disk" to be booted from. In the

Re: Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Guido Günther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > +# :sl3: > > +_Description: Install the GRUB boot loader to the multipath device? > > + Installation of GRUB on multipath is experimental. > > I'm not very keen to add warnings about experimental fea

Re: Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-03 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Guido Günther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > +# :sl3: > +_Description: Install the GRUB boot loader to the multipath device? > + Installation of GRUB on multipath is experimental. I'm not very keen to add warnings about experimental features in the templates. Will we remember about removing them

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 01 March 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > attached is a first version of multipath support for grub-install to get > some comments. It basically uses the sataraid code. In general I'm not sure that this approach is correct. In the case of SATA RAID, the BIOS actually knows what the RAID de

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-02 Thread Guido Günther
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 07:57:15PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > attached is a first version of multipath support for grub-install to get > some comments. It basically uses the sataraid code. The current code ...as Frans pointed out I forgot the attachment. -- Guido >From b36dac79b414d9a9b472f32ee

Bug#468832: multipath support

2008-03-01 Thread Guido Günther
Package: grub-installer Version: 1.29 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, attached is a first version of multipath support for grub-install to get some comments. It basically uses the sataraid code. The current code has: - if ... [ $frgrubroot -gt 0 ] && [ -e $ROOT$frdev$frbootpart ]; then which