Bug#701814: Re: Bug#701814: os-prober: damages XFS exported via iSCSI but not mounted locally; potential data loss

2013-10-06 Thread Ivo De Decker
Hi, On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 12:11:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 01:29:54PM +0100, Ivo De Decker wrote: Is there still a reason to keep trying the regular mount? Are there cases where grub-mount is expected to fail? Maybe only trying grub-mount could be the

Bug#701814: Re: Bug#701814: os-prober: damages XFS exported via iSCSI but not mounted locally; potential data loss

2013-07-14 Thread Ivo De Decker
Hi Colin, On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 12:11:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: When grub-mount fails, os-prober sets the device read-only and tries to mount it. It looks like the error reported in this bug was caused by setting the device read-only, not by mounting it. The mount didn't change

Bug#701814: Re: Bug#701814: os-prober: damages XFS exported via iSCSI but not mounted locally; potential data loss

2013-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 01:29:54PM +0100, Ivo De Decker wrote: Is there still a reason to keep trying the regular mount? Are there cases where grub-mount is expected to fail? Maybe only trying grub-mount could be the default. grub-mount is only available on architectures where GRUB has been

Bug#701814: Re: Bug#701814: os-prober: damages XFS exported via iSCSI but not mounted locally; potential data loss

2013-03-25 Thread Ivo De Decker
Hi, On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:27:05PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: os-prober uses 'mount -o ro', or grub-mount from 1.45: commit 7ed9dec4d2c65056f211324f8e25a4d913b0f2a1 Author: Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org Date: Fri Apr 8 17:39:32 2011 +0100 Use grub-mount if it exists. This

Bug#701814: Re: Bug#701814: os-prober: damages XFS exported via iSCSI but not mounted locally; potential data loss

2013-03-04 Thread Balint Reczey
Hi, On 02/27/2013 05:28 PM, Torsten Jerzembeck wrote: Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 13:41:45 +0100, Torsten Jerzembeck wrote: Package: os-prober Version: 1.42 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss While updating the kernel on a storage server

Bug#701814: Re: Bug#701814: os-prober: damages XFS exported via iSCSI but not mounted locally; potential data loss

2013-03-04 Thread q1werty
Hi, os-prober uses 'mount -o ro', or grub-mount from 1.45: Please excuse me if this is trivial, but '-o ro' does not prevent write access! According to man: Note that, depending on the filesystem type, state and kernel behavior, the system may still write to the device. For example, Ext3 or

Bug#701814: Re: Bug#701814: os-prober: damages XFS exported via iSCSI but not mounted locally; potential data loss

2013-03-04 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi, 2013/3/4 q1we...@i.com.ua: Hi, os-prober uses 'mount -o ro', or grub-mount from 1.45: Please excuse me if this is trivial, but '-o ro' does not prevent write access! According to man: Note that, depending on the filesystem type, state and kernel behavior, the system may still