Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

[Seth Goldberg]

On Oct 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Seth Goldberg wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
>  Also: can we please retain the liners usage

  Sorry -- that should have read libzfs, not liners.

 --S


> for those platforms that actually have it and that would rather use it?  I 
> can certainly understand the desire to eliminate it for platforms that don't 
> have or don't want to port it, but eliminating it from all platforms is 
> overkill.
> 
>  Thanks,
>  --S
> 
> On Oct 15, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Please test / comment on proof-of-concept attached patch, it gets rid
>> of libzfs dependency in GRUB.
>> 
>> The approach is to implement a disk abstraction, like LVM does, but in
>> this case a very simple one (passthrough).  Then grub-probe et al can
>> obtain their information from this abstraction layer like they
>> currently do with LVM or mdRAID, but they don't need the device node
>> list anymore (since it's filled with a full scan, as with LVM).
>> 
>> -- 
>> Robert Millan
>> <zfs.diff>
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