Re: [PATCH] grub-probefs --root-device

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Friday 22 September 2006 18:33, Robert Millan wrote:
> This would be very useful to get rid of ugly kludges in Debian, such as
> this one:
>  
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grub/grub2/trunk/debian/update-grub?op=file&;
>rev=0&sc=0 (look for convert() here)
>
> Fortunately grub-probefs is already doing what we need, we just need a way
> to tell it to print the information.

However, this usage is against the original meaning, thus the naming is not 
appropriate any longer. In addition, I don't like that we make an ad-hoc text 
output (the first line is a fs module name, the second line is a root device 
name, etc.).

So I propose that we rename the utility to "grub-probe" and add some options 
to change the target of grub-probe. The default should be probing a fs to 
help people who are used to grub-probefs. Here is an example:

$ grub-probe --target=fs
ufs
$ grub-probe
ufs
$ grub-probe --target=drive
(hd0,1)
$ grub-probe --target=device
/dev/hda1

What do you think?

Okuji