Bug#635224: grub-pc: `grub-probe --target=fs` detects UFS filesystem as ZFS

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 24.07.2011 12:45, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:37:39PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>>> This is still a bug though, as would be pretty hard to zero the hard
>>> drive of an already installed production system.
>>>
>> It's not possible to distinguish whether ZFS or UFS a leftover. They may
>> both contain enough metadata to even access some files.
> If there is no other ways, then `update-grub` needs to check out what is
> the filesystem used for `/boot` and use that.
Which is subject to exactly the same problem.
>  Otherwise this is likely
> to break some system upgrades from Squeeze to Wheezy.
>
> Cheers,


-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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