On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:27:36PM +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> > Remove the requirement that the ESP be $BOOT. The downside of that isWe can, but the spec requires that it be VFAT, and it's not reasonable
> > that we'll then have *yet another* partition (/boot, because we want
> > kernels stored on a filesystem that supports xattrs, /boot/efi for the
> > ESP, /boot/whatever for storing the config fragments) which isn't a huge
> > issue for GPT but would be annoying with MBR.
> >
>
> Can't we store those fragments in the same filesystem /boot is on?
for us to make /boot VFAT (no selinux labelling, for instance).
I guess this is so more minimal bootloaders could read it?
Another partition is not something I'd want either. What are the downsides of
putting those files on the ESP, besides it not being a standard practice for
other OS providers?
putting those files on the ESP, besides it not being a standard practice for
other OS providers?
-Elad Alfassa.
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