Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

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On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 07:25:16AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> On 12/03/2012 05:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > It's part of the filesystem format, there's no way to change it.
> 
> This may be true, but not a priori.  extN has feature flags which can
> be used to enable leaving more space, or other larger space at a "constant"
> offset.  For example, the first otherwise-allocatable filesystem block might
> be permanently allocated for use by booting.  There may be other ways, too.

Sure, this is a problem that could be solved. But nobody's working on 
solving it, and it's not going to be solved in time for F18.

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