On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:36:34PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Shrug, either we force the user to do something to get the blocks on > > disk in a stable location or we have a bootloader that can parse the > > disk format. It's either pain on the developers (patching grub) or pain > > on every user, and the support people who have to remind them to rerun > > grub-find-the-disk-blocks-just-like-lilo > > I think this thread may be confusing /usr/bin/grub with grub the bootloader. > > One of the useful features of grub the bootloader is that it can boot > from a real filesystem without needing "run lilo before it's safe to > boot - or you'll regret shutting down". > > That feature needs to use some kind of bleeding-eyes filesystem code, > or it will be as large as the filesystem code in Linux. If the lilo or grub approach is better is at least debatable, but that's not really the point here. > On the other hand, any dodgy direct access done by /usr/bin/grub has > no justification and is fair game for deletion, imho. That _is_ the real problem. But we're getting quite offtopic as non of that is related to FIEMAP anymore ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
