> Any objections to something like an ioctl (fd, FIFREEZETHAW, 0) ? It's going to be completely trivial, which argues for it. The only points left woul be bikeshedding over the name, and how to describe its semantics. > in the end probably the real fix is probably something like storing > multiple copies of the bootloader config with checksums that grub > can verify. Basically teach grub to try really hard to extract known-good > data from the FS. For file-level consistency that'd be pretty easy, > we could have e.g. The real answer is to have a filesystem that does the above for you for the boot partition, e.g. one where the kernel and grub have a common consistency protocol for.
