Hi all, I'm a student applying for this year's GSoC and planning to add XFS support to the syslinux bootloader. I did some research on the syslinux's implementation, and have a rough idea. XFS starts its superblock from the first bytes of partition, where syslinux would install its boot codes(in the first 512 bytes). Currently, we have two approach to handle that. One is to follow the GRUB that put its codes in the first few bytes immediately following the MBR and before the first partition's first sector. However, this approach breaks some designing rules of syslinux, so it won't be accepted. The other one that we are now considering is to use the remaining 2048 bytes left in XFS's first block. But I'm not sure that this area is reserved for some new features in the future. Any comment? Regards, Chen Baozi _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
