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Re: [Design] nested partitions: Unify grub_partition and grub_disk
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Robert Millan |
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Re: [Design] nested partitions: Unify grub_partition and grub_disk |
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Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:38:15 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 03:58:46PM +0100, phcoder wrote:
> Hello. I was looking into nested partitions issue and propose to unify
> grub_partition and grub_disk. In this case when a code calls
> grub_disk_read with a grub_disk_t which represents a partition it will
> correct the offset and call grub_disk_read with underlying partition or
> disk. In this way not only nested partitions become natural but also
> conceptually similar fields of total_sectors and len become unified. As
> it's an important design change I send this e-mail before coding it
Makes sense to me. But it'd be interesting to hear from the person who
designed it this way. Perhaps there's a non-obvious reason.
Who's that? Maybe Marco or Okuji?
Also an interesting question is how would "has_partitions" field be
handled in this scheme.
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