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| From: | Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko |
| Subject: | Re: [RFT,PATCH] Move embedding to appropriate partmap files |
| Date: | Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:53:23 +0200 |
>> We may want to embed more in the future. Actually I think it's not >> ad-hoc. Basically partition map defines a function which gives back >> the sectors available for embedding. > > Is embedding useful elsewhere? Yes. Consider a world of checksummed filesystems. In such world you can't change the contents of the file by just writing to its blocklist since it will break the checksum. Similar problems exist with RAIDs and LVMs. On some systems we can't put grub-env in a file. For these cases we can embed grub-env somewhere where we can write it with ease > > -- > Robert Millan > > The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and > how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we > still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > address@hidden > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git
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