On Mar 19, 2014, at 7:02 AM, Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> It's one of the reasons why I really really dislike the invention of
> /boot/efi as the mount point for the ESP…


I agree, although I go farther. The EFI System partition doesn't scale, isn't 
resilient, can neither be mirrored nor easily sync'd (multidevice boot). It 
should be considered a pre-boot and OS installer domain only.

Are bootloader updates necessary? On BIOS this is ignored, no updates 
effectively happen, even if the grub package is update, grub2-install isn't 
invoked so no update really occurs to the bootloader.

On UEFI it's the opposite. An updated grub-efi package causes grub<arch>.efi to 
be overwritten, and invoking grub2-install will break Secure Boot systems.

If UEFI bootloader updates are considered necessary then we need a better way 
than assuming there's only one ESP, by only updating the one at /boot/efi. 
Because that's not necessarily the one being executed by the firmware. The 
bootloader RPM would need to mount all ESP's on the system, replace-existing, 
unmount.

So whether yes/no to bootloader updates, /boot/efi either isn't needed or 
doesn't meet the requirements.


Chris Murphy
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