Marco Gerards wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Can someone please comment if adding filesystem creation support to >> grub is reasonable. >> >> Please see the rationale at >> http://www.geocities.com/technologypages/grub-mkfs.txt >> >> Will the developers consider adding this feature? It is rather easy to >> implement as far as I can see -- only glue for external filesystem >> creation code needs to be added. > > Personally I do not like glue code at all. And creating the > filesystems like fat and swap is quite trivial, I think. > >> Although the swap sharing use case discussed in the rationale is >> trivial, it is a common problem that may bring many multi-OS users >> over to GRUB 2 and create positive "media coverage" (if that feature >> will be added). > > Right... > > I think it is easy to implement this feature, and agree it might be > useful in the cases you described. I wonder how the other developers > think about including such feature.
Well, GRUB2 supports modules. I do not see anything wrong on supplying mkfs<fs> module, but I would keep this out of normal file system code as it might cause some problems with "normal" users breaking their HD accidently. If we one day have a GRUB rescue CD image we could include this and perhaps other file system modification modules there. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
