Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This disk driver allows access to partitions that contain a filesystem with > known UUID via "(UUID=xxxxxxx)" syntax. > > The iterator is unimplemented on purpose, because it makes the code smaller > and it isn't useful to waste time inspecting the same devices twice while > scanning for LVM / whatsoever. > > Also note that as it currently stands it is highly inefficient. I can't > understand why; new UUIDs are searched everytime on each open() call, but > this shouldn't be much of an issue since we have a disk cache in kernel to > make that efficient. At least, it isn't e.g. for grub_fs_probe() which is > called multiple times. > > Even with this efficiency problem, since it doesn't interfere with anything > else I'm inclined to commit it, if nobody objects.
Why didn't you just extend the search command? I think that would be favorable. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
