On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:38:52AM +0800, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > Currently, the blocklist format can only support traditional disk. I'm > thinking about a new format that can be used in raid as well. > > The new format is like this: > > checksum_0 blocklist_0 checksum_1 blocklist_1 ... > > The checksum is the checksum of sectors in the blocklist that follows. > For example: > > c1 10+20,40+10 c2 10+50 > > This means 10-30,40-50 sectors from one disk, then 10-60 sectors from > another disk. The checksum is used to find the correct disk. > > For traditional disk, we can also use this format, for example: > > c1 10+20,40+10 > > This can support install to different disk than the one core.img is > in, as it will scan all disks for the correct checksum at runtime.
IMHO, I think we should try to get rid of blocklists, or avoid reliing on them as much as possible. Specially now that we have a good compression ratio for msdos partmaps, and plenty of space on gpt ones. -- 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 Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
