On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:58:05PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > Ping. Is it ok for me to implement it this way?
I'd really like it if Okuji could give his impression on this one, if possible. > phcoder wrote: >> I forgot to speak about another question: partition naming. I see 2 >> possibilities >> 1) purely numeric unified naming scheme. It means that >> (hd0,1,a) becomes (hd0,1,1) >> On one hand mixed number-letter scheme is similar to what freebsd uses >> but on the other hand numerical scheme is versatile and allows >> unlimited nestedness. And I don't see why we would use a scheme >> specific to one of many supported OSes. >> 2) Every partition map is allowed to pick the name that it likes as >> long as it contains no comma. In this way we would need to keep >> partition-name parsing functions in partitition map modules. It means >> that this code would be duplicated. But this scheme is better in the >> cases when partition map has no numbering scheme but instead has labels >> attached to partitions. But in this case IMO search command should be >> used find the partition >> >> I personally would prefer the first way >>> Also an interesting question is how would "has_partitions" field be >>> handled in this scheme. >> >> Just ignored. It's actually used only to optimise some code out based >> on the assumption that some media has no partitions. Performance gain >> is negligible but if this assumption doesn't hold true grub won't be >> able to access the partitions which are really here. Famous example is >> a cdrom. Most people would assume that cdrom has no partitions. But on >> powerpc bootable cdroms use APM >> >> >> > > > -- > > Regards > Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > -- 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
