On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:09:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > I'm sorry, but I really see very limited usefulness in this. It's only > > potentially useful to expert users, but those should know how to backup > > sectors in their disk already. > > Of course, like many restore facilities, it's only useful if you > remembered or realised that you needed to do the backup before the data > was overwritten ... > > It would be nice to have a straightforward answer to the sort of bug > report that goes "argh, I installed Debian/Ubuntu and it ate the special > magic boot loader I carefully installed there five years ago", I must > admin.
So your point is that if backup is done automatically, this would be useful when dealing with users who didn't plan ahead? Seems reasonable. -- 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
