Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:53:23PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >>>> We may want to embed more in the future. Actually I think it's not >>>> ad-hoc. Basically partition map defines a function which gives back >>>> the sectors available for embedding. >>>> >>> Is embedding useful elsewhere? >>> >> Yes. Consider a world of checksummed filesystems. In such world you >> can't change the contents of the file by just writing to its blocklist >> since it will break the checksum. Similar problems exist with RAIDs >> and LVMs. On some systems we can't put grub-env in a file. For these >> cases we can embed grub-env somewhere where we can write it with ease >> > > Ok. Feel free to use partmap/ then. But please make sure #ifdefs only > enable those functions where they are going to be used. That'd be > GRUB_MACHINE_PCBIOS for now, if later code in other ports relies on them, > this can be changed. > > This patch fixes an important bug - namely overwriting extended partition tables
-- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
