On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 02:43:19PM -0400, Andrew Clausen wrote: > > Or we can attempt to read a given file when we expect it's there. For > > example, if we're looking for /boot/grub/, we can tell "/boot/grub" to the > > filesystem layer, so that it will require it as a precondition. > > I can see that that would work will for some use cases...
Most importantly, it's a net win. If we know a file is there, there's no harm in requiring that the filesystem driver is capable of reading it. It's a pity, because we already had this check, and we were forced to disable it. Would you like to help us restore it? I can give more details. > I think this is very important: I spent hours trying to [...] Nobody questions that. It certainly is very important to me, but even then, we should look for solutions that are good in long-term. When using heuristics, if one's not careful can end up in a slippery slope, in which adding an heuristic fixes a problem at the cost of introducing a new one, and then you can only fix that by adding yet another heuristic (which can be repeated ad nauseam). -- 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
