Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 07:49:03PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Actually I had this idea before but haven't had any time to implement > or think more about it. This would be useful for massive multi-OS > environment since fuse is available on many platforms but many of FS > drivers

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:18:50AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:07:48PM +0800, Bean wrote: > > Actually I've considered this before. My goal is to add a mini FUSE fs > > interface so that it can have read/write support in grub2 ! > > I'm actively uninterested in write su

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/7 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko : > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Colin Watson wrote: >> os-prober mounts filesystems using Linux's filesystem drivers. This of >> course means that we have to go to special lengths to avoid replaying >> journals (we don't yet, but we should), we have to lo

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > os-prober mounts filesystems using Linux's filesystem drivers. This of > course means that we have to go to special lengths to avoid replaying > journals (we don't yet, but we should), we have to load huge piles of > filesystem modules, etc. >

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Bean
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:39:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Colin Watson wrote: >> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:07:48PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> >> Actually I've considered this before. My goal is to add a mini FUSE fs

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/9/7 Colin Watson : > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:39:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Colin Watson wrote: >> > The level of functionality provided by the existing filesystem modules >> > would be quite sufficient. >> >> Oh I see, you mean the other way around, using th

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:39:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:07:48PM +0800, Bean wrote: > >> Actually I've considered this before. My goal is to add a mini FUSE fs > >> interface so that it can have read/write support in

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Bean
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:07:48PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> Actually I've considered this before. My goal is to add a mini FUSE fs >> interface so that it can have read/write support in grub2 ! > > I'm actively uninterested in write support; in thi

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:07:48PM +0800, Bean wrote: > Actually I've considered this before. My goal is to add a mini FUSE fs > interface so that it can have read/write support in grub2 ! I'm actively uninterested in write support; in this case it would do much more harm than good. > Of course,

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Bean
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > os-prober mounts filesystems using Linux's filesystem drivers. This of > course means that we have to go to special lengths to avoid replaying > journals (we don't yet, but we should), we have to load huge piles of > filesystem modules, etc. > >

Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
os-prober mounts filesystems using Linux's filesystem drivers. This of course means that we have to go to special lengths to avoid replaying journals (we don't yet, but we should), we have to load huge piles of filesystem modules, etc. Today's crazy idea was to implement a FUSE wrapper for grub-fs