On 09/28/2010 08:45 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 9/28/2010 12:36 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>
>> My branch uses every available sector for redundancy info. So if you
>> have 2*n sectors left in MBR gap you can survive n corrupted sectors.
>>
> You might want to place a
On 9/28/2010 12:36 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> My branch uses every available sector for redundancy info. So if you
> have 2*n sectors left in MBR gap you can survive n corrupted sectors.
You might want to place a reasonable limit on that. With conventional
62 sector gaps t
On 09/28/2010 05:26 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:13:40AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
>
>> On 9/27/2010 7:34 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>
>>> FlexNet and similar like to write to track 0 sectors (outside partitioned
>>> space) to store license info. This clobbers pa
On 9/27/2010 7:34 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> FlexNet and similar like to write to track 0 sectors (outside partitioned
> space) to store license info. This clobbers part of grub potentially.
> So to make grub more tolerant of such misbehaviour, the idea suggested
> was to add error correction t
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:13:40AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 9/27/2010 7:34 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > FlexNet and similar like to write to track 0 sectors (outside partitioned
> > space) to store license info. This clobbers part of grub potentially.
> > So to make grub more tolerant of
You can see a explanation at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-09/msg00205.html
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 05:10:23PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 9/27/2010 12:12 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> >> So you are adding bit error detection and correction to the boot loader?
> >> You realize that the hard disk already does reed-solomon right? So a
> >> second layer of it doesn't seem t
On 9/27/2010 12:12 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
>> So you are adding bit error detection and correction to the boot loader?
>> You realize that the hard disk already does reed-solomon right? So a
>> second layer of it doesn't seem to have much point.
>
> You're missing context.
Apparently. Fill me
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:10:44AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 9/25/2010 4:25 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > Hello, all. I've just finished Reed-Solomon and pushedit to
> > branches/solomon. About 8 sectors (including MBR) aren't protected by
> > Reed-Solomon. Obviously it
On 9/25/2010 4:25 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Hello, all. I've just finished Reed-Solomon and pushedit to
> branches/solomon. About 8 sectors (including MBR) aren't protected by
> Reed-Solomon. Obviously it can be improved but that would be for post-1.99
So you are adding bi
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