Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-10-26 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 08:59:14PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 6:23 AM Daniel Kiper wrote: > > > > At this point I am not fully convinced the /boot/grub should be on > > a separate filesystem. Though after going through this thread it seems > > to me we should add full wri

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-09-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 6:23 AM Daniel Kiper wrote: > > At this point I am not fully convinced the /boot/grub should be on > a separate filesystem. Though after going through this thread it seems > to me we should add full write support to the GRUB for a simple file > system. The FAT looks like a

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-07-28 Thread Daniel Kiper
CC-ing a few folks who may be interested in this thread... First of all, sorry for late reply but I am really busy. I hope I will be able to reply in more timely manner starting from now. On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 04:08:45PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 2:59 AM Michael Chang

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-05-27 Thread Michael Chang via Grub-devel
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 03:49:14PM -0300, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote: > This was already discussed in this ML a couple of times. > > It is not uncommon for some FS to have an unused header space. This > happens for btrfs and SUSE patches grub2 to use it: > https://build.opensuse.org/package/v

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-05-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:49 PM Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote: > > My proposal would be an additional source for grubenv. SUSE still uses > the FS /boot/grub2/grubenv to store a > env_block variable (as well as other variables) that, if present, will > point to where an additional grubenv shoul

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-05-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 2:59 AM Michael Chang wrote: > > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 08:36:05PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > So is the next era going to be we recommend /boot on FAT? > > No. I meant a new partition type only for grubenv files and keep > everything else as is. The filesystem can be e

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-05-27 Thread Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
This was already discussed in this ML a couple of times. It is not uncommon for some FS to have an unused header space. This happens for btrfs and SUSE patches grub2 to use it: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/grub2/grub2-grubenv-in-btrfs-header.patch?expand=1. It is a

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-05-27 Thread Michael Chang via Grub-devel
On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 08:36:05PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 3:17 AM Michael Chang via Grub-devel > wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 04:58:23PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > It's not possible for GRUB pre-boot environment to write to grubenv > >

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-05-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 3:17 AM Michael Chang via Grub-devel wrote: > > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 04:58:23PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It's not possible for GRUB pre-boot environment to write to grubenv > > when it's on Btrfs, ZFS, LVM, mdadm raid, or LUKS. Also, at least XFS > > up

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-05-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 2:08 AM Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 04:58:23PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It's not possible for GRUB pre-boot environment to write to grubenv > > when it's on Btrfs, ZFS, LVM, mdadm raid, or LUKS. Also, at least XFS > > upstream

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-05-26 Thread Michael Chang via Grub-devel
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 04:58:23PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Hi, > > It's not possible for GRUB pre-boot environment to write to grubenv > when it's on Btrfs, ZFS, LVM, mdadm raid, or LUKS. Also, at least XFS > upstream is super skeptical of anything except kernel code making any > kind of modi

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-05-26 Thread Toomas Soome via Grub-devel
> On 26. May 2021, at 11:07, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > wrote: > > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 04:58:23PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It's not possible for GRUB pre-boot environment to write to grubenv >> when it's on Btrfs, ZFS, LVM, mdadm raid, or LUKS. Also, at least XFS >> upstream i

Re: RFC: A partition for grubenv, etc.

2021-05-26 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 04:58:23PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Hi, > > It's not possible for GRUB pre-boot environment to write to grubenv > when it's on Btrfs, ZFS, LVM, mdadm raid, or LUKS. Also, at least XFS > upstream is super skeptical of anything except kernel code making any > kind of modi