Re: chmod of generated grub.cfg

2009-09-07 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 20:21 -0500 schrieb richardvo...@gmail.com: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' > Serbinenko wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 02:29:03PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > >>> Currently grub-mkconfig

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

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. > >

[GITGRUB] New menu interface (second draft)

2009-09-07 Thread Bean
Hi, After considering the discussion of first post, I come up with the second draft for new menu interface implementation. First, the basic drawing unit is now region, there are four types: text Single line of text, have alignment attribute. image An image, have scaling and alignment attribute.

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 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 06:39:13PM +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 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 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 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 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

~3TB ext4 volume not read correctly by ext2-fs driver in GRUB2

2009-09-07 Thread Tony Vroon
Ladies and gentlemen, It would appear that the ext2-fs driver is not reliably able to read directories on my ~3TB / filesystem: /dev/root 3.4T 1.7T 1.6T 52% / /dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered) Whilst doing some troubleshooting over IRC, I was given a debu

Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

2009-09-07 Thread Bean
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 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 replay