From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DB33K-0003Mr-2c for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:49:06 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DB33E-0003LY-IK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:49:00 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DB311-0002tn-Nj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:46:58 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DB30t-0002sa-SX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:46:35 -0500 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DB2UY-0005cr-0B for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:13:10 -0500 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77DBFEFA3C4 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:13:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 15 Mar 05 03:13:05 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:13:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <200503080205.34053.okuji@enbug.org> <87wtscexg2.fsf@student.han.nl> In-Reply-To: <87wtscexg2.fsf@student.han.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503150413.05027.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: auto-loading of commands X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:49:01 -0000 On Saturday 12 March 2005 03:43 pm, Marco Gerards wrote: > Would it be possible to give filesystems priorities for loader and > detecting? > > For example some filesystems like UFS2 probe a lot of blocks to see if > it has the superblock. This should have a lower priority than > filesystems that only load block 0, 1 or 2 because those blocks are > cached anyway. Possible, but I suspect that it has no good effect. When you load filesystem modules, GRUB will access several blocks even if caching is efficient. The overhead of trying to mount UFS2 is only 4 accesses. So my feeling is that this would be negligible. Anyway, I will implement a simple one first. If it looks too slow, we can improve it later. Okuji