From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: embedding filesystems in core image (Re: moving ata initialisation to a command)
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:27:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712221327.03951.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071222112425.GC4788@thorin>
On Saturday 22 December 2007 12:24, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 12:28:26PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> > Yes, i think this concept is great, and i just think of an improvement
> > for the module.
>
> I don't like the idea of making memdisk filesystem-dependant. But adding
> a more size-oriented filesystem to GRUB would be nice of course.
>
> > we can add support for a raw file system which store
> > files compactly, so that very little space is wasted on file system
> > structure, for example, this is a possible implementation:
> >
> > OFFSET_TO_NEXT_ITEM
> > FILE1_NAME_LEN
> > FILE1_NAME
> > FILE1_DATA
> > OFFSET_TO_NEXT_ITEM
> > FILE2_NAME_LEN
> > FILE2_NAME
> > FILE2_DATA
>
> How about tar? If we use an existing fs, we get the user tools for free.
How about using cpio, just like initrd? IIRC, cpio is easier to modify later,
so we have a plenty of room to play with.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-22 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-16 15:30 moving ata initialisation to a command Robert Millan
2007-12-16 15:58 ` Christian Franke
2007-12-16 16:06 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2007-12-16 16:19 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-17 15:52 ` Marco Gerards
2007-12-17 16:01 ` Marco Gerards
2007-12-17 18:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-12-17 19:01 ` Marco Gerards
2007-12-20 17:38 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-20 17:36 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-21 16:47 ` Marco Gerards
2007-12-21 18:04 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-21 20:54 ` embedding filesystems in core image (Re: moving ata initialisation to a command) Robert Millan
2007-12-22 4:28 ` Bean
2007-12-22 11:24 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-22 12:27 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2007-12-22 12:18 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-22 12:24 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2007-12-23 18:44 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-16 20:10 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-20 23:21 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-24 8:29 ` Bean
2007-12-24 13:09 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-24 13:27 ` Bean
2007-12-24 16:24 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-24 16:44 ` Bean
2008-01-02 19:56 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-26 8:00 ` embedding data in ELF " Robert Millan
2008-01-02 18:21 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-12-26 7:57 ` avoid firmware in grub-mkrescue " Robert Millan
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