From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K24g2-0001f6-1B for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:29:50 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K24g0-0001e3-62 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:29:48 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K24fz-0001dm-FA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:29:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50158 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K24fz-0001dj-D6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:29:47 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:42572) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K24fy-0004JW-Sc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 09:29:47 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K24fX-0003HC-Qi for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 15:29:20 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K24fo-0000OO-61 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 15:29:36 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:29:36 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080530132936.GC962@thorin> References: <20080528135402.GE26495@thorin> <20080529095812.GA28156@thorin> <57693.195.113.21.148.1212062759.squirrel@drak.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <57693.195.113.21.148.1212062759.squirrel@drak.ucw.cz> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] Scan root device dynamically at startup 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: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:29:48 -0000 On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:05:59PM +0200, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > > Every FAT has serial number, generated when first formating of partition, > it is only 4 bytes, so it is not as unique as UUID but it suffices. > > Other filesystems often have similar identifiers. Now that we have a framework for filesystem UUIDs, it should be simple to support FAT serial numbers like it is done in the ext2 driver. If you're familiar with FAT, would you like to help us on this? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)