From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MQltx-0007ld-39 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:34:49 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQltu-0007j9-5D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:34:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MQlto-0007hE-Vl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:34:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47950 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQlto-0007hB-Qn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:34:40 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:22540) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MQlto-0000uv-Ch for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:34:40 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MQltn-0004eo-3y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:34:39 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MQkod-0000Zb-8g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:25:17 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MQltZ-0002ju-Nr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:34:25 +0200 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:34:25 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090714173425.GA10523@thorin> References: <15498-60872@sneakemail.com> <1247005027.3393.82.camel@mj> <20090710171542.GC17114@thorin> <20090712093001.dtfy4tubwo08408s-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090712093001.dtfy4tubwo08408s-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: boot.img Fix 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, 14 Jul 2009 17:34:46 -0000 On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:30:01AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Quoting Robert Millan : > >> I agree GRUB should be very careful not to destroy potentially valuable >> data. However, that's not to say FAT install is important. Typically >> our install doesn't collide or interfere with any filesystem, it's only >> a few corner cases that do, and IMO we should try to discourage those. >> >> But of course, destroying someone's filesystem is not the right way to >> discourage something :-) > > I think installing to the first (or any) sector of a filesystem not > known specifically to allow that should at least require --force. Agreed. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."