From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MXjMj-0005uW-Pj for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:17:17 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXjMi-0005uL-JZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:17:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXjMd-0005os-0Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:17:15 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40070 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXjMc-0005ok-RR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:17:10 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:52930 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MXjMb-0003eI-Sp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:17:10 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MXjMa-0003dP-GB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:17:08 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MXjMZ-00053f-P8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:17:07 +0200 Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 00:17:07 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090802221707.GH15139@thorin> References: <87ab2lwafk.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] nested partitions 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: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:17:16 -0000 On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:48:21PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > The proble it doesn't solve is when 2 partition labels pretend to > describe the same region. Solaris during install dd'es MBR to its > partition that it subdivides in further paritions. This way the > parition seems to have 2 valid subpartitioning tables. I think the > most sane way to handle this is to introduce partition labels > priority. Priority lists sound like an overkill solution. In practice, how many times are we going to recurse at most? Does the same number apply to all partmap type combinations, or just some of them? -- 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."