From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Md2rc-00021W-KC for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:07:09 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Md2ra-00020w-2H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:07:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Md2rW-0001xY-24 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:07:05 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43263 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Md2rV-0001xU-Nj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:07:01 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:53950 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 1Md2rU-0005nE-A0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:07:01 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Md2rS-0005eK-D8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:06:58 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Md2rR-0000Om-OR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:06:57 +0200 Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:06:57 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090817140657.GP32551@thorin> References: <20090802220236.GG15139@thorin> <20090802222505.GI15139@thorin> <20090804201512.GA15811@thorin> 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: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:07:06 -0000 On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:00:52PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Rediff and few fixes Please note that after what we discussed on IRC, we need to find a solution that wouldn't make boot time increase linearly with the number of filesystems or partmaps GRUB supports. I really think supporting every sort of combination is too extreme. For example who would want an msdos/msdos chain? OpenSolaris creates one, but it's a false positive. The overall idea *is* nice. Some combinations (e.g. msdos/bsd) are cleaner this way, but supporting everything doesn't scale well. Perhaps we can explicitly list which combinations make sense? So when an msdos label is found, its partitions are probed for bsd labels too, but not for msdos labels again, etc. -- 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."