Re: Some ideas about new features of grub

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 04:48:56PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> 
> Read/Write file system support
> We can implement two kind of fs drivers. The boot time driver is
> read-only, but after entering normal mode, we can optionally load
> another driver for write support. This approach has been used by EFI.
> For example, it has a default FAT driver, but you can also load an
> extended FAT driver
> later.

This would have to be post-1.97, but as long as they're not enabled by
default in the build system, I really don't mind.  What does everyone
else think?

What we can't accept is making core functionality rely on rw filesystem
drivers.

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Robert Millan

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