From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MfCba-0000Cs-0t for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:55:30 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfCbU-0000Bm-QO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:55:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MfCbP-00009u-N3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:55:24 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35692 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MfCbP-00009b-2M for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:55:19 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:60426 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 1MfCbO-0007rt-KN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:55:18 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfCbN-0008Ow-0m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:55:17 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MfCbM-0005o1-5J for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:55:16 +0200 Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:55:16 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090823125516.GA22272@thorin> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: efault in the build system, I really don't mind. What does everyone 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: Some ideas about new features of grub 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, 23 Aug 2009 12:55:27 -0000 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. -- 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."