From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MpKUr-0006Gk-A6 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:22:25 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MpKUp-0006GA-NS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:22:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MpKUk-0006FL-Iu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:22:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40204 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MpKUk-0006FI-EE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:22:18 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:54699 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 1MpKUk-0003LY-1A for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:22:18 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MpKUh-00059w-Q1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:22:16 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MpKUg-000130-5N for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:22:14 +0200 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:22:14 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090920112214.GA3971@thorin> References: <20090914153537.GB25403@thorin> <20090919211049.GB16223@thorin> <20090919220917.GE13423@riva.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090919220917.GE13423@riva.ucam.org> 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]: Save boot record before writing to the dest_drive 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, 20 Sep 2009 11:22:23 -0000 On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:09:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:10:49PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > I'm sorry, but I really see very limited usefulness in this. It's only > > potentially useful to expert users, but those should know how to backup > > sectors in their disk already. > > Of course, like many restore facilities, it's only useful if you > remembered or realised that you needed to do the backup before the data > was overwritten ... > > It would be nice to have a straightforward answer to the sort of bug > report that goes "argh, I installed Debian/Ubuntu and it ate the special > magic boot loader I carefully installed there five years ago", I must > admin. So your point is that if backup is done automatically, this would be useful when dealing with users who didn't plan ahead? Seems reasonable. -- 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."