From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: grub-mkrescue and hard links
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:36:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091120133620.GA5413@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091119222257.GA1189@pina.cat>
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:22:57PM +0000, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> grub-mkrescue is trying to execute cp -dpRl (l for link). If the origin
> and destination directories are in different file systems this fails.
One of the purposes of grub-mkrescue is to generate images that are bootable
using GRUB. These images might be complete CDs or DVDs, making a complete
copy very undesireable.
I think I'd rather remove the copiing stage altogether and operate on the
original directory (this is not so strange, e.g. -boot-info-table in
mkisofs also modifies original data and is widely used).
--
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."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-20 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-19 22:22 grub-mkrescue and hard links Carles Pina i Estany
2009-11-20 13:36 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-11-21 1:54 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2009-11-21 13:14 ` Robert Millan
2009-11-21 11:39 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-11-21 11:50 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2009-11-21 13:25 ` Robert Millan
2009-11-21 13:24 ` Robert Millan
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