From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FI06m-0003CQ-3K for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 04:09:56 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FI06k-0003CL-Qy for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 04:09:54 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FI06j-0003C8-RS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 04:09:54 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FI06j-0003C5-MR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 04:09:53 -0500 Received: from [157.24.2.30] (helo=smtp1.cc.lut.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FI0AD-0001Uu-IH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 04:13:29 -0500 Received: from localhost (smtp1 [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.cc.lut.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50A870048 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:09:52 +0200 (EET) Received: from smtp1.cc.lut.fi ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp1.cc.lut.fi [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00322-10 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:09:52 +0200 (EET) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (lk4-a-4-1.lnet.lut.fi [157.24.102.107]) by smtp1.cc.lut.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A5070027 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:09:52 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <441293EA.1020302@nic.fi> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:10:02 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vesa_J=E4=E4skel=E4inen?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <44107EAC.5030300@yahoo.com> <874q26ug9b.fsf@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <874q26ug9b.fsf@xs4all.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by lut.fi Subject: Re: mkfs command in 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: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:09:55 -0000 Marco Gerards wrote: > technologypages@yahoo.com writes: > >> Can someone please comment if adding filesystem creation support to >> grub is reasonable. >> >> Please see the rationale at >> http://www.geocities.com/technologypages/grub-mkfs.txt >> >> Will the developers consider adding this feature? It is rather easy to >> implement as far as I can see -- only glue for external filesystem >> creation code needs to be added. > > Personally I do not like glue code at all. And creating the > filesystems like fat and swap is quite trivial, I think. > >> Although the swap sharing use case discussed in the rationale is >> trivial, it is a common problem that may bring many multi-OS users >> over to GRUB 2 and create positive "media coverage" (if that feature >> will be added). > > Right... > > I think it is easy to implement this feature, and agree it might be > useful in the cases you described. I wonder how the other developers > think about including such feature. Well, GRUB2 supports modules. I do not see anything wrong on supplying mkfs module, but I would keep this out of normal file system code as it might cause some problems with "normal" users breaking their HD accidently. If we one day have a GRUB rescue CD image we could include this and perhaps other file system modification modules there.