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From: "Grégoire Sutre" <gregoire.sutre@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nested partitions
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:25:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B5D5588.4080503@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100124204118.GA10054@thorin>

Robert Millan wrote:

> With this approach, the burden is no longer in GRUB.  Then I don't care
> how weird disk layouts can become, because GRUB doesn't have to probe
> them.  We can even support things like this if it makes users happy:
> 
>   (hd0,bsd2,msdos1,sun1,apple4,msdos1)

I like this generic approach very much.  And as you said, in 
non-straightforward disk layouts, the responsibility of finding the 
appropriate path to access a given partition is left to the user.

In all generality, the links between labels is a graph, for instance in 
your example above, the two occurrences of msdos1 could be the same 
partition.  How does the probing code work regarding this?  Does 
partition_iterate terminate if the graph has cycles?

Grégoire



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-25  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-11 15:51 [PATCH] nested partitions Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-16 20:52 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-31  7:58   ` Marco Gerards
2009-07-31  9:39     ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-31 19:48       ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-31 20:25         ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-02 22:17         ` Robert Millan
2009-08-02 22:36           ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-02 22:02   ` Robert Millan
2009-08-02 22:09     ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-02 22:25       ` Robert Millan
2009-08-02 22:44         ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-04 20:15           ` Robert Millan
2009-08-17 13:00             ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-17 14:06               ` Robert Millan
2009-08-17 14:34                 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-23 22:57                   ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-24 13:39                     ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-25 20:14                       ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-25 23:07                         ` Robert Millan
2009-08-25 23:13                           ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-26  0:50                             ` Robert Millan
2009-08-25 20:35                       ` Seth Goldberg
2009-08-25 21:12                         ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-22 16:53                           ` Robert Millan
2010-01-22 18:03                             ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-24 20:41                               ` Robert Millan
2010-01-24 21:20                                 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-25  7:23                                   ` Robert Millan
2010-01-25  0:38                                 ` Bruce Dubbs
2010-01-25  4:56                                   ` Michal Suchanek
2010-01-25  7:31                                   ` Robert Millan
2010-01-25  7:52                                     ` Robert Millan
2010-01-25  8:25                                 ` Grégoire Sutre [this message]
2010-01-22 18:43                             ` Seth Goldberg
2010-01-24 20:44                               ` Robert Millan

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