From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1U7uP2-0004Lv-E2 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:07:04 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35794) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7t8o-0003oq-EW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:46:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7t8g-0002Ic-Rx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:46:14 -0500 Received: from dgate10.ts.fujitsu.com ([80.70.172.49]:43040) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U7t8g-0002IC-HM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:46:06 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: s=s1536a; d=ts.fujitsu.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=X-SBRSScore:X-IronPort-AV:Received:X-IronPort-AV: Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Organization:User-Agent: MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=aBsP1jzhTpLhZs2HiS+tCXsaH5KiRwsIC2K1RFDrcuW0tAGhPEsC5NHD 2Z4uXWX5t2JN4SxoxnngFSWhDCscClOndyyUhqKdSQoqHZcGzGUHRFL7M kT7FlXbNNHseixjNm5Hk7rTXmLJvVU0unRKT/pJCbLzsPBP3QJ7u49vWH tNpZOsFZ9LaJJ5noi4nGhsnhqO4RZoHZBdrUginENrQtbLKne91dNt+sx 4pVW8hz0uiHI2O+h4ZLGt+Ehezl2V; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=ts.fujitsu.com; i=@ts.fujitsu.com; q=dns/txt; s=s1536b; t=1361303166; x=1392839166; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject: references:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DgwTUxt+wWR2YM9RZRa8/dbv5PP8D7t404vFBk9sHz8=; b=JBjTsfRBjVsoMsxnb9TPrngqU6QDb93RdGqumb4xHoF5hwH6invpEpq5 8K/uAgHt4GOoRhmXdNDTJFjK72ylktUfteLeOoJ9GnBNqwUwKot2+zRIW oZqhX0OnAGyeYLlpb6Gt4PwIjPnDPEK4VFLXSCpi7dRv46wzsK+jJZe8H NP8lsMj3aKVq3DMIE+HLaIz/ZeShQiBDDkvDi2eSlJQTmV4OA0rpdqSnQ UREyTTjU+ry2WYndJ9hYErqehzpiY; X-SBRSScore: None X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,697,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="137422086" Received: from unknown (HELO abgdate50u.abg.fsc.net) ([172.25.138.66]) by dgate10u.abg.fsc.net with ESMTP; 19 Feb 2013 20:46:04 +0100 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,697,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="4486432" Received: from unknown (HELO cooper.psw.pdbps.fsc.net) ([172.25.253.64]) by abgdate50u.abg.fsc.net with ESMTP; 19 Feb 2013 20:46:04 +0100 Message-ID: <5123D67C.8060508@ts.fujitsu.com> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:46:04 +0100 From: Martin Wilck Organization: Fujitsu Technology Solutions User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Murphy Subject: Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX References: <51138645.4050405@ts.fujitsu.com> <51153345.2020509@ts.fujitsu.com> <0088990F-66E5-4F51-A9C4-3BD8963A6DA0@colorremedies.com> <512261FE.2090604@ts.fujitsu.com> <51233C23.1040602@ts.fujitsu.com> <8E67E80F-8B05-4465-B70C-5FF1BB9FEEC0@colorremedies.com> In-Reply-To: <8E67E80F-8B05-4465-B70C-5FF1BB9FEEC0@colorremedies.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.70.172.49 Cc: The development of GNU GRUB X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:07:02 -0000 On 02/19/2013 07:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> The biggest argument for Fedora not being able to do this has been the >> claimed danger of block list corruption. > The biggest argument is: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826#c10 Sorry, I see nothing in that comment that I'd call an argument. >> That's the only aspect of this discussion that is worth bothering the >> GRUB developers with. The validity of my use case should be discussed >> elsewhere. > > anaconda-devel-list@redhat.com Well I'd rather follow up on bugzilla. Apologies to everyone that the discussion went off-topic for this list. Martin -- Dr. Martin Wilck PRIMERGY System Software Engineer x86 Server Engineering FUJITSU Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 33106 Paderborn, Germany Phone: ++49 5251 525 2796 Fax: ++49 5251 525 2820 Email: martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com Internet: http://ts.fujitsu.com Company Details: http://ts.fujitsu.com/imprint