From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FHpPK-0002g3-Ro for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:44:22 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FHpPI-0002XT-Ef for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:44:20 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FHpPF-0002Nx-8U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:44:19 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHpPE-0002Mw-K7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:44:17 -0500 Received: from [194.109.24.27] (helo=smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FHpSb-00056D-Jx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:47:45 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k2ALiEK2022886 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:44:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <44107EAC.5030300@yahoo.com> From: Marco Gerards Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:44:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: <44107EAC.5030300@yahoo.com> (technologypages@yahoo.com's message of "Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:14:52 +0200") Message-ID: <874q26ug9b.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:44:21 -0000 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. -- Marco