From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve ext2 driver to allow embedding of the boot loader code.
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:28:04 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA91j0V3rnjgAZFehAppeCS+9JjVvmZb3XRhA0b-foY3j-=hKw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DE2C79.2000507@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder'
Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10.01.2014 08:49, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck wrote:
>>
>> The blocklist is fixed and stable and will never change.
> What guarantees that it won't change on grub-setup invocation? I'm under
> impression that it will change on every grub-setup invocation as file
> gets recreated.
>
If I read code correctly, it checks current size and if new core.img
fits, space is reused. So we could effectively make it preallocate
reasonable size (or even unreasonable - I guess 10MB will be enough
for foreseeable future) the very first time it is done.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-21 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 21:07 [PATCH] Improve ext2 driver to allow embedding of the boot loader code Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
2014-01-09 22:52 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-01-10 7:49 ` Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
2014-01-21 8:14 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-01-21 8:28 ` Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
2014-01-21 8:32 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-01-21 8:41 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2014-01-21 11:03 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-01-21 19:55 ` Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
2014-02-01 7:23 ` Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
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