From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1c5qtq-0002Mu-4U for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 04:16:30 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41516) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5qto-0002Mn-47 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 04:16:29 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5qtk-00044V-Vo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 04:16:28 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-x242.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::242]:35851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c5qtk-000445-KH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 04:16:24 -0500 Received: by mail-lf0-x242.google.com with SMTP id o20so4395635lfg.3 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 01:16:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kC+QT3Ev0cdGiwKZipB6ZjBNItkUgSL6+S2L+u7oLl8=; b=uKkysCL8nXZ9TuP6JbU51h/sbjqLPhpJI+kaKXbJ3No4ycIxRpqbP2D8CxLKNID+D7 RbCOIZX6hgA1aJyt/1otM4T8if/3A/Sm/fotDMM5RDKL5T3Uwv1ZcI0HtrH4OvrdCr8a 8wU2ZGR+pHo9yB4AGu4yqF8/na39AytvzvuwrocI4LnLGZv3vv7ezo5CjcVphtc1ME5f 70yqrXOOnOSdLLV/9S32Cr4vUuy8R/3Aku1pzp+z//UEi1QD3R+BOHDaxnVmwbHekVkH ZAXQMyktWXl48plBbkYODCAIfHRaZvtNr3dU2zE+d97NAxe2RIHhpC8UKOvF+Sx1UCIy fR9w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:to:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kC+QT3Ev0cdGiwKZipB6ZjBNItkUgSL6+S2L+u7oLl8=; b=GoOSkixTcK++zIWDmIA0KqoipM5uN+RpkwWS/h9LvFvBZK+5V/sOMthtxE9TRTj9ve TpRKVldatO+6yGNKietKyMC2XBbjpFd3XZEtQO6tsVsjq9y3GojGQtMd5/ukH7RTuwpw aReo1wFtKUoacJkjoYKcbq6xMCSR1J39GEiwxTNP+vcic99QdasKp4FPDIF2Q/Nsy1vN 08/G6lZqwqTfOiH7uQjOY+XYHWdg9Cn/cR/udoPDHCBlBJOPWxD+XHAY2Dymm78h/Fvv uf4AK7EWDlt9qUaftlEur4yUre0B8M84CdEdw+B4oNQAXDXDpMU26/1Fy58CHNHzv/yr Gyvg== X-Gm-Message-State: ABUngvdA6aAL+gidduKh9PtQ7hOt/b8HwfQzn073CT/0b6JMalyvCWWqRREdPc/VWZcxAA== X-Received: by 10.25.93.84 with SMTP id p20mr1312395lfj.151.1479028581526; Sun, 13 Nov 2016 01:16:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.44] (ppp109-252-90-55.pppoe.spdop.ru. [109.252.90.55]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c66sm3950764ljd.44.2016.11.13.01.16.20 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 13 Nov 2016 01:16:20 -0800 (PST) To: The development of GNU GRUB From: Andrei Borzenkov Subject: [RFD] Support for installing on XFS partition? Message-ID: Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 12:16:20 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c07::242 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 09:16:29 -0000 Syslinux MBR supports booting off XFS partition by adjusting PBR offset (see http://repo.or.cz/syslinux.git/commit/4298786ca19e9121568ecd4cc8b79d276ccfd24a). Is it worth to support? This can only work if Syslinux MBR is actually installed, so it would give false sense success in all other cases. OTOH this could enable chainloading off XFS by explicitly loading PBR from this offset using - probably, any - bootloader.