Re: GRUB writing to grubenv outside of kernel fs code

[Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

18.09.2018 21:57, Chris Murphy пишет:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 18.09.2018 08:37, Chris Murphy пишет:
> 
>>> The patches aren't upstream yet? Will they be?
>>>
>>
>> I do not know. Personally I think much easier is to make grub location
>> independent of /boot, allowing grub be installed in separate partition.
>> This automatically covers all other cases (like MD, LVM etc).
> 
> The only case where I'm aware of this happens is Fedora on UEFI where
> they write grubenv and grub.cfg on the FAT ESP. I'm pretty sure
> upstream expects grubenv and grub.cfg at /boot/grub and I haven't ever
> seen it elsewhere (except Fedora on UEFI).
> 
> I'm not sure this is much easier. Yet another volume that would be
> persistently mounted? Where? A nested mount at /boot/grub? I'm not
> liking that at all. Even Windows and macOS have saner and simpler to
> understand booting methods than this.
> 
> 
That's exactly what Windows ended up with - separate boot volume with
bootloader related files.