From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Justin Cormack <justin@street-vision.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?)
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:24:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F64A46B.4050702@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030914190121.G3371@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:15:27PM +0100, Justin Cormack wrote:
>>If you need to know your bootdisk (why?) why not just get the bootloader
>>to tell you?
> I am not quite sure why anybody would like to know what the bootdisk was.
> The rootdisk, yes, that we need. But the bootdisk?
> Finding it is nontrivial in general. Letting the bootloader tell us
> is also nontrivial.
The bootloader or mkinitrd typically tells the kernel what the root disk
is, so that's not a big deal. The boot disk, OTOH, is tough. Right
now, we just assume the sysadmin knows what's he's doing, when he
installs lilo or grub on a disk. You care about the boot disk when
installing lilo... maybe there are similar situations too which I do not
recall. As Alan said, besides EDD (only on newer boxes) there's really
nothing.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-14 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-13 20:16 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?) James Bottomley
2003-09-13 21:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 11:15 ` Justin Cormack
2003-09-14 15:02 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-14 16:55 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-09-14 17:01 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-14 17:24 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-09-14 18:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-16 2:38 ` Thomas Molina
2003-09-16 13:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-14 17:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 16:12 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-14 17:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 2:11 ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-14 22:26 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 6:05 ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-15 22:16 ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-15 3:23 ` Andre Hedrick
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-13 11:01 DMA for ide-scsi? Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-13 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 18:49 ` 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?) Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 19:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 19:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-15 7:34 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-16 19:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-16 19:55 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-20 18:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-20 22:16 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-20 22:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-20 22:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-21 9:23 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-13 19:24 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-09-13 19:57 ` Jeff Garzik
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