Re: A question...

[Herbert Szumovski]

I think the block adressing in the chainloader is meant.
/herbert


At 16:29 06.12.2002, Yury Umanets wrote:
>Hi GRUB hackers,
>
>I have a question.
>
>GRUB documentation contains the following text:
>
>Support multiple filesystem types
>   Support multiple filesystem types transparently, plus a useful
>   explicit blocklist notation. The currently supported filesystem
>   types are "BSD FFS", "DOS FAT16 and FAT32", "Minix fs", "Linux
>   ext2fs", "ReiserFS", "JFS", "XFS", and "VSTa fs". *Note
>
>
>What does "blocklist notation" means? I as understand it correct, by reading 
>code, GRUB does not builds list of blocks like LILO. And it is okay, because 
>not the all filesystems stores file data in the unformated blocks (as you know 
>reiserfs has direct items for small files, which stored inside the tree).
>
>GRUB does some kind of mounting and reads file from the corresponding 
>filesystem instead.
>
>-- 
>Yury Umanets