Re: R: Re: R: Re: CAN GRUB DO WRITING OPERATIONS ON ATTACHED DRIVES ?

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:38:33PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> I've read with interest your reply and i gave a look at the grub code.
> 
> You wrote an important assertion: "GRUB intentionally has no filesystem 
> writing support".
> 
> So, the writing operations that grub can do, only be sent to a pre-allocated 
> memory regions of the disk different in any case from that allocated by the 
> OS for the filesystem, where the user data are stored.
> 
> This means that grub never can corrupt the user data.
> 
> Please, can you confirm if this my conclusion is right ?   Because is this 
> the crucial question i need to solve.

I would never want to rule out the possibility of strange bugs, but that
is certainly the design.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden