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Re: mkfs command in grub
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: mkfs command in grub |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:44:16 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden writes:
> Can someone please comment if adding filesystem creation support to
> grub is reasonable.
>
> Please see the rationale at
> http://www.geocities.com/technologypages/grub-mkfs.txt
>
> Will the developers consider adding this feature? It is rather easy to
> implement as far as I can see -- only glue for external filesystem
> creation code needs to be added.
Personally I do not like glue code at all. And creating the
filesystems like fat and swap is quite trivial, I think.
> Although the swap sharing use case discussed in the rationale is
> trivial, it is a common problem that may bring many multi-OS users
> over to GRUB 2 and create positive "media coverage" (if that feature
> will be added).
Right...
I think it is easy to implement this feature, and agree it might be
useful in the cases you described. I wonder how the other developers
think about including such feature.
--
Marco
- mkfs command in grub, technologypages, 2006/03/09
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- Re: mkfs command in grub, Vesa Jääskeläinen, 2006/03/11
- Re: mkfs command in grub, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2006/03/11
- Re: mkfs command in grub, Marco Gerards, 2006/03/11
- Re: mkfs command in grub, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2006/03/11
- Re: mkfs command in grub, Marco Gerards, 2006/03/11
- Re: mkfs command in grub, Tomáš Ebenlendr, 2006/03/11
- Re: mkfs command in grub, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2006/03/12