Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

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On 08/20/2010 04:36 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2010-08-20 15:59, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
>
> > The solution should *not* be to teach the defrag tools about LILO. The
> > solution should be to fix any remaining bugs in GRUB.
>
> Right.
>
>
> > -Jeff
>
> > [1] yes, reiserfs has an ioctl for lilo to call to ensure that the tail
> > of a kernel image or initrd isn't packed so lilo can use it. That is a
> > hack too.
>
> Curious!
>
> Another method would be to mark those "unmovable" files with a special 
> attribute (MsDos has it), so
> that they are treated specially by the kernel and all tools that could touch 
> them.
>
>
>
> By the way, one of those bugs is that grub doesn't handle reiserfs well, it 
> is broken (and reported).
>
> (re s2disk, re booting on a stale filesystem: log has to re-played in memory, 
> and it does so in
> minutes, not seconds.)

Yeah, I started working on a fix for that and probably have it lying
around somewhere.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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