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



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