From: Alessandro Rubini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [patch] correctly deal with linux/minix
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:12:05 +0200
> They definitely are not. If they were there would be an ID for
> Reiserfs, for ext3 etc, and there would be no "this or that" entries.
I must admit that partition types are not used correctly in reality,
but that doesn't mean that they are not authoritative. For example,
there is no way to detect extended partitions correctly without
partition types. Then, why Reiserfs (or ext3, etc.) doesn't have a
partition type for itself? I bet that the answer is that the
developers are lazy. Perhaps they are living in the "if it works with
Linux fine, it is okay" world. This tendency can quite often be seen
in Linux fanatics (as well as many corporations such as Microsoft).
> I am not strongly against your choice, but it adds unneeded
> complication, in my opinion.
I'm still not sure if we should remove the checks or not, but I'd
like to leave them intact for now. Let's discuss the issue in the
future.
> Please leave this code conditional with a configure option, I don't
> think grub should do that because it's not its task, just like "ls"
> doesn't print free disk space. To get a full recovery tool you'll load
> a kernel and filesystem from floppy. Grub is aboot loader, not an OS.
> , and I don't want to enlarge my grub image to support this.
His idea is not for recovery purpose. See the archive of this
list. I agree that the function should be optional, though (but not
because of your reason).
Okuji
