On Wed, 19.03.14 13:13, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > I agree, although I go farther. The EFI System partition doesn't > scale, isn't resilient, can neither be mirrored nor easily sync'd > (multidevice boot). It should be considered a pre-boot and OS > installer domain only.
You know, the ESP is actually FAT, one of the simplest, best-understood, most used, and most stable file systems around. Sure, one can always break things, but it is simply misguided to believe that this is the part that will likely break and that we really really really need to stay away from, and not the later parts of the boot that involve grub and raid, and yuck. You know, by creating a chain of many steps where you first go for the ESP, and then follow that by another boot partition and so on, you just make things more complex. If you want things robust, make them simple. Sure, keep writing to the ESP at a minimum, but don't play games of just moving those writes to another boot partition that is a lot more fragile. You are not helping anyone with that... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
