On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Michal Suchanek<hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: > 2009/9/7 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>: >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Colin Watson<cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >>> os-prober mounts filesystems using Linux's filesystem drivers. This of >>> course means that we have to go to special lengths to avoid replaying >>> journals (we don't yet, but we should), we have to load huge piles of >>> filesystem modules, etc. >>> >>> Today's crazy idea was to implement a FUSE wrapper for grub-fstest, >>> thereby providing a read-only filesystem mount using GRUB's filesystem >>> drivers. There would be lots of things you probably wouldn't be able to >>> do this way, but it would be enough to support os-prober (which could of >>> course only use this optionally, but even so). >>> >>> I can't decide whether or not this is a terrible idea, so I'm sending >>> mail in case somebody thinks it's a good idea and wants to run with it. >>> :-) >>> >> Actually I had this idea before but haven't had any time to implement >> or think more about it. This would be useful for massive multi-OS >> environment since fuse is available on many platforms but many of FS >> drivers aren't. Implementing fuse wrapper for grub fs drivers is >> useful. However I'm not sure if it should go to main repository - this >> project isn't really about booting. I think that it's useful but >> should be a separate "spin-off" project > > Since we want grub use this module and at this point in time the FUSE > interface is more stable than grub interfaces I think it would be more > natural to start developing this kind of module with GRUB unless there > are some license issues. After all, grub includes other tools that are > meant for running outside of GRUB. The question remains who (if > anybody at all) writes the wrapper.
Hi, I can check this out on my spare time, but for now, new menu interface has higher priority on my todo list. -- Bean gitgrub home: http://github.com/grub/grub/ my fork page: http://github.com/bean123/grub/ _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
