On 21.01.2014 09:28, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' > Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 10.01.2014 08:49, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck wrote: >>> >>> The blocklist is fixed and stable and will never change. >> What guarantees that it won't change on grub-setup invocation? I'm under >> impression that it will change on every grub-setup invocation as file >> gets recreated. >> > > If I read code correctly, it checks current size and if new core.img > fits, space is reused. So we could effectively make it preallocate > reasonable size (or even unreasonable - I guess 10MB will be enough > for foreseeable future) the very first time it is done. > It still doesn't solve the problem that during operations file becomes a normal file and OS is allowed to rearrange the blocks as it sees fit. > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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