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Re: GRUB in RedHat 7.2 xfs

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Subject: Re: GRUB in RedHat 7.2 xfs
From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:08:49 -0800
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:44:25AM -0700, erich@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> It appears to work fine, though I haven't sniffed through the source in
> detail to see if it does stuff like replay the logs...  but that's
> probably ok since when you use it in general it's read-only (only writes
> if you run the install command), so I initially tested it running off of
> a floppy.

grub XFS filesystem code never writes to the device, its completly
readonly (as it should be).

as a result of couse any files which will only be visable/usable after
a log recovery are not accessable by grub (note my only testing is
from yaboot, but the core XFS code is not changed much).

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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