[RFC] Add XFS support in SYSLINUX

[CHEN Baozi]

Thanks for advice:-) 

Baozi
On Apr 3, 2012, at 2:48 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Hi Chen,
> 
> thanks a lot for your interested in tackling this project.
> 
> Writing to the end of the first block would work for 4k or larger block
> sizes filesystems, but it's not a very clean solution.
> 
> Id had a quick brainstorm with Dave and we came up with the following
> idea:
> 
> - create an extended attribute on the root filesystem that is larger
>   than than the filesystem block size (typically 4k), and store the
>   syslink payload in it.
> - for the first prototype get its block number using the GETBMAPX
>   ioctl, and use it.
> 
> once that prototype works we can talk about a good interface for you.
> We could precreate the attribute at mkfs time at a fixed block number
> so that syslinux can hardcode it, or we could discuss any other kind
> of interface that helps you.
>