Re: Idea: Use extended blocklist format to support installing to raid device.

[Marco Gerards]

Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 05:20:54PM +0800, Bean wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Right, but we can't get rid of it totally. For example, if they don't
>> reserve enough space at the beginning of disk, there is no way to
>> install grub2 without blocklist. And, some people may want to install
>> to partition instead of mbr. blocklist is useful in small media as
>> well, like floppy, which don't the luxury of mbr.
>
> My point is that users shouldn't provide this kind of insane setups and
> expect GRUB to work well in them.  Instead of jumping through hoops in order
> to support them no matter what, I find it perfectly reasonable that we refuse
> to do it.
>
> To me, this sounds like a slippery slope.  Users come requesting support for
> all sort of weird setups all the time (I remember a recent thread from someone
> who wanted to boot right away from LVM without partition table).  GRUB is
> free software, so everyone can adjust it to their needs, but when we implement
> the code to support one of these setups, we're basically promising to support
> it in the future, deal with user problems and bug fixes.  This shouldn't be
> treated lightly IMHO.

I personally have no problems with saying no from time to time :-)

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Marco