[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Xen bootloader (was: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Roadmap proposal)
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 04:20:59PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote: > Of these, Linux supports: Minix, FAT*, Minix, Reiser, JFS, XFS I understand > that the Linux UFS driver can support a number of filesystems, including > BSD's FFS. I think there's some support for Solaris' UFS in there also. The > UFS driver had experimental write support last time I checked, but all that's > really needed is basic read support to scrape the kernel off the disk. > > There's also a Summer of Code project to make ZFS available as a FUSE > filesystem, which grub can't support (at the moment...). But until Solaris > uses ZFS as a root fs this probably doesn't matter so much. It means every OS with a file system that's not a Linux one will typically have to write it two times more: for grub, and for Linux (along with making Linux actually work well enough). And of course this doubles the support/maintenance matrix as well. > > I'm still not clear on why this > > is a preferable approach to modifying grub? > > It's not necessarily a replacement for grub, but I think it'd be good to > consider as an interim measure or as an alternative (there are already > patches for kexec-under Xen floating around, so all we'd need to do in > principle is to compile a kboot_sl ramdisk and run with it). As an interim solution it might be OK, sure. regards john _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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