Hi,
On Fri, 2006年10月27日 at 19:58 +0100, John Levon wrote:
> These two patches re-work pygrub to use a generic C library for reading
> filesystem images. An immediate benefit is that there's no longer any
> external dependencies, so all the filesystems always 'just work'.
The downside is that it no longer picks up updates, fixes etc. from the
official upstream support for libext2fs / libreiserfs, so we're just
duplicating the places where filesystem support needs to be maintained.
If xen packages are properly built, filesystems will Just Work anyway.
> Slightly longer term, providing a stable C API for filesystem support
> adds a considerable amount of future proofing.
That I can agree with. But I'd rather see that API done as a wrapper
around existing upstream filesystem libraries, rather than forking fs
userspace support entirely.
--Stephen
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