On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de> wrote: > On Wed, 19.03.14 13:13, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: > >> I agree, although I go farther. The EFI System partition doesn't >> scale, isn't resilient, can neither be mirrored nor easily sync'd >> (multidevice boot). It should be considered a pre-boot and OS >> installer domain only. > > You know, the ESP is actually FAT, one of the simplest, best-understood, > most used, and most stable file systems around. Sure, one can always > break things, but it is simply misguided to believe that this is the > part that will likely break and that we really really really need to > stay away from, and not the later parts of the boot that involve grub > and raid, and yuck. > > You know, by creating a chain of many steps where you first go for > the ESP, and then follow that by another boot partition and so on, you > just make things more complex.
More complex than trying to mirror a FAT ESP partition across multiple boot disks, keeping it properly synchronized, because RAID isn't supported? Grub 1 on MD RAID actually just works, once you figure out the incantation to install it. It would be a shame if that ability got lost in the name of simplicity. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
