No, because moving it means that you have to manually redo it every time you install a snap. which is really a pita.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> From: Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> >> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:24:13 -0700 >> >> > Whereas new installboot tends to shift it around: >> > >> > # installboot -v sd1 2>&1 | grep shift >> > fs block shift 2; part offset 64; inode block 56, offset 2344 >> > # installboot -v sd1 2>&1 | grep shift >> > fs block shift 2; part offset 64; inode block 48, offset 16168 >> > # installboot -v sd1 2>&1 | grep shift >> > fs block shift 2; part offset 64; inode block 56, offset 2472 >> > >> > Meaning that the pbr must be updated with the new location. >> >> It doesn't just "tend" to move around (ie. tend == "prone to move"). >> It moves every time, since it is using mkstemp to create a new file. > > But isn't this a good thing? > > Now it moves around consistently, so people perhaps won't forget and > be surprised when it moves eventually. They just need some retraining ;). >
