On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Luke L<lukehasnon...@gmail.com> wrote: > How many of these things are actually going to make it into Karmic? A > dynamically sized swap file? GRUB 2 residing on its own partition, > etc? These things sound good. >
GRUB2 on its own partition is silly. Like having a separate /boot. What problem are you trying to solve? If you hose /boot, you need an install CD to repair; if you separate /boot from / you're "safer" because /boot isn't mounted, but if you hose / you need an install CD to repair. Every argument for putting Grub or the kernel on a separate partition has been based around the idea that these files are somehow more important than, say, /bin/sh; the kernel is no more important than /bin/sh, because init will fail without a working shell to run rc. Recovery tools? You mean "insert the install CD so I can rebuild your totally damaged / partition"? Or will it automagically configure networking and download all the packages for a fresh base install? And if we damage the separate partition, then what? As for dynamic swap, we need a way to suspend-to-swap-file such that if there's not enough we just create one. We also need swapd fixed, because it's rather crappy (doesn't free up swap files, doesn't coalesce i.e. I can't use 16MB swap files and max 512M swap across 8 files by having 64MB files created after 4 16MB files exist and then starting to free 16MB files when I'm creating the 7th swap file, etc). > Also, would a dedicated GRUB2 parition be able to exist on LVM/raid? > Just curious. > Who cares? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
