[syslinux] LVM support

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Apr 11 14:07:28 PDT 2009


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hearing the discussion about whether LILO should stay in Debian, I
>> started to wonder whether adding LVM support to EXTLINUX was
>> possible.  That's the main selling point of LILO, as far as I know.
>> And GRUB2 already has a module for parsing LVM metadata:
>> http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/grub2/disk/lvm.c?root=grub&view=log
>>
>> Couldn't we somehow incorporate it?
> 
> Should be doable once the filesystem code has moved to C.
> 

Note: a lot of these things are a matter of developer resources.  There
is a lot of things that *can* be done if someone cares enough to matter.

Here, though, is a counter-question for you (and it's real):

In *your view*, what is the value proposition of Syslinux over Grub?

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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