[syslinux] [PATCH 0/9] linux/syslinux: support ext2/3/4 device

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 5 16:04:39 PST 2015


On 01/01/2015 09:05 PM, Robert Yang wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
> These patches make syslinux/linux support ext2/3/4, and it doesn't
> require the root privilege, I'd like to add a separate e2fs/syslinux, if
> that is more appropriate, it should be easy to do that.
> 
> I put these patches on github so that you can easily get them in case
> you'd like to test them. (The repo's name is sys_tmp, which avoids
> confusing others, I will remove the repo when these patches are
> reviewed).
> 

In my opinion, linux/syslinux really should just be part of extlinux,
since it is exactly equivalent to mounting the filesystem, running
extlinux, and unmounting the filesystem.  That automatically adds
support for all filesystems.

mtools/syslinux is the one that doesn't require root privileges, and
where libext2fs belongs.  Ideally the FAT support ought to be
internalized into a library, too.

The one thing with mtools/syslinux is that some people like to compile
it for non-Linux platforms (how successfully, I don't know) and so
ext*fs support should probably be conditionalized.

	-hpa



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