Underlying DE for the Workstation product

[Colin Walters]

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> On 2 February 2014 19:57, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>>  /boot is (on basically every Fedora system deployed so far) not 
>> FAT, so
>>  if your bootloader doesn't read any other filesystems it's not 
>> going to
>>  be able to boot a kernel.
>> 
> Is a FAT /boot such a bad thing? 
> 
For one thing, not supporting symlinks would break the OSTree model for 
atomic upgrades (/boot/loader -> /boot/loader.[01]).

It would be possible to fix this by pushing the atomic upgrades 
"protocol" down to the bootloader level, but I'd prefer to avoid 
patching all of the bootloaders.


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