[PATCH v3 0/8] Nvram-to-pstore
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Jun 1 15:25:48 EST 2013
Another question...
Should the core pstore fail to unlink partitions that don't have
an ->erase callback ? IE. Why would you let anyone erase the OFW
common partition for example ? That means that userspace tools
can no longer manipulate it but we certainly don't want to remove
it from the nvram itself.
That leads to a deeper concern. Looking at how efi-pstore works,
it looks like they create a file for each var.
This looks like something valuable we could do for something like
the common partition since typically it's made of name,value pairs.
However, pstore is a flat space, while we have patitions which
themselves can be organized in name,value pairs (some at least)
I wonder if it's time to introduce pstore directories... Or do
we stick to our special tools to interpret/change the name,value
pairs ?
Also do we want to add an ability to resize partitions ? Possibly
based on how much is written to them ?
Cheers,
Ben.
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