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Subject: Re: [concept & "good taste" review] persistent store
From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:49 AM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> How are things written to the store?  Is it a record-based affair?

Yes, the ERST store is record based ... record format is defined in UEFI.
To save blobs of console logs I just defined a new uuid for a section type
that holds a bunch of bytes for me.

-Tony