From 4a5472d322f9ee1158f1e32d19f2d199e43fb7f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Scott Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:57:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Improve README.md Signed-off-by: David Scott --- README.md | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 981b41b..3399010 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,18 @@ ocaml-mbr ========= -A simple library for manipulating Master Boot Records +A simple library for manipulating Master Boot Records. The +primary purposes of this library are: + 1. to create bootable disk images creating + [mirage](http://www.openmirage.org/) kernels + 2. for mirage kernels to read the partition tables on + attached disks + +To do items +----------- + +* It's easy to specify nonsense, for example overlapping + partition entries. We could do with a way to represent a + disk as a set of non-overlapping extents which could be + nested (partition / LVM volume / filesystem / file) +