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SubjectRE: [RFC][PATCH v2 2/3] Hold multiple logs
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> I think we inevitably lose in that scenario. I'd need to verify, but my 
> recollection is that overwriting existing variables may be equivalent to
> a delete/create cycle.

This would mean that EFI really wants the OS to treat EFI variables as pretty much
exclusively read-only. Any activity which periodically updates a variable would
eventually run into problems in an EFI implementation that loses the old space
until a reset.

Sad.

-Tony


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