RE: [RFC][PATCH v2 2/3] Hold multiple logs

[Luck, Tony]

> 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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