Re: Reiser4 and GRUB...

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

At Fri, 23 May 2003 13:16:31 +0400,
Yury Umanets wrote:
> Probably I'd like modify GRUB to support reiser4, but how should I do 
> it? Currently the main problem is size. We can do not use library  
> approach, but this way has few weeknesses. And main of them is need to 
> modidfy reiser4 code in more then one places (libreiser4, GRUB)

I mean that you modify the file "stage2/fsys_resiserfs.c". Of course,
I don't know much about Reiser4, so I can't see if this is better than
using your library. I'm just wondering how difficult this is (compared
to your approach).

Generally speaking, I understand it is a Good Thing to maintain a
single source tree rather than several independent source
trees. However, we have been developing/maintaining code for
supporting many filesystems for some years, and we haven't had many
troubles with it, actually. Therefore, I guess the cost of maintaining
fsys_reiserfs.c independently wouldn't be significantly different.

Okuji