Re: Reiser4 and GRUB...

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

At Sat, 24 May 2003 18:54:23 +0400,
Yury Umanets wrote:
> I'm sure, that I will cut it out soon.

Ok. I hope you will be able to reduce the size enough.

> In general you are right. But consider about adding new plugins used for 
> root reiser4 filesystem. These plugins should be handled too. Also these 
> plugins may not be standard ones. I mean, that anyone is able to add 
> something in kernel code first and then in library. And in the case of 
> using current approach we will have supported GRUB out of the box. At 
> least using it with stage2 only.

That sounds reasonable, but I still prefer to include the library in
GRUB, so that we can make sure that the size is below the limit. What
I don't like is that it could cause random errors to depend on
third-party libraries.

> Thanks for answer. I thought before, that address@hidden list is not 
> friendly one.  But I was wrong :)

I think you were right. That time, Jochen was responsible for ReiserFS
support, so I thought it would be better to keep things preferable for
him. He liked to use our own implementation. However, I haven't heard
from him anything recently, so I now think it would be better to
change things for a new active developer (i.e. you).

Also, note that I am much more conservative than other maintainers
(e.g. Andrew Clausen). So it is much harder to change things in GRUB
than other projects. This is mainly because GRUB is very difficult to
test (consider how many variants of PC BIOSes are in the world), but
this is also just because it is my nature. Thus, aggressive
propositions to change things dramatically are often rejected, unless
you show well-grounded arguments.

Ah, another reason that this list is unfriendly is that my response is
really bad these days. Be patient, please. That is because I'm
preparing to move to a foreign country. I expect that I will have more
spare time in some months.

Okuji