Re: Reiser4 and GRUB...

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Sunday 25 May 2003 20:23, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> At Sat, 24 May 2003 18:54:23 +0400,
> Yury Umanets wrote:
> > 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).

As my name is mentioned, I think it is time to say something, too :)
Yes it's true, I have been busy with other things and haven't found
the time to read the bug-grub mailing lists.  Actually, I hardly found
the time to scan the subjects, as the amounts of mail seems to have
increased dramatically. I may have missed many mails that fall in my
realm.

Back to the topic: IMHO maintaining a file-system driver in grub is
not too much work.  This is because file-systems changes are
introduced very conservatively, once the file-system is in use.  There
was one bigger change for the reiserfs-2 to 3 transition and one small
change because a super block field had finally a meaning that was
different from the one originally planned.  The other changes were
mainly bug fixing in my own code.

This is, of course, just my opinion and I don't want to tell Yury how
to do it (this is Okuji's Job :).  I haven't followed the reiserfs
development recently and don't know much about reiserfs-4.  So it's
okay that Yury takes over maintenance of reiserfs.

As for squeezing the size of libreiser: You don't need any code that
allocates blocks or writes to the file-system, so you can omit all the
rebalancing tree code, block allocation algorithm, block bitmap
parsing and so on.  If you have done this already, forget this comment :)

  Jochen

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Jochen Hoenicke, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
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