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Re: reiser4 in GRUB
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Vitaly Fertman |
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Re: reiser4 in GRUB |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Oct 2004 00:07:35 +0400 |
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On Monday 04 October 2004 22:06, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
> > tags 268482 wontfix
> > thanks
> >
> > Vitaly, Hans, everyone:
> >
> > GRUB Legacy is frozen for new features. I found this message from Okuji
> > (the GRUB maintainer) explaining the situation wrt reiser4 support:
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2004-08/msg00017.html
> >
> > If you want to integrate reiser4 support in GRUB, I suggest you focus on
> > GRUB2. Support for new features and filesystems is very needed there.
> > Thanks!
ok, but now we have this patch and would like to know if you are going
to include it.
> Reiserfs[34] support for GRUB 2 is quite high on my todo list. But I am
> a bit worried about reiser4. As far as I know it has plugins and I
> wonder if I also have to implement all plugins too and how much work
> it will be to maintain this.
all plugins are implemented in reiser4 library which is the part of
reiser4progs.
the patch will only call a pair of library methods.
> I hope someone can tell me what would be the amount of work is to
> implement and maintain such reiserfs 4 implementation, for example
> compared to the complexity of other filesystems.
probably even simplier as all internal stuff is implemented in the reiser4
library itself. you can have a look at the current reiser4 support patch for
grub for details: ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/grub/
--
Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman
Re: Freeze in GRUB Legacy (Was: Re: reiser4 in GRUB), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2004/10/07
Re: reiser4 in GRUB, Marco Gerards, 2004/10/04
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