On Monday 04 October 2004 22:06, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub