Vitaly Fertman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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/
My first concern about this is that this library is way to big for GRUB 2. The issues for GRUB 2 are different from those of GRUB Legacy. Second the library does have stuff like memory management, etc IIRC. What I remember of it, it is pretty bloated. Or am I mistaken about this? Personally I do not like the idea to use an external library to add a filesystem to GRUB 2. I wonder what the opinion of other GRUB 2 developers is about this. But this did not answer my question about complexity of reiserfs 4. But I will have a look at it and see what I can do for GRUB 2. As for GRUB Legacy, that is not up to me. Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub