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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Jochen Hoenicke, University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +49 441 798 3124 _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
