Joerg Schilling wrote: > Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote: > > >>>UFS support is not needed as long as we put GRUB into the Linux partition ;-) >>>The Boot archive may use hsfs. >> >>You know what, I have a wild idea - how about ignoring UFS altogether >>and jumping right into bootable ZFS, when it becomes available later >>next year ? How does that sound ? > > > I would like to see UFS on PPC. > Why do you believe that UFS support would be such a big problem.
I didn't say that. Actually UFS support shouldn't be hard at all. I just said that bearing in mind Sun's plans for having ZFS as the only boot option around Solaris 11 timeframe we may very well just skip the UFS. > Remember that there is UFS support for the GRUB we use on x86. Sure. > > > > Maybe it is better to visit them in Berlin? Whatever works better. > > >>>Keep in mind that we have no ATA driver source. >> >>Indeed. What about upcoming SATA framework ? Will it be useful for us ? >>Can someone from Sun comment on this ? > > > I am not sure. I was in hope that Sun would contact Bruce Adler to check the > state of the ata driver that most likely is not encumbered. > > J?rg >
