From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1BweuN-0005xE-81 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:40:07 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BweuK-0005wj-Il for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:40:04 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BweuI-0005wK-Ju for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:40:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BweuI-0005w3-G6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:40:02 -0400 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bwepq-00088Q-VD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:35:27 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC824F0D47A0 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:35:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:35:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <87pt5rl8nc.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> In-Reply-To: <87pt5rl8nc.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408161235.45573.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: problems compiling NTFS on GRUB2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:40:05 -0000 On Monday 16 August 2004 11:44, Marco Gerards wrote: > Personally I don't like it much to link against an external library > to get filesystem support. I would only consider doing such thing > when the filesystem structure changes very often, like reiser4. I don't like, either. External dependencies should be avoided, whenever possible. Glue code is really painful to maintain. > > ntfs.mod is 74KB . I don't thinks thats insurmountable... > > Most other filesystem modules are between 3 and 7KB. Yeah, 74KB is too big. It does not fit in the rescue mode. Why does it become so big? Okuji