From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Stroetmann Subject: Re: reiser4 and grub2 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:35:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4CBF7CB5.7070406@ontolab.com> References: <712869e4bd3f8a89f431df5ffb8097b9@cs.karelia.ru> <4CBC37E3.3050301@gmail.com> <33d69d2b913d7597730de74df6c5c3eb@mail.velocitynet.com.au> <2f0c33ebbbb744f7a814e74a830adae9@cs.karelia.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2f0c33ebbbb744f7a814e74a830adae9@cs.karelia.ru> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: sannikov Cc: linux reiserfs-devel Aloha; On the 20.10.2010 21:10, Sannikov wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:33:36 +1100, wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:04:51 +0200, Edward Shishkin >> wrote: >>> sannikov wrote: >>>> Good day. >>>> >>> Hello. >>> >>>> I want to ask you about reiser4 and grub-2. >>>> >>>> I am try to write to Yuriy Umanets but his mailboxes are inactive... >>>> Some few days ago I findes his request about this. >>>> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-02/msg00263.html) >>>> >>>> If it is possible, can you describe current state of Raiser4 support > in >>>> Grub2. >>>> >>> Unsupported. >>> >>>> As I know this task yet placed in Grub's TODO list. >>>> I hope this idea yet alive. >>>> >>> I didn't look at grub2/fs interface yet, but believe that it >>> is better then grub1's one. >>> >>> There is a patch for reiser4 support in grub1. I don't >>> think it will be a big problem to adjust this one for grub2: >>> the sources are quite understandable. >>> >>> The only thing I am unhappy with is that it can not boot >>> reiser4 via module stage1_5 (it is too big and can not >>> fit in 62 sectors), It means that user will need to re-install >>> grub every time after defragmentation (currently >>> unsupported, but upcoming). So it would be nice to resolve >>> this problem in grub2 somehow. >>> >>> Btrfs stage1_5 module with multi-device support >>> successfully fits in 62 sectors. Why reiser4 can not? >>> I think we need to get rid of the mini-library with a lot >>> of unneeded functions and put everything in one file >>> (as other file systems do). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Edward. >>> >> Looks like some others have had a go at compiling grub2 ,see: >> >> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.2/i586/grub2-1.98-18.1.i586.rpm >> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.2/src/grub2-1.98-18.1.src.rpm >> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.3/i586/grub2-1.98-18.1.i586.rpm >> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.3/src/grub2-1.98-18.1.src.rpm >> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.3/x86_64/grub2-1.98-18.1.x86_64.rpm >> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_Factory/i586/grub2-1.98-18.1.i586.rpm >> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_Factory/src/grub2-1.98-18.1.src.rpm >> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_Factory/x86_64/grub2-1.98-18.1.x86_64.rpm >> Glenn >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > reiserfs-devel" >> in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > This is good. > > I am download grub2-1.98-18.1.src.rpm and don't find anything code for > Reiser4... Or I miss anything? > > WBR A.Sannikov Thanks for the information. I looked also for R4 support and then wondered as well, but had no time to go deeper into the case yesterday . Have fun Christian *<:o) O>-< -(D)>-<