From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kevin Winchester" Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:39:14 -0300 Message-ID: References: <487FA143.9010109@garzik.org> <20080720105724.GA8921@infradead.org> <20080721072801.GA6115@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , "Fred ." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: "Christoph Hellwig" Return-path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.244]:33891 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751087AbYGULjP (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:39:15 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so359587and.103 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:39:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080721072801.GA6115@infradead.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:35:45AM -0300, Kevin Winchester wrote: >> If Fred declines, is anyone free to take you up on the offer? I have >> no filesystem experience and almost no experience with kernel code in >> general, so I would not be anyone's first choice for a task like this. >> However, since it mainly appears to be an integration exercise (using >> the code from GRUB and making it work in linux), it might well be >> doable for me. As a bonus, being highly inexperienced, I have no >> expectations of doing anything correctly, and thus would not react >> badly to lots of criticism. >> >> So to summarize - if anyone else would like to undertake this work, >> they probably should. But if no one has the time/will, then I would >> be happy to give it a try. > > Yes, this offer is of course up to everyone interested. But it's not > purely an integration effort in the traditional sense, the grub > filesystem interface is quite different from the Linux one, and the code > structure and style is quite different. But if you're willing to learn > it should be very interesting. > No one else seems to have volunteered, so I would certainly like to give it a try. I guess I need to get the ZFS grub code, create a ZFS filesystem, and start looking around for information on linux filesystem development and ZFS (obviously without looking at any CDDL licensed code). Once I get a handle on that, I'll see where I can get before I need to ask a thousand questions. -- Kevin Winchester