Re: grub nilfs2 module

[Ryusuke Konishi <ryusuke-sG5X7nlA6pw@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:43:46 +0900, Jiro SEKIBA <jir-hfpbi5WX9J54Eiagz67IpQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've written nilfs2 module for grub2 boot loader.
> 
> Here is the patch and mail I'v sent to grub-devel ML.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-02/msg00025.html

Great!

The patch looks fine to me except some work, for instance,
rollforwarding and checksum based log validation is needed.

But meanwhile, this prototype seems enough to load kernels and
initrds.

I'd like to try it for my laptop.

> It may not be mature yet, but I was able to boot kernel
> from nilfs2 partition and mount it as rootfs.
> So you are able to boot the system that has only nilfs2 partition.
> 
> The patch is against bazaar repository top, but actual code is
> just a fs/nilfs2.c.  Other patches are against makefiles.
> So I think you can able to compile it in stable release with
> slight modification.
> 
> It would be very nice of you if you try and give me feed backs
> to improve the module. 
> 
> thank you very much in advance!
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> Jiro SEKIBA <jir-hfpbi5WX9J54Eiagz67IpQ@public.gmane.org>
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It would be nice if you could tell us belief usage of the patch.

Thank you,
Ryusuke Konishi
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