From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: reiser4 and grub2 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:04:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4CBC37E3.3050301@gmail.com> References: <712869e4bd3f8a89f431df5ffb8097b9@cs.karelia.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <712869e4bd3f8a89f431df5ffb8097b9@cs.karelia.ru> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: sannikov Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org 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. > -- > 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 > >