Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757539AbYGULj1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:39:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753677AbYGULjQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:39:16 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.243]:32581 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750781AbYGULjP (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:39:15 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=jZgHDIvDOM8F3x1U1rwX+ZATFBmo6Xadcwk8C7Pr6NmkIIMIRtwW2/FWWHP+ngu//Q JYOHEv15geLAUgju6napcxmTG3WbJB/C7rUJrftR0ZY9l+zMUtN5QLQiTEdQqXP7g74D D3y7ghoZL8Vx+k0z+uRYshkQa7XGknc0A8uEU= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:39:14 -0300 From: "Kevin Winchester" To: "Christoph Hellwig" Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , "Fred ." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080721072801.GA6115@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <487FA143.9010109@garzik.org> <20080720105724.GA8921@infradead.org> <20080721072801.GA6115@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1831 Lines: 38 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/