On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:51:50 -0500 > Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> So we're getting close to having a working fsck tool so I wanted to >> take the opportunity to talk about the future of BTRFS in Fedora. > ...snip... > >> 1) GRUB support. Edward Shishkin did GRUB1 patches for BTRFS a while >> ago, but they were obviously never merged upstream and were also not >> included into fedora. These would either need to be cleaned up and >> put into our grub package, or we'd need to put /boot on a different >> filesystem. I personally hate the idea of having a non-btrfs /boot >> partition but I'm not the one in charge of GRUB. > > Perhaps if we are going to the pain of getting btrfs patches working > and stable, we could just look at moving to grub2? Well I don't think cleaning up the existing patches will be that big of a deal, it's mostly a matter of testing. The problem with GRUB2 is it's GPLv3, explicitly to be a giant pain in the ass for porting any new fs to GRUB since we're all GPLv2 only. Aren't open source licenses grand? > > ...snip... > >> So what are your thoughts? Thanks, > > Sounds good. I'd suggest filing a feature page already and getting it > setup with all the status, etc. That can be a central point for > coordinating that effort. > Sounds good, I'll do that, thank you, Josef -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
