On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
