Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-10-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:47:50AM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Peng Tao wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:29:11AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: > >> > It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's wor

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-28 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Peng Tao wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:29:11AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: >> It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's work and port it to GRUB 2. If nobody else does then I'd be interested in doing so myself

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-27 Thread Peng Tao
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:29:11AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: >> > >> > It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's work and port it to >> > GRUB 2. If nobody else does then I'd be interested in doing so myself, >> > although I will not

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:38:10AM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > Edward - please do continue to develop patches for GRUB 1 (the one that > still actually works plenty well enough for lots of people) and ignore the > naysayers who are happy to throw out backwards compatibility. > > Sometimes you

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:29:11AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: > > > > It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's work and port it to > > GRUB 2. If nobody else does then I'd be interested in doing so myself, > > although I will not be able to start for a month or two from now. > Is there any

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-26 Thread Peng Tao
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:09:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:38:10AM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:21:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> > > I'm sorry but GRUB Legacy is not maint

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-25 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 16:01 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:09:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:38:10AM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:21:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Edward - please do continue

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-25 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 07:16:09AM -0700, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > That would be rather unusual - we certainly discuss ext2 and ancient file > systems in our ext development lists. > > A lot of distros (and their users) still use grub, just like a lot of > users still use ext2. We support ext2 too

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:09:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:38:10AM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:21:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > I'm sorry but GRUB Legacy is not maintained. At least not by us; we've > > > deprecated it in fa

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-25 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:38:10AM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:21:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Hi Edward, > > > > I'm sorry but GRUB Legacy is not maintained. At least not by us; we've > > deprecated it in favour of GRUB 2. > > > > It is also being aban

RE: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-24 Thread Gregg C Levine
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:22 PM > To: The development of GRUB 2 > Cc: Ric Wheeler; Chris Mason; The development of BTRFS > Subject: Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH] > > > Hi Edward, > > I'm sorry but GRUB Legacy is not maintained. At least

Re: grub-0.97: btrfs multidevice support [PATCH]

2009-09-24 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Edward, I'm sorry but GRUB Legacy is not maintained. At least not by us; we've deprecated it in favour of GRUB 2. It is also being abandoned by distributors, so I wouldn't recommend that you put any effort in developing for it. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belong