From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755418AbYGUH2T (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:28:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752456AbYGUH2G (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:28:06 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:37330 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752273AbYGUH2E (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:28:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:28:01 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Kevin Winchester Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Garzik , "Fred ." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please add ZFS support (from GPL sources) Message-ID: <20080721072801.GA6115@infradead.org> References: <487FA143.9010109@garzik.org> <20080720105724.GA8921@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.