Re: [gentoo-dev] grub reiser4

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 22:57 -0500, Mike Doty wrote:
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> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> | On Thursday 29 September 2005 02:10 pm, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
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> |>I was wondering if there's any chance of having the reiser4 patch for
> |>grub (or even the whole grub-reiser4 distfile) added to the ebuild.
> |>There are various bugs where people have posted patches for 0.96x
> |>ebuilds which were never added and the bugs have been WONTFIXed or
> |>left dangling. I've been using grub+reiser4 for about 9 months now
> |>with no problems. The last reason I heard it wouldn't be added was
> |>that no kernels in portage support it; I believe that's not true
> |>anymore, at least mm-sources has reiser4.
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> | i'll ask a few devs how they feel about it before i commit it
> | -mike

> I'd prefer if the patch was left out for amd64 users, or included via a
> use flag.  reiser4 isn't yet stable or proven on amd64.

Honestly no matter what your opinion of resier4 is, this patch needs to
really be added.  I see that amd64 has mm-sources in portage, which is a
kernel from kernel.org, and it has ~amd64 KEYWORDS.  The argument that
we have always had was that reiser4 was not included in a kernel.org
kernel.  This is no longer true.  Now, I can understand not *supporting*
it until it hits vanilla, but we shouldn't deny adding patches that
resolve issues with the FS or packages that interact with the FS just
because we dislike it or don't deem the FS stable.  I'd say to add the
patch to grub, and if a user hoses up their system, well... they're
knowingly running a very experimental kernel and an arguable file
system.... they can pick up the pieces themselves.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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