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

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello!
Robert I tend to agree with your statements except for these:
"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."

Edward this simply means that your efforts here are only being commented
about. Robert is indeed correct. We are indeed shifting our directions
towards the next generation of GRUB now called GRUB 2. Outside of the Debian
family of distributions, I am not at all sure if any of the others are
indeed switching. For example Slackware still ships with it in their extras
directories. (But only for the 12.2 and 13.0 releases and of course just for
the regular 32 bit processors. It may be using GRUB 2 for booting IA64 bit
versions of Slackware.)

Ideally if you feel that this is necessary, then go ahead and do so, also
check with your distribution's management team and see if they are
interested with your work. This might also include those who do indeed use
BTRFS for their work as well.

This is the nature and the wonder of the open source world remember. It can
be fun, it certainly is surprising.
--
Gregg C Levine address@hidden
"The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
  


> -----Original Message-----
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> 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 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
> 
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(and
>   how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
>   still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
> 
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