Re: [PATCH] BFS support

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

Committed

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder'
Serbinenko<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Robert Millan<address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:59:45AM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko 
>> wrote:
>>> Hello. Here is a patch to add BFS support to GRUB2. BFS is a
>>> filesystem which was originally developped by Be, Inc for their
>>> proprietary BeOS. When Be Inc was sold to Palm and developpement of
>>> BeOS ceased a community formed to rewrite it from scratch under MIT
>>> license. Currently this project named Haiku is usable and interesting
>>> even if it for the moment lacks important feature to achieve its goal
>>> of use-friendly desktop OS. Currently they have plans to add multiboot
>>> support (see another thread). As AtheFS is a descendent of BeOS based
>>> on BFS driver from Haiku I used already existing afs driver and added
>>> necessary ifdefs. As you can see AFS and BFS are very similar
>>
>> Looks very cleanly integrated.
> Thanks
>> I have a pair of comments:
>> This looks like it would be a good case for using ALIGN_UP().
> Done
>>
>>> +/* befs.c - The native BeOS/Haiku file-system.  */
>>> +#define BFS 1
>>> +#include "afs.c"
>>
>> Can we name this macro consistently with the tar/cpio one?
> Done
>>
>> --
>> Robert Millan
>>
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> Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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