GRUB 1.99 Released With Support For ZFS and BtrFS

kthreadd writes "GNU GRUB has been updated to version 1.99. Among the many improvements are support for two new filesystems, BtrFS and ZFS. For Linux users this means that it's now possible to move to BtrFS entirely and not use it only for non-bootable volumes."

Comments

Re:Filesystem bandwagon

[hedwards]

I'd take a look here: Btrfs The main problem I have with it is that there's a large number of filesystems out there and while that's not really a bad thing, it makes interoperability a real headache sometimes. Personally, I'd rather have a somewhat less than perfect filesystem (assuming that it is reliable than a huge variety of specialty filesystems which may or may not be readable under any other OS.

And apart from ZFS suffering from NIH problems as well as the CDDL licensing, I really don't see any compelling reason to add yet another filesystem that does largely the same thing.

Re:Does this matter?

[Kamiza Ikioi]

"In 2008 the principal developer of the ext3 and ext4 file systems, Theodore Ts'o, stated that ext4 is a stop-gap and that Btrfs is the way forward,[10] having "a number of the same design ideas that reiser3/4 had". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs & http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/1/217