Re: reiser4 for windows

[Redeeman <redeeman@metanurb.dk>]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 22:54 -0600, David Masover wrote:
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> Hans Reiser wrote:
> | I should add that reiser4 for windows would be proprietary.   If they
> | can pay MS, they can pay me, and I see no reason to do free work for MS.
> 
> Don't think too highly of the Cygwin project, do you?  Oh, and it's
> almost impossible to get a laptop without paying MS, directly or
> indirectly.  No reiser4 for laptops, then.
well.. it depends on where you buy the laptop. i would never even
consider buying one a place where windows is required to buy too. and
yet, i can get reiser4.
> 
> Also, is it a given that reiser4 for windows would work without help
> from MS?  I've just never seen a third-party filesystem driver for
> windows.  You'd think that at least one other filesystem, one of the
> Linux/BSD/etc ones, would have done this, if it was feasable.
its possible, one just needs to buy the windows installable filesystems
kit, which they were so kind to put a price on. probably because they
know they cant do a fs themselves and they dont want competition
> 
> To start with, ntfs read access is still case insensitive, last I
> checked.  How deep does that go?  How many programs would be broken if
> it was changed?  How much point would there be if one could not access a
> unix-created reiser4 partition, or if unix reiser4.2 had to be case
> insensitive?  And let's not go into the file-as-directory stuff -- it's
> hard enough on unix.
> 
> All this leaves me with the distinct impression that it'd be cheaper to
> buy some gigabit ethernet (or fibre) and a Linux CIFS/Samba fileserver
> using reiser4.  Steam and others refuse to install on network drives,
> Windows probably will not boot off a network drive, but I imagine that
> fixing these would be easier than porting a filesystem.
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