From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Redeeman Subject: Re: reiser4 for windows Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:28:11 +0100 Message-ID: <1102408091.12503.23.camel@localhost> References: <20041204211059.41930.qmail@web50908.mail.yahoo.com> <41B287C6.2060902@namesys.com> <41B29491.20405@slaphack.com> Reply-To: redeeman@metanurb.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <41B29491.20405@slaphack.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Reiserfs Mailinglist On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 22:54 -0600, David Masover wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > 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. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iQIVAwUBQbKUkHgHNmZLgCUhAQIjwg//bES/Y5TRhdkNyaMAveX4TutK+lKNJqsp > P6j0OJTIW9DxrwtpuMjTICwMW1Lr50oercybKtvQz+UIz7lznmyegyPyjCQFF4dm > /styevdcbUOal5kP1gqxquyxw0nmO4Nl45AUAuArUetYVHbDN/odgQ1jFNt1WXpT > suno3iDwZqiF5+ZSYN1psruukI4KS59+S/Cl9D8TYT7XJUp1AzFa8i+I2ODRw1uj > CQDV1tU7CfqngKheJ/yKV5VTLIb0RrTAhaf2tU5V5bm60+8UIGii8blHWs/0ltq0 > UEfAOSXPJiLHcYPiVCutKagss02Nyy0dlWzD160JSUkXq22+3pKSFQXUxJFKCrXa > 7lFAbosAYO7pt/JIjDBB9Y72F/p8dQJq9kizIBg/KLGD/ZdoRPksxsvf3Ale6uCb > wtciIIsRPlxb+UkefubWeo9kmoD7bWig3IF9zSQUZEupM1WZYcNEdyYEXpLg6BqD > x1Yn0DfCv61ISIahKdNoQEiOyc87Wqcsg6IvByH0pXmdYh0bBkWxxpax4+n+kd2y > TI5yX2QmXxS6RWFAuXV1H2mUyYRcKLeVsNy75Kxorl7nbc4HC/MZsmV+e4z5Whkh > +/5gH9l9bV2NxXL0vKmdQ9zEUHUYYCCqUxWoRtYHY4DFoDgtGE8GyD8QTmyevoT4 > bVDdji2mpS0= > =2xlV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Redeeman