Re: reiser4 for windows

[Redeeman <redeeman@metanurb.dk>]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 22:07 -0800, Jiri Klouda wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You might be onto something here. I am pretty sure my company would
> pay quite a lot for a working, fast and elegant implementation of 
> symbolic links on windows. Either as a new filesystem or as an addition 
> onto ntfs. We currently use one such addition and not very usable and
> uses a catalog of symlinks that can easily get corrupted.
> 
> Having reiser4 on Windows or even ext2, would be a huge thing.
a real implementation of ext2 for windows exists.. i had it once in
vmware.. but i cant remember the name
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Unfortunatelly even with very fast ethernet connections and network
> appliance with CIFS access, we still don't get the performance of a
> local filesystem. Plus, you don't want to really give write access 
> over network, that slows down anything when you get into hundreds of
> clients. And we really cannot pay for so many network applicances to
> make this scalable proposition.
> 
> I wish we could just drop Windows as a platform, but as long as there
> are customers, there will be need to support them as well... :(
> 
> -Jiri
> 
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Redeeman <redeeman@metanurb.dk>