From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Redeeman Subject: Re: reiser4 for windows Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:29:22 +0100 Message-ID: <1102408162.12503.25.camel@localhost> References: <20041207060730.GA1344@zg.cz> 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: <20041207060730.GA1344@zg.cz> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Reiserfs Mailinglist 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 > -- Redeeman