From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Klouda Subject: Re: reiser4 for windows Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:07:30 -0800 Message-ID: <20041207060730.GA1344@zg.cz> Reply-To: Jiri Klouda Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l" Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: To: Reiserfs --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > 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=20 symbolic links on windows. Either as a new filesystem or as an addition=20 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. > 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=20 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 --=20 Jiri Klouda http://www.zg.cz/~jk --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBtUiipxwzMweqZNwRApLmAJ9583MYDF5YEL+t/wF5Ldzb80Ju5QCg3BzB QdqnaxncEbvSAcmEivz5/fc= =vEb3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--