* reiser4 for windows
@ 2004-12-04 21:10 Job Bob
2004-12-05 1:57 ` Hans Reiser
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0 siblings, 3 replies; 28+ messages in thread
From: Job Bob @ 2004-12-04 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: reiserfs-list
I know that this question has a fairly obvious
answer, but is there or will there be a reiser4 driver
for Windows? Microsoft will only make one if enough
people use reiser4, otherwise hell will freeze before
they do. The free software people seem to suffer from
NIH syndrome, so they probably won't help either. That
only leaves individuals or companies. Any ideas on
when we might we a reiser4 driver for windows?
Yale
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-04 21:10 reiser4 for windows Job Bob @ 2004-12-05 1:57 ` Hans Reiser 2004-12-05 4:00 ` Hans Reiser 2004-12-06 2:31 ` Jonathan Briggs 2 siblings, 0 replies; 28+ messages in thread From: Hans Reiser @ 2004-12-05 1:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Job Bob; +Cc: reiserfs-list Job Bob wrote: > I know that this question has a fairly obvious >answer, but is there or will there be a reiser4 driver >for Windows? > Depends on how many people buy the repacker for reiser4. If a lot do, or some other money source appears, then I can afford projects like creating a windows port. >Microsoft will only make one if enough >people use reiser4, otherwise hell will freeze before >they do. The free software people seem to suffer from >NIH syndrome, so they probably won't help either. That >only leaves individuals or companies. Any ideas on >when we might we a reiser4 driver for windows? > > Yale > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! >http://my.yahoo.com > > > > > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-04 21:10 reiser4 for windows Job Bob 2004-12-05 1:57 ` Hans Reiser @ 2004-12-05 4:00 ` Hans Reiser 2004-12-05 4:54 ` David Masover 2004-12-05 8:14 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando 2004-12-06 2:31 ` Jonathan Briggs 2 siblings, 2 replies; 28+ messages in thread From: Hans Reiser @ 2004-12-05 4:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Job Bob; +Cc: reiserfs-list 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-05 4:00 ` Hans Reiser @ 2004-12-05 4:54 ` David Masover 2004-12-07 8:28 ` Redeeman ` (2 more replies) 2004-12-05 8:14 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando 1 sibling, 3 replies; 28+ messages in thread From: David Masover @ 2004-12-05 4:54 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Hans Reiser; +Cc: Job Bob, reiserfs-list -----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. 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. 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----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-05 4:54 ` David Masover @ 2004-12-07 8:28 ` Redeeman 2004-12-08 0:51 ` Philip Miller 2005-01-16 2:39 ` Hans Reiser 2 siblings, 0 replies; 28+ messages in thread From: Redeeman @ 2004-12-07 8:28 UTC (permalink / raw) 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 <redeeman@metanurb.dk> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-05 4:54 ` David Masover 2004-12-07 8:28 ` Redeeman @ 2004-12-08 0:51 ` Philip Miller 2005-01-26 19:27 ` Marcus Furlong 2005-01-16 2:39 ` Hans Reiser 2 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: Philip Miller @ 2004-12-08 0:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: reiserfs-list; +Cc: Job Bob David Masover 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. Have a look at <http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm>. Phil Miller ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-08 0:51 ` Philip Miller @ 2005-01-26 19:27 ` Marcus Furlong 0 siblings, 0 replies; 28+ messages in thread From: Marcus Furlong @ 2005-01-26 19:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: reiserfs-list Philip Miller wrote: > David Masover 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. > > Have a look at <http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm>. > > Phil Miller And one for reiserfs... http://p-nand-q.com/download/rfstool.html and gui frontend for it... http://yareg.akucom.de/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-05 4:54 ` David Masover 2004-12-07 8:28 ` Redeeman 2004-12-08 0:51 ` Philip Miller @ 2005-01-16 2:39 ` Hans Reiser 2005-01-16 6:07 ` David Masover 2 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: Hans Reiser @ 2005-01-16 2:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David Masover; +Cc: Job Bob, reiserfs-list David Masover wrote: > > 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 windows > reiser4 for laptops, then. > > 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. I don't know, honestly. > > To start with, ntfs read access is still case insensitive, last I > checked. How deep does that go? In reiser4, it is just a directory plugin. > 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. > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2005-01-16 2:39 ` Hans Reiser @ 2005-01-16 6:07 ` David Masover 2005-01-17 16:46 ` Hans Reiser 0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: David Masover @ 2005-01-16 6:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Hans Reiser; +Cc: Job Bob, reiserfs-list -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hans Reiser wrote: [...] | |> |> To start with, ntfs read access is still case insensitive, last I |> checked. How deep does that go? | | | In reiser4, it is just a directory plugin. Nono -- how do you give Windows, which is case insensitive, access to a case-sensitive filesystem? For instance, how do you get a Windows-based backup program to back up a reiser4 partition from a Linux installation, if it has filenames that are identical except for case? Or is compatibility not an issue? |> 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. This was awhile ago, and I forget a lot of the context, but I'm re-reading this and I agree with myself. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQeoEtngHNmZLgCUhAQLEjA//QP63NbMvczSfz1YE+EZ/9WqwdE1Wtl/i YbqSd2r/nZaCcluoIMO6CXN780m7lqSBBTEH05gaHkNuqqxIuupSvLG5YexuDltB FQtz856AEp29+OtRz691Z+YYCzowJSI6OmHvS6PXviRlv1JBvi2q8e8d0mG+37sT VhIS3xMOovbJsR7CaOJiJZTbzvE+nIG5iGzU0/gtMFyXOLq6oxN6GJ6yuwbr4dYr s6uEy7BF/AivwARfTxqrgLeMQVd+kQ3YTV9ACLKuXz60+eO98TXtNVNM/FbnvIr/ Fj4S3yHFN78z02lIR8FKlm6ZaqlS8yXGCfL7aE3NHZWtqySFXdlReJeSKp4YokAo oqYAFbXuJ0ZIACRYEAbyEpVsvdKwLUuahlVmM4xK6P+WuZUHIxbyeWXyXrfbZ2D/ 3k10zIUP47DJM/WO70Fn2G4X/anowk+PRM0bRI6KSJOMH1KTFi9hrjb3NxqV9o9p KoDl+QYQQpJg30fEHNSkY5lUEMjd2od7R3DgzfkVi2nA/fCqZufHirGLFjWTyrDe fvTy/CCP4W4oTZR4CHULADQn5bL1BqBm7RJDkF48HBbGKbEyEelhKgxHITC8VUFv DQ7vIOq7oZ7F59L78ZGLRIvNaZVCB0BITmYZWfCX3SjaFMjDAVxrP8FlyOMjSMyt T5P7Lte1kz0= =L++4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2005-01-16 6:07 ` David Masover @ 2005-01-17 16:46 ` Hans Reiser 2005-01-17 17:12 ` Christian Iversen 2005-01-18 5:08 ` David Masover 0 siblings, 2 replies; 28+ messages in thread From: Hans Reiser @ 2005-01-17 16:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David Masover; +Cc: Job Bob, reiserfs-list David Masover wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > [...] > | > |> > |> To start with, ntfs read access is still case insensitive, last I > |> checked. How deep does that go? > | > | > | In reiser4, it is just a directory plugin. > > Nono -- how do you give Windows, which is case insensitive, access to a > case-sensitive filesystem? For instance, how do you get a Windows-based > backup program to back up a reiser4 partition from a Linux installation, > if it has filenames that are identical except for case? This problem is insoluble. Either make reiser4 case insensitive and use it that way or educate the windows programs or live with bugs. I see no alternative. Do you? > > Or is compatibility not an issue? > > |> 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. > > This was awhile ago, and I forget a lot of the context, but I'm > re-reading this and I agree with myself. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2005-01-17 16:46 ` Hans Reiser @ 2005-01-17 17:12 ` Christian Iversen 2005-01-18 16:37 ` Hans Reiser 2005-01-18 5:08 ` David Masover 1 sibling, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: Christian Iversen @ 2005-01-17 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: reiserfs-list On Monday 17 January 2005 17:46, Hans Reiser wrote: > David Masover wrote: > > Hans Reiser wrote: > > [...] > > > > |> To start with, ntfs read access is still case insensitive, last I > > |> checked. How deep does that go? > > | > > | In reiser4, it is just a directory plugin. > > > > Nono -- how do you give Windows, which is case insensitive, access to a > > case-sensitive filesystem? For instance, how do you get a Windows-based > > backup program to back up a reiser4 partition from a Linux installation, > > if it has filenames that are identical except for case? > > This problem is insoluble. Either make reiser4 case insensitive and use > it that way or educate the windows programs or live with bugs. I see no > alternative. Do you? Actually, NTFS has case-sensitivity-support, but it's turned off by default. I think a fair share of programs _should_ work, even though they all _ought_ to work. Could reiser4 support case-crushing, so it would be more "windows-native"? -- Regards, Christian Iversen ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2005-01-17 17:12 ` Christian Iversen @ 2005-01-18 16:37 ` Hans Reiser 2005-02-01 8:52 ` mjt 0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: Hans Reiser @ 2005-01-18 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Christian Iversen; +Cc: reiserfs-list Christian Iversen wrote: >On Monday 17 January 2005 17:46, Hans Reiser wrote: > > >>David Masover wrote: >> >> >>>Hans Reiser wrote: >>>[...] >>> >>>|> To start with, ntfs read access is still case insensitive, last I >>>|> checked. How deep does that go? >>>| >>>| In reiser4, it is just a directory plugin. >>> >>>Nono -- how do you give Windows, which is case insensitive, access to a >>>case-sensitive filesystem? For instance, how do you get a Windows-based >>>backup program to back up a reiser4 partition from a Linux installation, >>>if it has filenames that are identical except for case? >>> >>> >>This problem is insoluble. Either make reiser4 case insensitive and use >>it that way or educate the windows programs or live with bugs. I see no >>alternative. Do you? >> >> > >Actually, NTFS has case-sensitivity-support, but it's turned off by default. I >think a fair share of programs _should_ work, even though they all _ought_ to >work. > >Could reiser4 support case-crushing, so it would be more "windows-native"? > > > It could, as a plugin. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2005-01-18 16:37 ` Hans Reiser @ 2005-02-01 8:52 ` mjt 2005-02-01 9:59 ` Christian Iversen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: mjt @ 2005-02-01 8:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Hans Reiser; +Cc: Christian Iversen, reiserfs-list On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:37:13AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: >>Could reiser4 support case-crushing, so it would be more "windows-native"? >It could, as a plugin. Reiser4 has a sys interface already, why not add echo 1 > case_crush or somesuch? Shouldn't take a long time to code, but it shouldn't be a priority and no one would really want it, I guess... -- mjt ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2005-02-01 8:52 ` mjt @ 2005-02-01 9:59 ` Christian Iversen 2005-02-02 1:18 ` David Masover 0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: Christian Iversen @ 2005-02-01 9:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: reiserfs-list On Tuesday 01 February 2005 09:52, Markus Törnqvist wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:37:13AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: > >>Could reiser4 support case-crushing, so it would be more > >> "windows-native"? > > > >It could, as a plugin. > > Reiser4 has a sys interface already, why not add echo 1 > case_crush or > somesuch? Shouldn't take a long time to code, but it shouldn't be a > priority and no one would really want it, I guess... I support your idea, but keep in mind that, to make matters worse, windows uses case-insentivity, not case-crushing. This means that the original case has to be saved, but the crushed case has to be searched. I don't know if that's easy with a hash function, but it seems mightly slow to me. -- Regards, Christian Iversen ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2005-02-01 9:59 ` Christian Iversen @ 2005-02-02 1:18 ` David Masover 2005-02-02 8:02 ` Christian Iversen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: David Masover @ 2005-02-02 1:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Christian Iversen; +Cc: reiserfs-list -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christian Iversen wrote: | On Tuesday 01 February 2005 09:52, Markus Törnqvist wrote: | |>On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:37:13AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: |> |>>>Could reiser4 support case-crushing, so it would be more |>>>"windows-native"? |>> |>>It could, as a plugin. |> |>Reiser4 has a sys interface already, why not add echo 1 > case_crush or |>somesuch? Shouldn't take a long time to code, but it shouldn't be a |>priority and no one would really want it, I guess... | | | I support your idea, but keep in mind that, to make matters worse, windows | uses case-insentivity, not case-crushing. This means that the original case | has to be saved, but the crushed case has to be searched. | | I don't know if that's easy with a hash function, but it seems mightly slow to | me. Who said anything about messing with the hash? Why not just add original case as metadata and feed pre-crushed case to the existing hash? Don't think overhead is huge if you're already creating a file. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQgAqfngHNmZLgCUhAQJXSA/8C+sgMtMZXjZBEjB0yYG/9Ccrp86vtchG 64pbwiS81p/Jy0iBGNYkYxzLav25Y7geXSaUNTjjHDyVbom4xkHdjAO6ayDzQDTw kfiVkUVBw5Vrd99svRTHagXjm/KgijWsQD+8SUB2xy0D5qQsC49vse0u2vXHxmhU D/XsyYp4n0f/BKcMeOtg2n+jq22m41SPbluU7DKVN3aE3bvseqCiKupWgsyLrgUy Iyo0IB2b5cY9N2s8MhbFYgoB1HytLyw6PIOZb4gzv60Rhh4CAanScgvkACrRSRRa uDMWgJwmnoWmcmuBlKGz8dqTpO3fwNrBdKJbhL8BWyPvgdEdlqQd+L2x2ST/YGRH Eazd7QHBmU300jAbNMJZlViT1S2VCocnLX6K6fN/PRs1UvypNTDdEf4hoIKOGNoG VL3c65qI02oWoRzusU11M0pfwkTrUW1aAqYUlLAuMNL4xl2+orV8OuWERdIPxm+V widPGgfoaSBSy6orF6ywbtbwd/4PzOUF3CKYjG4mJpX9bGUtCpcBxxFGxTW3zakz SHlaotf4G4szwxpYUSjg+iQ2yo4q/XaPVdXgRR2CaFHb0u5v2LksPltgRE/xfpYg JCK2KBcKdkL5aF6Gkzboir+Pe6KbAjlOrgTsu9c3UvQJU2A77eEvqPDTM7rpx7XS FvTfsqvOvG4= =4YQD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2005-02-02 1:18 ` David Masover @ 2005-02-02 8:02 ` Christian Iversen 0 siblings, 0 replies; 28+ messages in thread From: Christian Iversen @ 2005-02-02 8:02 UTC (permalink / raw) To: reiserfs-list On Wednesday 02 February 2005 02:18, David Masover wrote: > Christian Iversen wrote: > | On Tuesday 01 February 2005 09:52, Markus Törnqvist wrote: > |>On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:37:13AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: > |>>>Could reiser4 support case-crushing, so it would be more > |>>>"windows-native"? > |>> > |>>It could, as a plugin. > |> > |>Reiser4 has a sys interface already, why not add echo 1 > case_crush or > |>somesuch? Shouldn't take a long time to code, but it shouldn't be a > |>priority and no one would really want it, I guess... > | > | I support your idea, but keep in mind that, to make matters worse, > > windows > > | uses case-insentivity, not case-crushing. This means that the original > > case > > | has to be saved, but the crushed case has to be searched. > | > | I don't know if that's easy with a hash function, but it seems mightly > > slow to > > | me. > > Who said anything about messing with the hash? Why not just add > original case as metadata and feed pre-crushed case to the existing > hash? Don't think overhead is huge if you're already creating a file. Well, thinking about it, you seem to be right. I was thinking about something else :) -- Regards, Christian Iversen ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2005-01-17 16:46 ` Hans Reiser 2005-01-17 17:12 ` Christian Iversen @ 2005-01-18 5:08 ` David Masover 2005-01-18 17:03 ` Hans Reiser 1 sibling, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: David Masover @ 2005-01-18 5:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Hans Reiser; +Cc: Job Bob, reiserfs-list -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hans Reiser wrote: | David Masover wrote: | |> Hans Reiser wrote: |> [...] |> | |> |> |> |> To start with, ntfs read access is still case insensitive, last I |> |> checked. How deep does that go? |> | |> | |> | In reiser4, it is just a directory plugin. |> |> Nono -- how do you give Windows, which is case insensitive, access to a |> case-sensitive filesystem? For instance, how do you get a Windows-based |> backup program to back up a reiser4 partition from a Linux installation, |> if it has filenames that are identical except for case? | | | This problem is insoluble. Either make reiser4 case insensitive and use | it that way or educate the windows programs or live with bugs. I see no | alternative. Do you? Mangling. Or case-sensitivity (forget who said that NTFS has that). Or force case-insensitive FSes only. I think all three would work in different situations, and I don't think it would be too difficult to add all three. Just for clarification -- mangling is how VFAT is backwards-compatible with DOS, for example. myreallylongfile.doc becomes MYREAL~1.DOC when viewed from DOS, so that while VFAT should really be read with Windows 95 or better (Linux), it can still be accessed in Dos. This loses information (if a DOS program backs up and restores MYREAL~1.DOC, you lose the long (myreallylongfile.doc) name.) But sometimes there's no alternative, and if you mangle it (instead of just chopping off the end of the filename) you avoid collisions -- that is, if you have: myreallylongfile.doc myreallife.doc then they become MYREAL~1.DOC MYREAL~2.DOC Only question is, where to set which of these to choose (mangle or case sensitivity)? Maybe it could be per-directory, most likely per-mount. But I have no idea how Windows passes mount options ... I don't think it has any mount options at all. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQeyZ5HgHNmZLgCUhAQINmA//WF2s/dtUlBiIf/VHpcN4qUJeTJOitqfC pu6hD9wx8LF/EEfSyY5oSE8XBZaEUshJML8aG8XaOQGL+zLNhUR6oBjesq0wTXq6 8zxGOsH2NcCZNkT/AlO1vaBEBdXDiNGFfIRYx7yC1AIjZ+xkIlkK80PL7sXZBx22 ShLgG6fyKB0bqxygHTNVhL9luml+OrhvwOcOQ7E8+EJ1UE1C1KPcdJz2UiCB7eNd 9lX1NPD+C2BHq6QAg4JBoNr+M3QdIjI6HOhFDgvNbn+fp7dTOGEpsJ8+tlKJCtui n1yyC+94TZyx/2X4k4d0I+9rPfVOjUeZidEoGQCKEmIZ5BEUs8p/1DHQxRXJPXU6 hSJeTdkLkLSoUysM4+ATBSbGcL8pK9oNRmzTUgyLC26AwdBL1lMH98IZgwB7HFoG nFWwWoxMxSheT5terZfDIoP8Ey0DefTPw13FWfP3Kjxunk72QJgjEBaY/NRPM0PQ MJoOn2hCCi4pCZ6cWec3RScF83EhD2J4oyj/BE+6+dCOlfMevY29xVr9BaIXZyYQ xARt3LfM6G/hTLhivDigefkboY9cOMuTi33R1cDpwwBlHGN+ZlzE948swn2tFW/Q /oyNtr6isHN4uU3b3Sg2qVeLUSTOG9chYSCed8wOio/ttuyzekrG6u0vWoSGz1Ms 9Zq8uDXIrkw= =uirN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2005-01-18 5:08 ` David Masover @ 2005-01-18 17:03 ` Hans Reiser 0 siblings, 0 replies; 28+ messages in thread From: Hans Reiser @ 2005-01-18 17:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: David Masover; +Cc: Job Bob, reiserfs-list David Masover wrote: > > > Hans Reiser wrote: > | David Masover wrote: > | > |> Hans Reiser wrote: > |> [...] > |> | > |> |> > |> |> To start with, ntfs read access is still case insensitive, last I > |> |> checked. How deep does that go? > |> | > |> | > |> | In reiser4, it is just a directory plugin. > |> > |> Nono -- how do you give Windows, which is case insensitive, access to a > |> case-sensitive filesystem? For instance, how do you get a > Windows-based > |> backup program to back up a reiser4 partition from a Linux > installation, > |> if it has filenames that are identical except for case? > | > | > | This problem is insoluble. Either make reiser4 case insensitive and use > | it that way or educate the windows programs or live with bugs. I see no > | alternative. Do you? > > Mangling. Or case-sensitivity (forget who said that NTFS has that). Or > force case-insensitive FSes only. I think all three would work in > different situations, and I don't think it would be too difficult to add > all three. Ok, so it is soluble. > > Just for clarification -- mangling is how VFAT is backwards-compatible > with DOS, for example. myreallylongfile.doc becomes MYREAL~1.DOC when > viewed from DOS, so that while VFAT should really be read with Windows > 95 or better (Linux), it can still be accessed in Dos. > > This loses information (if a DOS program backs up and restores > MYREAL~1.DOC, you lose the long (myreallylongfile.doc) name.) But > sometimes there's no alternative, and if you mangle it (instead of just > chopping off the end of the filename) you avoid collisions -- that is, > if you have: > > myreallylongfile.doc > myreallife.doc > > then they become > > MYREAL~1.DOC > MYREAL~2.DOC > > > > Only question is, where to set which of these to choose (mangle or case > sensitivity)? Maybe it could be per-directory, most likely per-mount. > But I have no idea how Windows passes mount options ... I don't think it > has any mount options at all. > well, all this assumes we have resources to spare from debugging reiser4 for linux.....;-) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-05 4:00 ` Hans Reiser 2004-12-05 4:54 ` David Masover @ 2004-12-05 8:14 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando 2004-12-05 7:37 ` David Masover 1 sibling, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando @ 2004-12-05 8:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Hans Reiser; +Cc: Job Bob, reiserfs-list 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. > Hans, Despite about this. The MS dominance is going down, and therefore have no sense. I never suppose you will found the same 'good' enviroment including C Compiler filters, and other tools that only UNIX and GNU/Linux offers. Thanks, Giovanni. -- -- -- Check FT Websites ... http://www.futuretg.com - ftp://ftp.futuretg.com http://www.FTLinuxCourse.com http://www.FTLinuxCourse.com/Certification http://www.rpmparadaise.org http://GNULinuxUtilities.com http://www.YourPersonalOperatingSystem.com WorldWide Global Mobile: +39 393 665 4239 -- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-05 8:14 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando @ 2004-12-05 7:37 ` David Masover 0 siblings, 0 replies; 28+ messages in thread From: David Masover @ 2004-12-05 7:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando; +Cc: Hans Reiser, Job Bob, reiserfs-list -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote: | 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. |> | Hans, | | Despite about this. The MS dominance is going down, and therefore | have no sense. | | I never suppose you will found the same 'good' enviroment | including C Compiler | filters, and other tools that only UNIX and GNU/Linux offers. Define "good"? There's cygwin. There's also numerous commercial software development suites. I'm not advocating Windows development, but the things that are not "good" are going to be the interfaces one has to deal with when writing a driver. No doubt if you get this working and it gets popular (free or not), MS will change some API thing that only affects you and three other apps no one cares about, and send it with a "security update". If I ever develop for Windows, I pray to all that is holy that I will be able to use some portability toolkit or virtual machine, neither of which would work very well for a modern FS. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBQbK6qngHNmZLgCUhAQKcZw/+K9edryj4cFsxBjn/KtuNXiBvt/1gePFs sde/MJydtFJE8k0lEYmMdQDOizuF0iUZcyK2wgEsmNUQHVAJifwvrPrF29dpTF/a bGbAcn4qtWyQvPYUIM1Zf7S07Q1j628P2Vxwiy8v0CMZRfR1gJAnPcJNVARBKEqM C+WrZgjqt6qUx2yk8cfqDOSQ8z3ABlhrljPymDocIF9texuYrDEGG/dlfuTZwP8z LSmTL4Hz25v6ahXVLufcashN9xcNLhygX3EO3DSW/+T0UB5iYS3QAhLp/X/wDprB J74jF97KyrzAF7V14qufRJmxdcbomUWJogWpQsA++m+Vsq1gyxw3aws2HAr/NJdV LSm3x3Ktv3u6ROs3a3ZyI63oLUwD1GcVC3JsR42zuztyjEjW5rOhBIbGWYCMYa5q TisQpZwb/bnbBZqNTPJWWOPJyf3+kU7IvZJbAJiPhdUoattr3Ce+2nncule9YVWf 5fUGv6sbd4WMeQ920KtLvEmyL6sZE67fXqwqA2T8M9ZSr7lI4jp5jav53mMlZ3jv 5kZTMSA1JQ8uAola+k3MYoJ5pMnjTM/iFpUrQY77jNCUUhAscu3vdXSjfkG1bSpr Ced4PfeiHtFqsWrLQZOSQVtA8hCm9zDjSk6LY3F1l6hvyoIkzXIF/s1TmuF8266z /GcKixV3rR4= =p/Ux -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-04 21:10 reiser4 for windows Job Bob 2004-12-05 1:57 ` Hans Reiser 2004-12-05 4:00 ` Hans Reiser @ 2004-12-06 2:31 ` Jonathan Briggs 2004-12-06 4:17 ` Tierra 2 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: Jonathan Briggs @ 2004-12-06 2:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: reiserfs-list [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1057 bytes --] On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 13:10 -0800, Job Bob wrote: > I know that this question has a fairly obvious > answer, but is there or will there be a reiser4 driver > for Windows? Microsoft will only make one if enough > people use reiser4, otherwise hell will freeze before > they do. The free software people seem to suffer from > NIH syndrome, so they probably won't help either. That > only leaves individuals or companies. Any ideas on > when we might we a reiser4 driver for windows? > > Yale There are ext2/3 and reiserfs access programs for Windows. They are not implemented as Windows filesystem drivers. I do not know if this is because of technical difficulties or Windows vs. GPL licensing problems. Most of them bring up the filesystem in a Windows Explorerish interface. You can then copy files in or out. I don't see any reasons why someone willing to do the work couldn't adapt one of those programs to interface to Reiser4. -- Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com> eSoft, Inc. [-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-06 2:31 ` Jonathan Briggs @ 2004-12-06 4:17 ` Tierra 2004-12-06 14:55 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando 0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: Tierra @ 2004-12-06 4:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jonathan Briggs; +Cc: reiserfs-list On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:31:29 -0700, Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com> wrote: > There are ext2/3 and reiserfs access programs for Windows. They are not > implemented as Windows filesystem drivers. I do not know if this is > because of technical difficulties or Windows vs. GPL licensing problems. > > Most of them bring up the filesystem in a Windows Explorerish interface. > You can then copy files in or out. You mean much like rfstool? http://www.p-nand-q.com/download/rfstool.html I've seen other reiserfs GUI tools, all pretty much are a wrapper around the above library (including my own). But I've never seen anything with write access, just read-only. Also, AFAIK, Gerson Kurz has no plans of working on that project anymore, so it's a limited few who could pull off a Reiser4 Windows library. Bryan Petty ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-06 4:17 ` Tierra @ 2004-12-06 14:55 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando 0 siblings, 0 replies; 28+ messages in thread From: Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando @ 2004-12-06 14:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Tierra, Reiserfs mail-list Tierra wrote: >On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:31:29 -0700, Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com> wrote: > > >>There are ext2/3 and reiserfs access programs for Windows. They are not >>implemented as Windows filesystem drivers. I do not know if this is >>because of technical difficulties or Windows vs. GPL licensing problems. >> >>Most of them bring up the filesystem in a Windows Explorerish interface. >>You can then copy files in or out. >> >> > >You mean much like rfstool? >http://www.p-nand-q.com/download/rfstool.html > > This seems cool. May be there are a use with programs like Ghost that backup also Linux partitions, and probably now will found all the Linux partitions including reiserfs. I don't see other use. What was interesting was to install MS Windows on a ReiserFS partitions and probably there are a way to do using GNU/Linux, not windows. I neither see any screeshot on this website regarding the program. Under pictures, I found images about Florence, Rome, and other ruins. Seems this person loves ruins and want to enable them in futuristic technologies like Reiser. ... Is better to discard Ruins. Ruins represent the past like MS Windows :-) :-D Thanks, Giovanni. >I've seen other reiserfs GUI tools, all pretty much are a wrapper >around the above library (including my own). But I've never seen >anything with write access, just read-only. Also, AFAIK, Gerson Kurz >has no plans of working on that project anymore, so it's a limited few >who could pull off a Reiser4 Windows library. > >Bryan Petty > > > -- -- -- Check FT Websites ... http://www.futuretg.com - ftp://ftp.futuretg.com http://www.FTLinuxCourse.com http://www.FTLinuxCourse.com/Certification http://www.rpmparadaise.org http://GNULinuxUtilities.com http://www.YourPersonalOperatingSystem.com WorldWide Global Mobile: +39 393 665 4239 -- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows @ 2004-12-07 6:07 Jiri Klouda 2004-12-07 8:29 ` Redeeman 0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: Jiri Klouda @ 2004-12-07 6:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Reiserfs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1627 bytes --] > 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. > 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 -- Jiri Klouda <jk@zg.cz> http://www.zg.cz/~jk [-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-07 6:07 Jiri Klouda @ 2004-12-07 8:29 ` Redeeman 2004-12-08 1:40 ` Spam 0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: Redeeman @ 2004-12-07 8:29 UTC (permalink / raw) 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 <redeeman@metanurb.dk> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-07 8:29 ` Redeeman @ 2004-12-08 1:40 ` Spam 2004-12-08 4:38 ` David Masover 0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: Spam @ 2004-12-08 1:40 UTC (permalink / raw) 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. Aren't there? Isn't there various compression systems, not to mention PGP disk? Maybe it is not the same thing... >> >> 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. Yes, NTFS only has hard links, not symlinks =(. I have myself been wanting to use symlinks a lot. >> >> 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. Will disk access over LAN really be anything close to as fast as a real local harddisk, especially if you have to run over Samba? Oh, just noticed you said this in the next paragraph =). Windows can be run from a network drive. Steam, on the other hand prevents network drives for the same reason it has CD checks. It is all about preventing users from running copies. >> >> 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... :( It is easy to say these things. But really, for lots of applications and uses there is only MacOSX that can compete. Linux has yet a far way to go when it comes to normal desktop and workstation usage. Hardcore and relatively skillful users have no problems with Linux as a desktop environment, but the "gray mass" does. KDE and Gnome are improving fast though =). Anyway, that is another discussion not really for this forum. ~S >> >> -Jiri >> ´ -- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-08 1:40 ` Spam @ 2004-12-08 4:38 ` David Masover 2004-12-08 7:50 ` Radovan Garabik 0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread From: David Masover @ 2004-12-08 4:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Spam; +Cc: Reiserfs Mailinglist -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Spam wrote: |>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. | | | Aren't there? Isn't there various compression systems, not to | mention PGP disk? Maybe it is not the same thing... Not exactly. Is there an XFS for Windows? What about JFS? What about Minix? Sure, some filesystems have apps that allow access, but I don't think I've seen one that provides an actual filesystem driver (not plugin). I do occasionally hear of them, though. | |>>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. | | | Yes, NTFS only has hard links, not symlinks =(. I have myself been | wanting to use symlinks a lot. | |>>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. | | | Will disk access over LAN really be anything close to as fast as a | real local harddisk, especially if you have to run over Samba? Oh, | just noticed you said this in the next paragraph =). Depends. Some networks are faster than hard disks. Also, there's Lustre, if there's ever an open source fork. | Windows can be run from a network drive. Steam, on the other hand | prevents network drives for the same reason it has CD checks. It is | all about preventing users from running copies. Well, yes, only it's a stupid measure. Their main copy protection is that Steam connects to the Internet whenever it can, so users cannot _run_ multiple copies. This is the right approach, but any solution still needs to support apps which use the wrong approach. Still, programs have been fooled before by things like clonecd and an emulation drive. |>>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... :( | | | It is easy to say these things. But really, for lots of applications | and uses there is only MacOSX that can compete. Linux has yet a far | way to go when it comes to normal desktop and workstation usage. | Hardcore and relatively skillful users have no problems with Linux | as a desktop environment, but the "gray mass" does. KDE and Gnome | are improving fast though =). Anyway, that is another discussion not | really for this forum. My mother uses Linux. My mother did not know what Windows was until I explained it to her. It is for another forum, but in reality, the only reason to use Windows is applications that don't work well under Wine and have no viable substitutes. For most people, this is a problem of perception. The only things I have real problems with are exotic hardware (which most people can afford to not buy) and games, and the hardware is something I have as many problems with Windows as anything else. (The X-Port won't work on anything other than Windows 98 or Windows ME.) This is relevent to reiser4, in a way. The problem is not that Linux has a way to go when it comes to normal desktop/workstation usage. The problem is that it isn't better enough for most people to switch. Why do you think nobody uses MacOSX? The momentum has to be broken by something really cool, the way Halo made the Xbox popular. If Steam moved exclusively to Linux, then virtually all gamers would either follow or dual-boot, definitely in time for Half-Life 3. Why is this relevant to this forum? Because the same problem exists for Reiser4. Metadata bugs aside, it isn't "better enough" yet. 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* Re: reiser4 for windows 2004-12-08 4:38 ` David Masover @ 2004-12-08 7:50 ` Radovan Garabik 0 siblings, 0 replies; 28+ messages in thread From: Radovan Garabik @ 2004-12-08 7:50 UTC (permalink / raw) To: reiserfs-list On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:38:08PM -0600, David Masover wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Spam wrote: > |>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. > | > | > | Aren't there? Isn't there various compression systems, not to > | mention PGP disk? Maybe it is not the same thing... > > Not exactly. Is there an XFS for Windows? What about JFS? What about > Minix? Sure, some filesystems have apps that allow access, but I don't > think I've seen one that provides an actual filesystem driver (not > plugin). I do occasionally hear of them, though. There is an ext2 filesystem for Win98. I used it extensively some time ago. It had reliable read-only support and an experimental read write one (which I did not try). However, I do not remember if it supported symlinks (it for sure did not support unix permissions - it could not, if you think about it) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 28+ messages in thread
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