From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: reiser4 for windows Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 22:54:41 -0600 Message-ID: <41B29491.20405@slaphack.com> References: <20041204211059.41930.qmail@web50908.mail.yahoo.com> <41B287C6.2060902@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <41B287C6.2060902@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Hans Reiser Cc: Job Bob , reiserfs-list@namesys.com -----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-----