From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: reiser4 for windows Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:39:27 -0800 Message-ID: <41E9D3DF.1060508@namesys.com> References: <20041204211059.41930.qmail@web50908.mail.yahoo.com> <41B287C6.2060902@namesys.com> <41B29491.20405@slaphack.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: <41B29491.20405@slaphack.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: David Masover Cc: Job Bob , reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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. >