From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: reiser4 for windows Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:07:51 -0600 Message-ID: <41EA04B7.3050606@slaphack.com> References: <20041204211059.41930.qmail@web50908.mail.yahoo.com> <41B287C6.2060902@namesys.com> <41B29491.20405@slaphack.com> <41E9D3DF.1060508@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: <41E9D3DF.1060508@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: [...] | |> |> 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-----