From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Piper Subject: ReiserFS IFSD for Windows Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 12:59:33 -0400 Message-ID: <42838B75.1000605@cs.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com This summer, I will be starting a 3.5-month project to create an Installable File System Driver (IFSD) to read ReiserFS under Microsoft Windows, similar to ext2fsd. (The project is a practicum to complete my degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon.) I have three questions: * Is anyone out there interested in using the tool as it is developed? * Is anyone out there interested in mentoring the development of the tool? (This basically consists of answering specific technical questions when they arise.) * Other than compliance to the GPL, are there any other liscensing factors I should be aware of? For anyone interested, my initial plan is to port the read-only ReiserFS 3 code from the GRUB bootloader, and turn it into an IFSD using the same techniques as in ext2fsd -- although I'd love to hear other ideas, and opinions of whether the project might be feasible with ReiserFS 4. Thanks, Mark Piper