From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: ReiserFS IFSD for Windows Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:14:32 -0700 Message-ID: <4284EE88.2020309@namesys.com> References: <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 In-Reply-To: <42838B75.1000605@cs.cmu.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Mark Piper Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Mark Piper wrote: > 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 would prefer that you not do it. Namesys believes that people who use proprietary operating systems should pay to use reiserfs. I can suggest quite a few other tasks that would make a more impressive practicum (copy on write links, various other new and needed plugins). > > 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 > > > > >