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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: ReiserFS IFSD for Windows
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:10:51 -0700
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To: David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>
Cc: Mark Piper <mwp@cs.cmu.edu>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

David Masover wrote:

> Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> >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).
>
>
> Could COW really be a plugin?
>
Sure, or inheritance or quite a few others.