Re: ReiserFS IFSD for Windows

[Bedros Hanounik <2bedros@gmail.com>]

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I'll be interested in testing your code. I have an old 20GB HD which I can 
play with. 

Currently, I have a USB drive formatted in NTFS, because, I want it to be 
accessible by friend's XP machine in case of emergencies. and I would 
convert it to ReiserFS once your code is stable enough.

having a read only mode is fine with me; write mode would be a nice option, 
but it's not important in my case.

My impression is Hans doesn't like the Idea, but a stripped down version of 
ReiserFS driver for windows could be a good thing, and encourages more 
people to use ReiserFS.


-Bedros


On 5/12/05, Mark Piper <mwp@cs.cmu.edu> 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 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
> 
>

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