Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:05:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: =?UTF-8?B?SmVhbi1Tw6liYXN0aWVuIFDDqWRyb24=?= <jspedron@club-internet.fr> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for feedback about ReiserFS import Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0505110004210.9902-100000@opal> In-Reply-To: <427F491C.4090501@club-internet.fr>
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Hmm. Reiser4 is already released and is better than ReiserFS... On Mon, 9 May 2005, [UTF-8] Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron wrote: > Hi everyone, >=20 > The current port of ReiserFS is ready to be imported in the tree for a > few months, however my mentor mux@ and I have concerns about the > organization of the sources of this version. >=20 > Originally, the port is based on Linux 2.6.7. My goal was to distribute > it as a 3rd party package, maybe a port. Because I was interested in > kernel development and how ReiserFS was working, I started from scratch, > bringing the necessary pieces of code from Linux little by little, to > achieve read-only support. >=20 > The main issue with this approach is maintainability: the filenames and > source layout is different between the original Linux version and the > port. Changes in the Linux tree are harder to track. >=20 > I'd like to import this version in FreeBSD's tree, because: > - ReiserFS' homepage (http://www.namesys.com/) says it shouldn't evolve > anymore (just rare bugfixes). For instance, between Linux 2.6.7 and > 2.6.11.3, they added a few checks of functions' return code. > - with my approach, I have a better knowledge of the filesystem > internals. If we want a BSD licensed version, it should be easier. > - work is more interesting this way than just make the Linux version > compile. > - it's already done ;) >=20 > But I know that the tradition is to import external code with changes as > less intrusive as possible, for good reason. Does anyone has objections > for this? >=20 > -- > Jean-S=C3=A9bastien P=C3=A9dron > http://www.dumbbell.fr/ >=20 > PGP Key: http://www.dumbbell.fr/pgp/pubkey.asc >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20
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