From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Mar 3 14:32:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from deathsgate.demon.co.uk (deathsgate.demon.co.uk [193.237.157.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39F937B405 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:32:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bradley@localhost) by deathsgate.demon.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g23MXuW18838; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:33:56 GMT (envelope-from bradley) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:32:34 +0000 From: Bradley Kite To: Hans Reiser Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] Reiserfs on Freebsd Message-ID: <20020303223234.A18802@deathsgate.demon.co.uk> References: <20020301221306.A12425@deathsgate.demon.co.uk> <3C821066.1030604@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3C821066.1030604@namesys.com>; from reiser@namesys.com on Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 03:00:38PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 03:00:38PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > No one is doing it. Be aware that ReiserFS is GPL'd, and that you need > to maintain the GPL when doing the port. > > It is a very large job you are taking on. Are you sure you want to > commit that much time without a commercial sponsor paying for it? (We > have not done the port ourselves because no one will pay for it.) > > Hans Hi there Hans. I am mearly looking at the feasibility of porting it to FreeBSD at present and have not fully commited myself to it yet, as I still have a lot of studying to do (both with regards to linux's implementaion, as well as FreeBSD's VFS details). Should I decide to go ahead with it, I think it best I do a read-only version at first which seems like a much easier task than writing the journaling code etc, and solves my problem of convenience (accessing files on my ReiserFS partition from within FreeBSD). This should hopefully encourage others to consider adding write support in the future, but it is not my main objective. If I do go ahead with writing the read-only implementaion, I will deal with the licensing issue as I get to it, because it may well be easier to start from scratch than to untangle ReiserFS from the Linux kernel. -- Brad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message