From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Mar 3 15: 8: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C9837B405 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 15:07:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E69D87830F; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:37:54 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:37:54 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Hans Reiser Cc: Bradley Kite , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] Reiserfs on Freebsd Message-ID: <20020304093754.A29231@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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 In-Reply-To: <3C821066.1030604@namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Sunday, 3 March 2002 at 15:00:38 +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > Bradley Kite wrote: > >> Hi there. >> >> I currently have too much time on my hands and am looking >> into the possibilities (and feasibility) of implementing ReiserFS >> on FreeBSD. >> >> Does any body know if someone is currently doing this? I dont want to >> duplicate the effort involved, and would much rather join an >> existing project that is trying to achieve the same thing. >> >> Also, (correct me if I am wrong), I believe that the main ReiserFS >> code can remain pritty much the same, and only the parts where it >> interfaces with the VFS, and low-level device drivers would need >> to be changed in order to port it over to FreeBSD. This is just a guess >> tho, as I havent really had a propper look at the reiserFS code yet. >> >> Any guidance/advice will be much appreciated. > > No one is doing it. Be aware that ReiserFS is GPL'd, and that you > need to maintain the GPL when doing the port. Yes, we've discussed this already wrt jfs. The requirements are relatively easy to fulfil. > 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.) Agreed, this is not a task to be taken lightly. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message