From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Mar 3 13: 4:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from thebsh.namesys.com (thebsh.namesys.com [212.16.7.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6747B37B416 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 13:04:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10180 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2002 21:04:44 -0000 Received: from backtop.namesys.com (HELO namesys.com) (212.16.7.71) by thebsh.namesys.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2002 21:04:44 -0000 Message-ID: <3C821066.1030604@namesys.com> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 15:00:38 +0300 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020123 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bradley Kite Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] Reiserfs on Freebsd References: <20020301221306.A12425@deathsgate.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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. > >-- >Bradley Kite. > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message