Read-only ReiserFS support for FreeBSD 5.x

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

Kalev Lember wrote:
> Good job!

Thanks a lot :)

> One of the things I have missed in FreeBSD is a good journaling 
> filesystem. This is one of the places where Linux beats BSD: Linux 
> supports far more filesystems that the BSDs do.

This was the first reason why I started this port: after my Linux box
was broken (hardware issue), I couldn't read any of its partitions from
the FreeBSD box. Supporting multiple file-systems is therefore useful in
such cases. The downside of this is that it consumes a lot of time to
support every file-systems; time that could be used on just one.

> Writing a journaling filesystem from scratch is not a trivial thing to 
> do, however. Maybe we should consider using ReiserFS or some other 
> journaling one as FreeBSD's primary filesystem now that the 6-current is 
> branched?
> 
> One of the issues with ReiserFS is the licence of course.

If ReiserFS should be integrated to FreeBSD, a rewrite would be a good
thing, because this first port fits the Linux VFS "phylosophy" and
doesn't take advantage of FreeBSD's one. If 6-CURRENT brings a new VFS,
it could be the occasion to do it.

-- 
Jean-Sébastien Pédron
http://www.dumbbell-fr.net/

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