Read-only ReiserFS support for FreeBSD 5.x

[Jean-Sébastien Pédron]

Ryan Sommers wrote:
> First off, nice job. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but I just
> thought about this the other day and was wondering what the performance of
> Reiser would be on FreeBSD.

Thank you ! About performance, this current port is slower than the
original Linux code, because it adds a few malloc() that could be
avoided I guess. The problem is I don't know how to use the locking systems.

> I'm not sure how all the developers feel about GPL'd software in the
> kernel, although the sound of a BSD licensed one sounds tastey.

Actually, the mount_reiserfs command is under the BSD license, it's not
so bad ;)

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


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