FreeLists / openbeosstorage / [openbeosstorage] Re: Partitioning rethink

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Wow, I really had a lot of unanswered mail. Sorry for taking so 
> > long on
> > most of these; I spent a great deal of time in bed with the flu 
> > last
> > week. :-(
> Hope, you're better now.

Me too!

> > Pending Ingo's approval, what do you guys think about including 
> > Reiser
> > support in the main cvs, too=3F
> No problem in principle, except maybe, that it is GPLed. I'm not sure 
> what
> the official politics regarding code governed by the GPL is, though. 
> If it
> is a separate component, like a FS add-on (or any add-on), it 
> shouldn't
> do any harm.

I think so, too. We *will* have many GPL'd applications anyway, and I 
think the ReiserFS would be a nice addition.

> > IMHO, it'd be good for us to include
> > out-of-the-box support for as many of the following as we can: bfs,
> > iso9660, fat, ext2/3, reiser, udf, ntfs, cdda.
> No need to make haste, I suppose, since they'll need to be ported to 
> the
> new API anyway. So, we may as well wait until we have some time to do
> that.

Exactly - for now, the two file systems in our repository are for R5, 
and I still haven't completed the OpenBeOS FS API yet.

Adios...
   Axel.