[haiku-development] Re: GSOC Idea Suggestion
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:54:55 +0100 CET
> Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2009-03-25 at 14:55:55 [+0100], Ziyu Yu <yuziyumail@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > > Haiku already has a read-only ext3 file system. If you think
> > > > you
> > > > can
> > > > add write-support, that would be useful. I cannot judge if the
> > > > amount
> > > > of work is appropriate for three months.
> > > Maybe write support for Ext3,reiserfs, and UDF is large enough
> > > for
> > > a gsoc
> > > project?
> > > I'm not familiar with later two filesystems, but I think things
> > > may
> > > be
> > > similar..
> > I would make an application for the one file system that you are
> > most
> > comfortable with, and then mention that you could keep working on
> > other
> > filesystems if there is still time left. However, testing needs to
> > be
> > throughrough and may be time consuming. So that shouldn't be
> > underestimated. :-)
>
> While a read-only FS can usually be written pretty fast (depending on
> what kind of structures the FS is using), write access is not that
> easily done. But since we have a userland file system, maybe we can
> port libext2 to that one -- I guess it doesn't support ext4 yet,
> though.
Or subliminally induce Ted Tso to port ext4 :D
I still need to mail him about xattrs btw...
François.
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