[ros-dev] A reimplementation of reactos' cache manager supporting alternate filesystems better (including ext2)

[Aleksey Bragin]

That's great! This gives me more motivation to finish the fastfat  
rewrite and test your branch with that driver.


On Nov 9, 2009, at 12:21 PM, <ayerkes at speakeasy.net>  
<ayerkes at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce that I've been able to boot reactos to the  
> shell from an ext2 partition.  This is something we've wanted for a  
> long time and many of us have worked on.  I've synced up arty-newcc  
> to the current state of my git repository.  This work is  
> experimental, not quite complete, and has some important limitations:
>
> - It probably won't currently work for a partition larger than 4gig  
> and might even fail for one larger than 2gig.  This limitation is  
> lifted by other, unrelated code in my tree that I haven't merged yet.
>
> - It probably has a lot more bugs left, especially in block  
> allocation for large files.
>
> - Some parts of the new section implementation leak pages.
>
> I was planning to, but haven't yet made the new and old cache and  
> cc and section implementations available side by side.  The main  
> work of separating the new files involved in the section  
> implementation (now in ntoskrnl/mm/section/*) is done. This will be  
> necessary when I merge it into the main tree, at least for  
> regression testing.
>
> Despite the branch being named for me, I invite anyone to work on,  
> modify, or bugfix arty-newcc.  This advance has been a long time  
> coming, and I'd like to thank everyone for keeping the faith.