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

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

keep up the awesome work guys!

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey at reactos.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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