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

[James Walmsley]

Hi,

The other day I had an idea. Because Linux has already many
file-systems, would it not be possible to simply make a generic FS
driver, that simply wraps around the Linux fs model?

I'm sure the linux and windows models are quite different when it
comes to their overall architecture.

The advantage of doing this would be that we'd have instant access to
well tested and maintained code.

This is essentially what Aleksey is doing with my FullFAT library,
albeit with a few small modifications.

Kind Regards

James

2009/11/9 Aleksey Bragin <aleksey at reactos.org>:
> 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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