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From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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Subject: Re: NTFS write support
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Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've finally got Win XP as the second OS on my mahcine. The next
> thing I've found is that NTFS support still seems to be read-only,
> and it does not look like anybody is actively working on it.
> So adding the NTFS write support looks like an interesting
> project to undertake.
>
> Just in case, if anybody working on it already, please let me know.
> Any kinds of ready pointers to the good docs would be welcome.
> Or to the existing implementations too (Linux?).

Have a look at the "fuse" port. There's ntfs support for fuse somewhere in
ports too.

Having a better native ntfs would be great, but beware, don't contaminate the
current code with GPLed code.

Bye,
Alexander.

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