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From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:36:23PM +0000, Joao Barros wrote:
> 
> I read (I think on ntfs-3g website) that one of the developers was
> working for Apple specifically to fully support NTFS on OSX. If this
> is to be true, Apple willing to give this code to FreeBSD, would make
> it another interesting solution IMHO.

But NTFS-3G is FUSE-based.  OTOH, Mac OS X has a native read-only
NTFS driver apparently inherited from FreeBSD.  Unfortunately there
isn't much for the two projects to share in this area: Just reading
from NTFS is almost trivial, and the rest is system-specific VFS
stuff.

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Yar