Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:21:46 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> To: Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for msdosfs/ntfs experts (or better, maintainers) Message-ID: <20111014112146.GA80058@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20111014085405.GA3711@tops> References: <20111013181602.GA35354@regency.nsu.ru> <20111014085405.GA3711@tops>
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:54:05AM +0300, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: > > Case 2. Apparently, Apple actually released their NTFS implementation > > under BSD license which seems quite worthy to take a look at: > > > > http://opensource.apple.com/source/ntfs/ntfs-78/kext/ > > > Sounds very interesting. I'd peek it up and do a FreeBSD port, but I > won't be able to start at least in two months. I've just started > reviewing and testing this year FUSE GSoC project. It works quite ok for > me (ntfs, encfs), no more random panics etc. > > Question remains if it's worth doing the port from darwin if we have > working fuse ntfs. Real in-kernel FS implementation should be faster; also, some people do not like extra level (that is, fuse) sitting between their data and system. > How mature darwin implementation is? Is there public source repository > with history? If this code is what they actually use in Mac OS X, I would assume it should be at least not worse than ours. :-) As for public repo, perhaps it could be arranged if we contact Apple and/or Anton Altaparmakov (assuming he is the author of this code). ./danfe
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