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Date:      Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:29:06 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Accessing NTFS partitions
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990103172906.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <368E804E.3B8FA4D9@uk.radan.com>

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On 02-Jan-99 Mark Ovens wrote:
> Sue Blake wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 03:19:57PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
>> > On 02-Jan-99 Mark Ovens wrote:
>> >
>> > Yeah, but both he and I never found any documentation regarding
>> > writing to NTFS drives since MS is reluctant to hand out specs.

> I'm sure I've seen a book (by Microsoft Press IIRC) that is all about
> the NT filesystem. I'll see if I can track it down.

Don't bother... It isn't technical information. What Semen needs is a
description about $MFT and how to modify that...

>> So what's stopping it from being pulled in to save all this hassle?
>> It'd be another incentive for people who are considering moving from NT
>> to some kind of unix to try FreeBSD.

> Another good point. I think there is a lot of active development going
> on though as the versions have moved form 0.6 to 0.9 in pretty rapid
> succession ( the only reason that it's taken me this long to get round
> to trying it is that all previous versions I d/l'd gunzip complained
> were corrupt).

Heh, he was a little overzealous whenever I reported back bugs... But I have
to say, it was pretty stable from start... I dunno how stable it needs to be
before one could submit it for a commit.

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asmodai(at)wxs.nl                         I wait and I wait...
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