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	Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Re: NTFS write support
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Hi!

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:18:35AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote:

> >I think ntfsprogs (in the ports tree) does everything in userland, and they
> >claim to have stable write support. The homepage is here:
> >    http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
> >They also have some documentation there.
> 
> They also have some docs. Not very readable but seems to have
> quite a few details. Time to do some reading.

My opinion is that from-scratch implementation is not possible within
reasonable period of time. I'd suggest to try to port captive ntfs + fuse
framework or (oh my! I did not tell you that) extend ndisulator so that it
is possible to load ntfs.sys directly into the kernel.

/fjoe