Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:12:21 +0100 From: "Marco van de Voort" <marcov@stack.nl> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file creation times ? Message-ID: <20000527151105.277092E803@hermes.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20000526174804.8C0E72E802@hermes.tue.nl> References: <00May25.131527est.115222@border.alcanet.com.au>
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> I know very little of filesystems, but I know that NTFS is extensible > (and supports several file strains). So probably that is not a limitation of NTFS, > but of the NT implementation of it. > > E.g. Mac stuff is stored in an extra strain, extra attributes can be stored in > the MFS etc etc. One could write a *nix NTFS driver that supported NFS > metadata. Whoops, that should be MFT (Master File Table) not MFS. Probably got confused by all those MFS messages :-) And btw there is afaik also no reason why a new NTFS driver couldn't be developped for NT (that supported NFS metadata). NTFS support is according to the docs a separate module. (but that is the theory, not practice) Marco van de Voort (MarcoV@Stack.nl or marco@freepascal.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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