From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 27 8:11:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kweetal.tue.nl (kweetal.tue.nl [131.155.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7E337B6D4 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 08:11:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcov@toad.stack.nl) Received: from hermes.tue.nl [131.155.2.46] by kweetal.tue.nl (8.9.3) for id RAA09529 (ESMTP); Sat, 27 May 2000 17:11:09 +0200 (MDT) Received: from deathstar (n177.dial.tue.nl [131.155.209.176]) by hermes.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277092E803 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 17:11:05 +0200 (CEST) From: "Marco van de Voort" To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:12:21 +0100 Subject: Re: file creation times ? References: <00May25.131527est.115222@border.alcanet.com.au> In-reply-to: <20000526174804.8C0E72E802@hermes.tue.nl> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Message-Id: <20000527151105.277092E803@hermes.tue.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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