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Date:      Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:20:07 -0500
From:      John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, babkin@users.sourceforge.net
Cc:        Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>
Subject:   Re: NTFS write support
Message-ID:  <200602131220.07879.lists@jnielsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <28971430.1139850125662.JavaMail.root@vms172.mailsrvcs.net>
References:  <28971430.1139850125662.JavaMail.root@vms172.mailsrvcs.net>

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On Monday 13 February 2006 12:02, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> >From: Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>
> >
> >On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:41:04PM -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> >> I've finally got Win XP as the second OS on my mahcine. The next
> >> thing I've found is that NTFS support still seems to be read-only,
> >> and it does not look like anybody is actively working on it.
> >> So adding the NTFS write support looks like an interesting
> >> project to undertake.
> >>
> >> Just in case, if anybody working on it already, please let me know.
> >> Any kinds of ready pointers to the good docs would be welcome.
> >> Or to the existing implementations too (Linux?).
> >
> >http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
>
> Interesting. Though I'm pretty sure that MS is going to object
> strongly to any usage of their drivers outside of their OS.
> Donwload it quickly before the MS lawyers have shown up.

Captive NTFS doesn't actually include any ntfs drivers.  The user must supply 
their own copy (presumably obtained through legitimate means) which the 
captive framework then uses.

JN



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