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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Some questions about Dynamic disks support in FreeBSD and about
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Peter E. Antonov wrote:

>    Whether support of the dynamic disks created in Windows XP/2000 is
> planned in the near future?

I'm not aware of any projects to implement this on FreeBSD.

>    And how affairs with support NTFS are?

It seems to work for most cases. Note the restrictions under WRITING on
the mount_ntfs(8) manpage.

>    Some links:
>    http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ - project implements
>    the first full read/write free access to NTFS disk drives in
>    GNU/Linux.
>
>    http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net - NTFS support in Linux
>    http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ldm.html - some information
>    about Windows Dynamic Disks

Unfortunately filesystems don't port from Linux that easily. While perhaps
useful for reference data, most of the code would have to be reimplemented
for our kernel API.

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