From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 26 21:31:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B979C106564A; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:31:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40DA78FC14; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:31:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (pD9FBE17E.dip.t-dialin.net [217.251.225.126]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q2QL6J3J070203; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:06:19 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q2QL67SL005621; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:06:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2QL5s4O006834; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:06:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201203262106.q2QL5s4O006834@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Efstratios Karatzas From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:13:08 +0300." Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:05:54 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, kib@freebsd.org, gleb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS GSoC Project Idea X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:31:55 -0000 Efstratios Karatzas wrote: > Greetings, > > I am a FreeBSD GSoC 2010 student, looking to participate in this years > GSoC. The project that I wish to work on is the FreeBSD NTFS driver. > > I 've already discussed my project idea with Attilio@ who suggested that I > forward my proposal to the hackers mailing list in order to get more > feedback and see if there's anyone interested in mentoring a NTFS project. > > The current draft of the technical part of my proposal(pdf & plain text) > can be found here: > > http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~std06101/ntfs/ntfs_proposal.tar Hi, I just downloaded, will read tomorrow. Skimming the beginning, I notice "3) bugbusting" There's a bug in ntfs-3g see my: http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/shrink/#bugs_ntfs3g "FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs" ... "Name of Files & directories starting with a '$' are not seen" Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/