Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:25:47 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, babkin@users.sourceforge.net, Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net>, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: NTFS write support Message-ID: <43F1319B.5020302@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060213165659.GB49659@samodelkin.net> References: <28062617.1139843915176.JavaMail.root@vms070.mailsrvcs.net> <20060213165659.GB49659@samodelkin.net>
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Max Khon wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:18:35AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > >>>I think ntfsprogs (in the ports tree) does everything in userland, and they >>>claim to have stable write support. The homepage is here: >>> http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ >>>They also have some documentation there. >> >>They also have some docs. Not very readable but seems to have >>quite a few details. Time to do some reading. > > > My opinion is that from-scratch implementation is not possible within > reasonable period of time. I'd suggest to try to port captive ntfs + fuse > framework or (oh my! I did not tell you that) extend ndisulator so that it > is possible to load ntfs.sys directly into the kernel. > > /fjoe Filesystems are one of those things that are very, very, very tightly coupled with the virtual memory system. They are basically the center of the universe for Unix-like kernels. Anyone who succeeds at making a shim layer for NT filesystem modules likely has a very exciting career ahead of them in turning lead to gold, developing perpetual motion machines, and solving world peace (yummmm.... whirled peas.....) =-D Scott
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