Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:51:48 +0300 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> To: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, Jeff Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support Message-ID: <20080207145148.GL7592@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0802070636p1af7495fi8b7e6b07129843c3@mail.gmail.com> References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> <47AAFDED.9030301@freebsd.org> <47AB05A1.7010803@freebsd.org> <3bbf2fe10802070613mf2bf3feg5dcb480501fcfbbc@mail.gmail.com> <20080207141820.GR99258@elvis.mu.org> <3bbf2fe10802070621h574f5d3kb4fbd86adbab11c@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0802070636p1af7495fi8b7e6b07129843c3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:36:23PM +0000, Joao Barros wrote: > > I read (I think on ntfs-3g website) that one of the developers was > working for Apple specifically to fully support NTFS on OSX. If this > is to be true, Apple willing to give this code to FreeBSD, would make > it another interesting solution IMHO. But NTFS-3G is FUSE-based. OTOH, Mac OS X has a native read-only NTFS driver apparently inherited from FreeBSD. Unfortunately there isn't much for the two projects to share in this area: Just reading from NTFS is almost trivial, and the rest is system-specific VFS stuff. -- Yar
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