NTFS Support Getting Anywhere
On Sunday 18 September 2005 04:33, Adam McCarthy stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:
You could check theChangelogfor kernel 2.6.14-rc1 at the link below and run a search through the document for the word "NTFS" to see the names and e-mail addresses of the NTFS support developers...:
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You will also see that a lot of work has been done in respect to NTFS support in this first release candidate - as well as in other areas; theChangelogcontains nearly 39'000 lines of text!
Many Linux distros are available via free download. Unfortunately, HatRed (Red Hat) as we knew it is no longer available...
However, from what I know of NTFS support, so far the distributions disable write support for NTFS in the kernel, and if you rebuild your kernel with write support for NTFS, then the only things you can do on an NTFS filesystem are: - reading a file; and - writing to a file without that the filesize grows, i.e. mildly editing its contents.
Work is in progress but you do know that NTFS is a proprietary and thus closed-source filesystem, and I don't think Microsoft is going to reach out to the FOSS community there. ;-)
Not to be disrespectful, but I think that Microsoft will release the source code to NTFS just a few weeks after Pope Benedict XVI will have
-- With kind regards,
*Aragorn* (Registered Gnu-Linux user #223157)
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