Re: Why is proper NTFS-driver difficult?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Sunday 30 May 2004 21:37, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 19:54, Martin Olsson wrote:
> > I was wondering why is there no Linux NTFS-driver which allows full
> > writing etc? Is there something that makes this particular difficult to
> > implement? I mean Linux supports so many file systems, why has proper
> > NTFS support been neglected?
>
> Maybe because our favorite monopolistic company wants to keep its
> internals well hidden to the public? The reason they are doing this is
> completely unknown to me.

AFAIK Linux NTFS-fs team said it knows enough to implement it.
It's a question of time and motivation now.
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vda

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