Re: Why is proper NTFS-driver difficult?

From: Bernd Petrovitsch
Date: Sun May 30 2004 - 15:18:40 EST


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?

Because there is no official documentation which will cover future
versions of NTFS (which may come with the next patch^Whotfix - let alone
service pack).

Bernd
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