From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264337AbUE3UnO (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 16:43:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264358AbUE3UnO (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 16:43:14 -0400 Received: from bezsensu.pl ([62.121.111.178]:43667 "EHLO laptok.bezsensu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264337AbUE3UnM (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 16:43:12 -0400 From: Pawel Kot To: Martin Olsson Subject: Re: Why is proper NTFS-driver difficult? Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:33:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net References: <40BA1FD5.9080902@minimum.se> In-Reply-To: <40BA1FD5.9080902@minimum.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405302233.55108.pkot@bezsensu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 30 May 2004 19:54, Martin Olsson wrote: Hi Martin, > 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 it is not easy. NTFS has very sophisticated structure, not documented anywhere but already reverse engineered and partially documented at linux-ntfs project page (http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/). As I said this is not easy task and as such it is time consuming. All linux-ntfs developers are volunteers and not paid for this work. It means that all code is written in the free time. Much time was also spent on helping users (this will change now, see the manifest on the project page). To summarize, the write support will appear sooner or later, if you volunteer to help, you are very welcome. I'm ccing ntfs-dev list which is a better place to discuss such topics. take care, pkot -- mailto:pkot@bezsensu.pl http://www.gnokii.org/