From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264392AbUE3U46 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 16:56:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264385AbUE3Uzm (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 16:55:42 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:34768 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264384AbUE3UzQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 16:55:16 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Giuseppe Bilotta Subject: Re: Why is proper NTFS-driver difficult? Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 22:54:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <40BA1FD5.9080902@minimum.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-113-140.29-151.libero.it X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Martin Olsson wrote: > Hello, > > > 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? > > Is there any file system I can use which satisfies these criteria: > A) works in both Linux and Windows > B) handle >4GB files > C) handle 120GB partitions ext2/3 There are (open source) ext2/3 drivers for Windows. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta Can't you see It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollar and cents Pounds shillings and pence (Roger Waters)