NTFS write support

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Feb 12 23:25:20 PST 2006


In message: <43EFF3E2.90001 at samsco.org>
            Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> writes:
: Sergey Babkin wrote:
: > Hi,
: > 
: > I've finally got Win XP as the second OS on my mahcine. The next
: > thing I've found is that NTFS support still seems to be read-only,
: > and it does not look like anybody is actively working on it.
: > So adding the NTFS write support looks like an interesting
: > project to undertake.
: > 
: > Just in case, if anybody working on it already, please let me know.
: > Any kinds of ready pointers to the good docs would be welcome.
: > Or to the existing implementations too (Linux?).
: > 
: > -SB
: 
: I'm pretty sure that Microsoft makes the technical details available
: for NTFS, either from their website or from one of their DDKs.  The
: hardest part is probably in dealing with their journal.

There's at least one book on the structure of ntfs.  I used to have a
copy, but I can't find it anymore...  But the book wasn't enough to do
an implementation...

Warner


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