NTFS write support

[Scott Long]

Max Khon wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:18:35AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I think ntfsprogs (in the ports tree) does everything in userland, and they
>>>claim to have stable write support. The homepage is here:
>>>   http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
>>>They also have some documentation there.
>>
>>They also have some docs. Not very readable but seems to have
>>quite a few details. Time to do some reading.
> 
> 
> My opinion is that from-scratch implementation is not possible within
> reasonable period of time. I'd suggest to try to port captive ntfs + fuse
> framework or (oh my! I did not tell you that) extend ndisulator so that it
> is possible to load ntfs.sys directly into the kernel.
> 
> /fjoe

Filesystems are one of those things that are very, very, very tightly
coupled with the virtual memory system.  They are basically the center
of the universe for Unix-like kernels.  Anyone who succeeds at making
a shim layer for NT filesystem modules likely has a very exciting career
ahead of them in turning lead to gold, developing perpetual motion 
machines, and solving world peace (yummmm.... whirled peas.....)

=-D

Scott