[RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support
Yar Tikhiy
yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Thu Feb 7 06:51:54 PST 2008
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:36:23PM +0000, Joao Barros wrote:
>
> I read (I think on ntfs-3g website) that one of the developers was
> working for Apple specifically to fully support NTFS on OSX. If this
> is to be true, Apple willing to give this code to FreeBSD, would make
> it another interesting solution IMHO.
But NTFS-3G is FUSE-based. OTOH, Mac OS X has a native read-only
NTFS driver apparently inherited from FreeBSD. Unfortunately there
isn't much for the two projects to share in this area: Just reading
from NTFS is almost trivial, and the rest is system-specific VFS
stuff.
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Yar
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