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From: Paul B. <bpk...@ma...> - 2002-11-16 17:13:07
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Hi! First fact: I can see that many Linux coders are wrestling with NTFS support problem. It seems to be very complicated thing. It seems that exact structure of NTFS is a secret of Microsoft and this structure needs to be hacked to make Linux driver. Even if many things are already known, the driver can only read NTFS, otherwise it will SPOIL the partition. The other fact: Developers from "Sysinternals" (Mark Russinovich and others) have developed Windows98-wrapper for standard Windows NT/2000 NTFS driver and there is no compatibility problem because this is NATIVE driver, not something invented by themselves. We should only install this wrapper and take some files from Windows 2000 distribution package - NTFS support is ready. Yes, it is not stable, but, I think, mainly because of Windows98 nature. SO, I HAVE VERY SIMPLE QUESTION: Why somebody needs to develop his own NTFS driver instead of making the wrapper for standard NTFS driver taken from Windows NT/2000 distribution package, just like "NTFS for Windows98" from Sysinternals? It will be: 1. Easier to do 2. Safer, because this is a standard driver from Microsoft which won't spoil everything. Yes, this module will be able to work only on x86 machines, but it isn't a big problem, because Windows NT (and NTFS) can mainly be found on x86 systems. |
