Re: Current status of NTFS support

[Tom Leete <tleete@mountain.net>]

Lee Leahu wrote:
> 
> On Friday 20 April 2001 20:39, you wrote:
> > Lee Leahu <lee@ricis.com> writes:
> > > would somebody be kind enough to explain why writing to
> > > the ntfs file system is extremely dangerous,  and what are the
> > > developers doing to make writing to ntfs filesystem safe?
> >
> > It's dangerous because NTFS is a proprietary format, and the full
> > rules for updating it (including journals etc) are known only to
> > Microsoft and those that have signed Microsoft NDAs.  If you update it
> > incorrectly it gets corrupted and you will lose data.  It's certainly
> > possible to reverse-engineer these rules, but very difficult and
> > time-consuming.
> >
> > -Doug
> 
> my boss rememebres reading a very indepth article in one of the msdn
> magazines.  i could scan the articles in and compress them and send them to
> the developers. i want to help the ntfs movement on linux.  would somebody be
> willing to teach me the ropes of reverse engineering of software.  i am a
> faster learner, and very interested in reverse engineering of software.

Copyright interferes with that route, and I'm sure Microsoft would be happy
to
enforce that. Links to the msdn.microsoft.com library/kb articles would be
good.

> i have access to the msdn library and maganzies and have lot of free time for
> dedicated ntfs code hacking.

Also good.

Cheers,
Tom
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