From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264288AbUE3RzZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 13:55:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264301AbUE3RzZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 13:55:25 -0400 Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com ([195.54.107.70]:56008 "EHLO mxfep01.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264288AbUE3RzV (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 13:55:21 -0400 Message-ID: <40BA1FD5.9080902@minimum.se> Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 19:54:29 +0200 From: Martin Olsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Why is proper NTFS-driver difficult? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I was wondering why is there no Linux NTFS-driver which allows full writing etc? Is there something that makes this particular difficult to implement? I mean Linux supports so many file systems, why has proper NTFS support been neglected? Is there any file system I can use which satisfies these criteria: A) works in both Linux and Windows B) handle >4GB files C) handle 120GB partitions Sincerly, /m