[openbeos] Re: Making BeOS accessible to Windows
- From: "Travis Geiselbrecht" <geist@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 00:08:16 -0800
As the author of the read-only NTFS driver in beos I can safely tell you
you don't want to try that unless you want a huge project. NTFS is a
largely undocumented, extremely complicated filesystem. It was hard
enough getting it to reliably work in read-only mode. Totally different
story for read-write. It's very extensible, so Microsoft is always
adding extensions to it, so you have to keep figuring out what they're
doing.
There's a reason that no other operating system has a reliable ntfs
driver, it's too hard to play catch-up and figure out why the latest
service pack broke your driver.
Travis
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> [mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Lee
> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 9:13 PM
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> Subject: [openbeos] Re: Making BeOS accessible to Windows
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>
> How hard would it be to make a BeOS NTFS driver that used
> NTFS attributes[1], and the NTFS indexing stuff?
>
> Then just put anything you have to share between the two on
> an NTFS drive.
>
> mike
>
> [1] I am assuming that NTFS supports free-form attributes.
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