From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 3 08:22:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08926 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 08:22:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08912 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 08:22:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.156]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5B2C; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 17:21:55 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <368E804E.3B8FA4D9@uk.radan.com> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:29:06 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Mark Ovens Subject: Re: Accessing NTFS partitions Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Sue Blake Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02-Jan-99 Mark Ovens wrote: > Sue Blake wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 03:19:57PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >> > On 02-Jan-99 Mark Ovens wrote: >> > >> > Yeah, but both he and I never found any documentation regarding >> > writing to NTFS drives since MS is reluctant to hand out specs. > I'm sure I've seen a book (by Microsoft Press IIRC) that is all about > the NT filesystem. I'll see if I can track it down. Don't bother... It isn't technical information. What Semen needs is a description about $MFT and how to modify that... >> So what's stopping it from being pulled in to save all this hassle? >> It'd be another incentive for people who are considering moving from NT >> to some kind of unix to try FreeBSD. > Another good point. I think there is a lot of active development going > on though as the versions have moved form 0.6 to 0.9 in pretty rapid > succession ( the only reason that it's taken me this long to get round > to trying it is that all previous versions I d/l'd gunzip complained > were corrupt). Heh, he was a little overzealous whenever I reported back bugs... But I have to say, it was pretty stable from start... I dunno how stable it needs to be before one could submit it for a commit. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message