Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:29:06 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Subject: Re: Accessing NTFS partitions Message-ID: <XFMail.990103172906.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <368E804E.3B8FA4D9@uk.radan.com>
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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 <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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