Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:16:04 +0000 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: [: Re: RAW NTFS Partition] |
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At 03:01 23/11/01, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >Can you help this person?
I will reply to him off line. Sounds to me he is in desperate need of a data recovery company not of diskedit... Using diskedit on his part can damage the volume even more and if it is a whole year worth of work paying a few thousand dollars to get the data recovered is peanuts... If he insists then I will help him of course but I think it's a bad idea.
>My 18 months has now expired. I can help on NTFS now if you need some help.
That's cool to know. I am developing a new NTFS driver - NTFS TNG. It is read-only for now and it is almost complete with regards to basic read support. I.e. it works NOW. - The only thing that is missing is attribute list attribute support but I am working on it as we speak. (-;
If you or anyone else of course is interested in participating in development, have a look. Code is in module ntfs-driver-tng in Sourceforge linux-ntfs CVS. URL with cvs access details:
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13956
Note that the module requires some small changes to the core kernel and the appropriate patch is maintained in ntfs-driver-tng/patches directory. Currently kernel 2.4.15-pre4 is supported but patch might apply to later -pres as well.
After applying the patch and installing the new NTFS module sources NTFS TNG is completely separate from the kernel tree (all code including headers is in fs/ntfs and nowhere else and the include/linux/fs.h dependencies are gone).
One word of warning: NTFS TNG requires gcc-2.96 or later to compile. It will NOT compile with earlier versions of gcc! You will just get a million or so errors if you try any earlier gcc compiler...
Best regards,
Anton
-- "I've not lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere." - Unknown -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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