Messages in this thread | | | From | Lee Leahu <> | Subject | Re: Current status of NTFS support | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:07:20 -0500 |
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On Friday 20 April 2001 20:39, you wrote: > Lee Leahu <lee@ricis.com> writes: > > would somebody be kind enough to explain why writing to > > the ntfs file system is extremely dangerous, and what are the > > developers doing to make writing to ntfs filesystem safe? > > It's dangerous because NTFS is a proprietary format, and the full > rules for updating it (including journals etc) are known only to > Microsoft and those that have signed Microsoft NDAs. If you update it > incorrectly it gets corrupted and you will lose data. It's certainly > possible to reverse-engineer these rules, but very difficult and > time-consuming. > > -Doug
my boss rememebres reading a very indepth article in one of the msdn magazines. i could scan the articles in and compress them and send them to the developers. i want to help the ntfs movement on linux. would somebody be willing to teach me the ropes of reverse engineering of software. i am a faster learner, and very interested in reverse engineering of software.
i have access to the msdn library and maganzies and have lot of free time for dedicated ntfs code hacking.
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