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From: Lee Leahu <lee@ricis.com>
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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.

-- 
lee@ricis.com,
Open Source + Linux = Freedom
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