Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:47:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:46:53 -0500 Received: from orange.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.77]:10966 "EHLO orange.csi.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:46:36 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011123024021.06fe3ec0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 02:46:47 +0000 To: "Jeff V. Merkey" From: Anton Altaparmakov Subject: Re: [vojkan@global.net.mt: Re: RAW NTFS Partition] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20011122203850.A2557@vger.timpanogas.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011123020459.0707dcd0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> <20011122200146.A2427@vger.timpanogas.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20011123020459.0707dcd0@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At 03:38 23/11/01, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >I will downlaod and review where the code is at. Write support is >going to be very tough at this point -- they have changed some of >the on-disk strucutures again for the journal and several meta >files. I am not bothered about the journal until there is fully working support for NTFS on Linux. After that I will start thinking about journalling. I haven't noticed any changes between Win2k and WinXP except for the extension of the MFT_RECORD structure (see ntfs-driver-tng:linux/fs/ntfs/layout.h) to contain the mft record number (great data recovery info). Although it is confusing that they are only using 32 bits there as otherwise the mft record numbers are 48-bit. Not quite sure what to make of that... >However, with the DOJ settlement, they will be required to share this >information, so our job could get easier. I will approach some folks and >see where they are at. Hopefully, it won't go down the way it did last time. From what I have read I doubt the DOJ settlement will be any benefit to NTFS development on Linux but it's certainly worth a try. Best regards, Anton >On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 02:16:04AM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > 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 (replace at with @) > > Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ > > ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- "I've not lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere." - Unknown -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/