Kallis Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 This is EXCITING!! http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.p...p;forum_id=2697 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-...ntfs.devel/2597 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 As part of the Linux-NTFS project, I'm happy to announce my contribution to ntfsmount and libntfs which resulted ntfs-3g, a read-write ntfs driver, capable for unlimited file creation and deletion. Now this is worth reading about. Thanks for the heads up.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TsubakiSama Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 Hope it can be ported to OSX too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ampTK Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 That's great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bond Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 That's definetly good to hear...full NTFS access has been a long time coming, and it would definetly be a good thing not to have to rely on a Fat32 partition to transfer files between OS's any longer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romey-rome Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 I wonder if NTFS changes in Vista will throw this project off? For a little while anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Bond Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 I don't believe there's been any major changes to Vista NTFS, so I'd say we're safe for now. Microsoft scrapped WinFS anyways, so that leads me to believe they wont bother tinkering with anything else filesystem related for the time being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenVa Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 Microsoft scrapping winfs... who would have seen that one coming... Its great that a NTFS read write support driver is now open source... it is only a matter of time that the meathods used in this driver will be ported to everysystem you have ever heard of... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 You'll be happy to know that it works on both XP and Vista primary and logical partitions. Now to get the external drive full RW access. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 I hope it makes it into Leopard in time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 the hell with making it to Leopard. I want it in Tiger NOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRP Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 NTFS-3g is nice and all, and Mac support even more so. But I would like to point out that mostly-functional NTFS write support has been in Linux through FUSE and the ntfsprogs that are in practically every distro. 3g just makes it better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staphyl Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Darn you guys got me all fired up. I was and still am pushing the ntfs.kext cracking or w/e so that we can read and write to NTFS. Well, when u guys port this, i will be one happy camper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hostile Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I used this in linux, Works Great!! I've been using it for a while now, and haven't had any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix3200 Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 well...cracking the ntfs.kext file will do you absolutely no good. Apple has the source code available online, and as far as write support goes, there is so close to none that Apple effectively commented it out of the release that made it to OS X. It was also incredibly stable, and for any user, had no major functionality - it pretty much enabled someone to rename a file, or change a file's contents in place - aka you couldn't even change the filesize. Now we just need someone who understands FUSE, Linux Programming, and Macintosh programming well enough to make a port to OS X. I'd volunteer, except I'd rather not install Linux on my computer. It's bad enough as is that I've installed a Unix-based OS . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 The good thing for Mac is, it's not left alone. Just keep an eye on http://forum.linux-ntfs.org the next few months. Btw, linux-ntfs.org has taken over the ntfs-3g project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 21, 2006 Share Posted July 21, 2006 We just got done testing out a modded pmount binary for ntfs-3g. The goal for the mod is to automount external USB drives and gain full read-write support. My tests went very well. I'm looking forward to testing out the fully automount features soon. I hope the dude working on this pulls through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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