Re: Low-bandwith ADSL, or something? (mostly off-topic)

Tony Houghton <this.address.is.fake@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>In <87irzpi7m0.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>Nix <nix-razor-pit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> On Tue, 05 Jul 2005, Greg Hennessy spake:
>>> Commercial tools such as partmagic are developed using the MS DDK and would
>>> have full documented access to the FS internals and data structures, one
>>> would have thought.
>>
>> Indeed. MS refuse to license it for the purpose of implementing NTFS drivers
>> for other operating systems.

>That explains it then. But someone could write a utility that happens to
>have an extractable NTFS driver module, then someone "else" could
>interface that to the Linux kernel...

The problem is that the disk is such a crucial part that installing yet
another layer would slow things down. Also, MS does not publish the entry
points either, so translating all of the disk commands to Linux is also
"fun".

.

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