From the WinBeta subforum of reboot.pro:
I'm Pierre Schweitzer, one of the ReactOS developers. This is a free operating system that aims to re-implement Windows, but this time with an open source license.
ReactOS now supports reading files from NTFS volume. This was a long awaited feature people were asking for. And here it is.
You can see what I'm talking about on the three pictures [included in the fine article].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 06 2014, @09:25PM
I'm no expert
Hmmm.
NTFS support on any non-Microsoft OS is partial, not full
Linux has had stable read and write support for NTFS since early 2007. [google.com]
What do you perceive as missing?
...besides, y'know, proper file permissions--which MICROS~1 has never had.
dangerous to rely on for important data
...same as when using NTFS under a MICROS~1 OS--because NTFS is MICROS~1's homebrew technology.
There are no surprises in your statement.
...and, if M$ would document their 4th-rate protocols fully, it would be duck soup to reimplement them.
...but that would break M$'s business model of obfuscation.
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Regarding the AC above: [soylentnews.org]
ReactOS [...] relies on wine
ReactOS did do a major rewrite back in early 2010. [google.com]
At that time, there was a serious cross-pollination between the 2 projects.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Friday November 07 2014, @02:06PM
Linux has had stable read and write support for NTFS since early 2007.
What do you perceive as missing?
I've had issues with corrupted NTFS volumes after extensive read/write sessions under GNU/Linux (specifically Slackware with NTFS-3G and FUSE) for several years now. These days, I'll only write to an NTFS volume over a network share; I don't dare mount the volume natively in GNU/Linux. Maybe it's just Slackware; maybe it's just my hardware. But I've learned my lesson the hard way.
The rest of your reply is blatantly biased against Microsoft (MICROS~1? Really? Grow up!) but I stand by what I wrote about the ReactOS team wanting to reverse-engineer NTFS instead of relying on NTFS-3G/FUSE, as I got it directly from their website. You can claim otherwise if you want, but you'd be calling them liars, not me.
(Score: 2) by monster on Friday November 07 2014, @05:44PM
Some of the most egregious fuckups in the filesystem would land you in "Run chkdsk from Windows on this volume" (aka "I won't touch this shit even with a ten feet pole") territory.