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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].
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NTFS Now Supported in ReactOS LiveCD
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Thursday November 06 2014, @02:47PM
Last I checked, you could reliably:
- read files
- overwrite files up to the size of the file you were overwriting
NTFS uses proprietary magic when allocating space to either create a new file or expand an existing file. There are at least experimental implementations of full NTFS read/write support, but Microsoft isn't exactly forthcoming when it comes to documenting it.
I would imagine that what ReactOS is doing is cross-fertilizing with Wine as well, since Wine has also largely implemented the Windows API, but running on top of a Linux platform. My guess is that ReactOS, if successful, would be a bigger threat to Windows than Linux/Wine, because a lot of businesses would be able to transition to it and get off of the Microsoft upgrade treadmill without really having to change anything they're doing. I have no idea how close they are to achieving that, though.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by fnj on Thursday November 06 2014, @03:22PM
Sounds like FUD. NTFS-3G has had full read-write support for years. Files of ANY size can be created, modified, renamed, moved, or deleted. Hard links and symbolic links are supported.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday November 06 2014, @04:15PM
Oh, right, I was thinking kernel support rather than a userspace tool, and the last time I built the kernel it still had those kinds of warnings about it.
I don't play close attention to these kinds of things, since I barely use Windows.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by fnj on Thursday November 06 2014, @06:53PM
Understood. The kernel NTFS support is nothing more than a joke. But NTFS-3G using FUSE is not a kind of stunt of questionable value like ZFS-FUSE is. NTFS-3G is a fully performant first class file system.
If you want a read-write FS to share between linux-BSD-OSX-Windows (i.e., removable media) - even any two of those really, NTFS is pretty much the only choice except for the abomination of FAT.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Thursday November 06 2014, @07:05PM
FAT is a great file system for 360kB floppy disks. Which is what it was designed for. It wasn't designed for disks of several hundred gigabytes.
Calling it an abomination does not do justice to the file system.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Thursday November 06 2014, @03:22PM
Well, they've been working on it since 2004 (and even that was based on a previous abandoned project apparently) and they're still in alpha, so it'll be awhile.
Plus, I can only assume Microsoft will sue the living bejeezus out of them the instant it looks like they're actually going to publish a usable product. (What's that, APIs aren't patentable? Here, let me find a different judge who disagrees.)
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 06 2014, @04:20PM
Like say the Chinese Gov or similar...