Re: [ros-dev] NTFS in ReactOS: heise online article

[Pierre Schweitzer]

On 07/11/2014 19:52, Sven Barth wrote:
>   On 07.11.2014 13:19, Pierre Schweitzer wrote:
> >   On 07/11/2014 12:05, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > > >   Dear
> > > > Thomas, 
> > > >   This source of such article is a post from
> > > > reboot.pro
> > > >  (http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-reactos-livecd/)
> > > >  where I report this progress and ask for help. 
> > > >   On ReactOS website, you don't have such
> > > > strong report, but the piece of
> > > >  information exists, spread in various places. People started talking
> > > >  about it on boards a few days ago. You have a short report about it in
> > > >  the latest ReactOS developer meeting minutes
> > > >  (https://www.reactos.org/node/909). And finally, the commits made on
> > > >  NTFS where kind of explicit about the progresses (coming along with
> > > >  pictures:
> > > >
> > > > https://git.reactos.org/?p=reactos.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commi…)it&s=[NTFS]).
> > > >  
> > > >   Note that the 0.3.17 release has initial, but not
> > > > full (release process
> > > >  was started before everything could be developed) NTFS support. Testing
> > > >  from trunk is then the preferred method. 
> > > >   Cheers, 
> > > >   Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>
> > >  Thanks for the link!
> > >
> > >  I can see why, in a developing OS or application, following trunk
> > >  would be the indicated method.
> > >
> > >  Problem is I have no hard-drive space (actually I do, but it's
> > >  GPT-partitioned). 
> >  We indeed so far don't support GPT disks. It would require some changes
> >  to be done in our storage stack.
> >  This is somehow on my todo list, but it's kind of huge ;-). 
>  
>  Out of curiosity: why is it so extensive to implement? From my
>  understanding (I'm currently working with partition tables at work) GPT
>  should be simpler to handle than MBR. Or is this because it needs to be
>  implemented in a Windows compatible way? If so what did they change
>  there to make implementing GPT such a "problem"? 
Actually, you've to make all the storage stack GPT aware. Which is
doable ofc, but not immediate.

Kernel though, is already GPT aware.

>   
>  Regards,
>  Sven
>  
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Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org>
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.