On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 12:22, robert K. wrote:
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as WinNT and WinXP also uses. At the time of writing there was still a problem known as the SEH-Problem which prevents ReactOS from using these drivers. But when the SEH-Problem is solved some time, ROS will be able to load even native NTFS-drivers.
Not really true; we need to do lots of work still. It's on my plate, or anyone else is welcome to it.
Q: Can I help programming installable file system drivers? A: Yes, there's lots of work to do around IFS-drivers. It's however very hard to program. I like to say that programming dirvers is hard but programming file system dirvers is the king's discipline. If you are a real kernel hacker, come to our maling list and anounce yourself.
I am also happy to point you in the right direction. There is much to be done, as I said.
Q: Can we use ext2/3 instead of poking around in NTFS A: Yes, it's up to you, which file system you want to use. For now however neither the ext2/3-IFS nor the our NTFS-IFS is ready to use for read and write. So there's still lots of work to do (especialy the SEH-Problem) and so the only option is the FAT-IFS.
Just to be precise: what SEH problem are you referring to?
Q: Why do you not make use of the Linux-NTFS project's sources? A: These sources are rather ok, but as all NFTS implementations (but the one from MS) it lacks writing support. And there are still big areas wich are undocumented. We are working together with them or just using their code. In the moment ther's however not that priority for NTFS.
I don't think this is true any more; last I heard, there was an NTFS implementation for Linux that could write. Regardless, the big problems here will revolve around 100% bug-compatibility with the MS code.
-Vizzini