Re: Why is proper NTFS-driver difficult?

From: Dax Kelson
Date: Mon May 31 2004 - 00:23:15 EST


On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 19:54 +0200, Martin Olsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I was wondering why is there no Linux NTFS-driver which allows full
> writing etc? Is there something that makes this particular difficult to
> implement? I mean Linux supports so many file systems, why has proper
> NTFS support been neglected?
>
> Is there any file system I can use which satisfies these criteria:
> A) works in both Linux and Windows
> B) handle >4GB files
> C) handle 120GB partitions

UDF meets A & B. I don't if it meets C.

Dax

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