[ros-kernel] Re: ReactOS GPL vs. proprietary drivers - NTFS Driver under Linux + WINE

Martin Fuchs martin-fuchs at gmx.net
Tue Oct 21 10:00:15 CEST 2003


Hello,

> > As GPLed Linux-NTFS still has no NTFS r/w capability I completed the
> > project
> > for reliable r/w access in Wine way by using MS-Windows ntfs.sys
> > driver.
> > 
> > Captive-NTFS
> > 	http://www.jankratochvil.net/

If he can do this with ReactOS code on Linux, can't we do it in a similary way - just incorporate MS's NTFS driver to access NTFS drives?

It may be difficult to boot from an NTFS partition, but mounting any other drive read/write should be possible. Did some one already try this?

Martin



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