[ros-dev] Security policy for FAT partition driver?

[Mark Junker]

Boaz Harrosh schrieb:

> 1. NTFS is already fully supported in ReactOS! By Microsoft. As shown 
> by the Captive project. (You did merge back the Captive project Cache 
> manager and file system stuff right?) If ReactOS is to support WinNT 
> device drivers than that means, File-System device drivers as well. 
> Native Knoppix has Captive by default and you can ask my friends of 
> how happy they are for the stuff I saved them from a Bad and crushed 
> XP HD.
> OK so it is not Implemented yet, but it is 85% and it could be if 
> someone wants to merge Captive subsystems.

But this would require that every ReactOS user that wants to use NTFS 
also has to buy a Windows license. This solution is therefore absolutely 
useless for us. (I don't know if it is allowed to use this "standard" 
windows components with operating systems other than Windows)

> 2. I have not been to Wineconf-2005, but from the summery what I could 
> see is that one of the key notes was the Samba team. Now ReactOS is 
> going to use Samba right? Or are you going to do your own 
> Windows-for-Workgroups Implementation? Well Samba4 has all these 
> things missing from ext2/ext3, implemented on top, has an extra layer. 
> They call it VNTFS. By use of Samba you will get that for free. Wine 
> is going to use samba to replicate all the needed Win32 API(s).

This might be a usable way ... but it's always quite dangerous to 
emulate file system features. I remember all those problems with OS/2's 
EADATA stuff on FAT drives ...

> Now in order for ReactOS to use Samba it will need it's POSIX layer 
> pretty polished up.

This has nothing to do with the posix subsystem.

> In summery what I think should be is: A new installation, out of the 
> box, installs ext3 with the Samba VNTFS layers and every thing is 
> happy and free. A user that wants to dual boot or Replace but not 
> loose his/her Windows NTFS HD, will be prompt for the Windows system 
> directory, the NTFS drivers, which are legally his (Hence the 
> existence of the NTFS partition), are copied and happily used by 
> ReactOS. ReactOS does not Create new NTFS partitions but other wise 
> supports them to the letter, by running MS drivers and utilities. It 
> must do that to be true to its goal, as stated on the front page: Run 
> any Windows application and any Windows-NT device driver. Including 
> those from MS, as legally owned by the user. For any other free use of 
> ReactOS the native FS is ext2/3 with Samba VNTFS extensions.

That's much too complicated. Simply use ReiserFS 4 because it implements 
all (!) features that are provided by NTFS.

Regards,
Mark