Leopard to have NTFS read-write?

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zachpruckowskizachpruckowski
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in macOS edited January 2014
Tiger is obviously limited to NTFS-reading only. But I just read a bit about ntfs-3g, and it looks promising. If Apple can finish it and polish it up, that'd be a nice add to Leopard.



It's GPL, so I don't know about a GPL driver in Leopard, and whether it'd force Apple to open more source than they want to...



Read about it here. Check under the "Project Updates" header (halfway down the main page).

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  • Reply 1 of 8
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    File systems aren't linked, so the GPL wouldn't pose a problem.
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    zachpruckowskizachpruckowski Posts: 805member
    Does anyone know which open source group Apple "borrows" their NTFS-read-only code from? Is it this same group?



    This has me pretty excited about Windows in Leopard possibilities also. If you can read and write to NTFS partitions from Leopard, that could enable more solutions.
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  • Reply 3 of 8
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    Their Panther-introduced NTFS code is licensed from FreeBSD.
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    zachpruckowskizachpruckowski Posts: 805member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ReactOS Forums

    the well-known fact (which you mentioned) that Anton has said that he has already mostly finished a full-featured kernel space driver which he will make available next summer for MacOS X and Linux simultaneously.



    That was written two weeks ago. If it's true, we will definitely see NTFS-write in 10.6 if not 10.5
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    blackbird_1.0blackbird_1.0 Posts: 724member
    I know Linux has had NTFS writing somewhat, but I read somewhere that it fully works on Linux now. Maybe OS X will get a port of it?
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    zachpruckowskizachpruckowski Posts: 805member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by blackbird_1.0

    I know Linux has had NTFS writing somewhat, but I read somewhere that it fully works on Linux now. Maybe OS X will get a port of it?



    1) It's called NTFS-3g.

    2) It doesn't support huge (greater than 100k files) filesystems without work, and something else doesn't work

    3) It's a user-mode driver, using the FUSE API.

    4) FUSE was recently ported to a BSD (forget which one)

    5) Apple is commissioning an NTFS-write kernel-mode driver to be done by this time next year.



    So the question is, does Apple drop it's own NTFS-write project for this in 10.5, use NTFS-3g now and switch to kernel-mode later, or wait for it's own driver?
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  • Reply 7 of 8
    blackbird_1.0blackbird_1.0 Posts: 724member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ZachPruckowski

    1) It's called NTFS-3g.

    2) It doesn't support huge (greater than 100k files) filesystems without work, and something else doesn't work

    3) It's a user-mode driver, using the FUSE API.

    4) FUSE was recently ported to a BSD (forget which one)

    5) Apple is commissioning an NTFS-write kernel-mode driver to be done by this time next year.



    So the question is, does Apple drop it's own NTFS-write project for this in 10.5, use NTFS-3g now and switch to kernel-mode later, or wait for it's own driver?



    Ah okay. Thanks for clarifying.
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  • Reply 8 of 8
    cesarcesar Posts: 102member
    let's hope for ZFS in 10.5
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