Will Leopard have NTFS support (write)?

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kedakeda
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in macOS edited January 2014
I had to help a friend w/a PC laptop, and I wanted to copy files on to an external HD from the PC. This should have been a very quick procedure, but it turned into a PITA. If I had been able to simply use the NTFS formated drive, things would have been easy.



I know MS is a major roadblock to NTFS compatibility, but will Leopard change this? Considering BootCamp & Parallels, it seems like an appropriate time. Or....are there business/IP issues involved?

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    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    There's a somewhat usable NTFS write support solution for Linux and FreeBSD now, but I doubt Apple will be able to port it in time. There are independent efforts to do it, so perhaps we'll see something pan out within the next year.
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    kukukuku Posts: 254member
    Mostly a problem with trying to reverse engineer something that a company(microsoft) don't want you to reverse engineer.



    Independent groups can get away with it, but apple macosx is using FreeBSD, which offers read only ntfs.



    It's unsafe in almost any any form besides windowsXP beyond OS, so it's very unlikely 10.5 will have it.



    The only real option is ntfsmount which may or may not mesh in mac enviorment and licencing.
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    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kuku


    The only real option is ntfsmount which may or may not mesh in mac enviorment and licencing.



    No licensing problem there; it's not like anything would link to the driver. Just a matter of whether Apple wants to risk angering Microsoft.
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    kukukuku Posts: 254member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chucker


    No licensing problem there; it's not like anything would link to the driver. Just a matter of whether Apple wants to risk angering Microsoft.



    No there is a certain amount of licencing problems. Even GPL etc in open source.



    The world doesn't work in the same way for a business as it does for a consumer. Look at various battles in the GPLv2 v3 headlines and you'll see.
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