NTFS GSoC Project Idea

[Efstratios Karatzas]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:

> Efstratios Karatzas wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am a FreeBSD GSoC 2010 student, looking to participate in this years
> > GSoC. The project that I wish to work on is the FreeBSD NTFS driver.
> >
> > I 've already discussed my project idea with Attilio@ who suggested
> that I
> > forward my proposal to the hackers mailing list in order to get more
> > feedback and see if there's anyone interested in mentoring a NTFS
> project.
> >
> > The current draft of the technical part of my proposal(pdf & plain text)
> > can be found here:
> >
> > http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~std06101/ntfs/ntfs_proposal.tar
>
> Hi, I just downloaded, will read tomorrow.  Skimming the beginning, I
> notice
>        "3) bugbusting"
>
> There's a bug in ntfs-3g see my:
>        http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/shrink/#bugs_ntfs3g
>        "FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs" ...
>        "Name of Files & directories starting with a '$' are not seen"
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
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This project proposal is about the FreeBSD in-kernel NTFS driver, not the
one that runs with fuse, sorry!

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Efstratios "GPF" Karatzas