zipspeak status

[Gregory Nowak]

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Yes, the ntfsrw support in stock linux kernels is limited, but you
might want to look at captive-ntfs, for which I forget the web page
for the moment. It does provide full r/w ntfs support, which will still only
leave the lack of umsdos, or a replacement for it actually.

Greg


On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:36:23PM -0400, Joshua Lambert wrote:
> "Can you make it nt compatible while you're at it?" <snip>
> Unfortunately, no.  Zipspeak runs on top of vfat partitions using the
> umsdos filesystem.  And Linux only has limited write support for nt
> partitions currently.
> Also, it will still use the 2.4 kernel as the umsdos filesystem it depends
> on has been removed from the kernel as of 2.6.8x I think.  No one has
> fixed it in 2.6, so it has been suspended indefinitely.  And yes, zipspeak
> is open-source.
> Cheers,
> Josh
> 
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