<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>You guys say I need maybe a license from Microsoft with its patents/copyright, or walk a fine legal line. Sounds bad.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>But NTFS-3G is already reverse engineered like you say, so the work to make NTFS free is done, no? If I base stuff off of NTFS-3G, do I have to worry about legal stuff anymore?<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "omalley_s@rocketmail.com" <omalley_s@rocketmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> M Goppold <mgoppold5@yahoo.com>; GLLUG <linux-user@egr.msu.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, April 26, 2013 8:29 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [GLLUG] Documentation for NTFS<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6917439692"><div>Google ntfs internal structure. <br>If you are looking to write a driver or disk recovery tool, then you probably have to Google each component specifically. I don't think msdn goes further then the public facing classes, but I could be wrong. <br><br>Ntfs is licensed, so you have to walk a fine legal line. <br><br>The bigger pita is the Uefi bootloader and how they store it on disk.. and maybe that is why you are asking...<br><br><br><div id="yiv6917439692htc_header" style="">----- Reply message -----<br>From: "M Goppold" <mgoppold5@yahoo.com><br>To: "omalley_s@rocketmail.com" <omalley_s@rocketmail.com>, "GLLUG" <linux-user@egr.msu.edu><br>Subject: [GLLUG] Documentation for NTFS<br>Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:41 pm<br><br></div><br><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><span>Looked at samba docs. No docs about NTFS internals there. The root struct is documented well. Nothing else.<br></span></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot (sarcasm), free software movement. :) I guess I'll just have to pay someone to do it.</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "omalley_s@rocketmail.com" <omalley_s@rocketmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Mike <mgoppold5@yahoo.com>; GLLUG <linux-user@egr.msu.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, April 21, 2013 7:15 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [GLLUG] Documentation for NTFS<br> </font> </div> <div class="yiv6917439692y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6917439692">I think samba has ntfs internals but I was also thinking it was in the kernel as a fs driver. The last time I looked the 3g stuff was not documented much at all.. <br><br><br>----- Reply message -----<br>From: "Mike" <mgoppold5@yahoo.com><br>To: "GLLUG" <linux-user@egr.msu.edu><br>Subject: [GLLUG] Documentation for NTFS<br>Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 1:05 pm<br><br><br>I cant find documentation, for NTFS on disk structures, and NTFS fault <br>tolerant filesystem updates.<br><br>I could find some documentations, but they were far from complete.<br><br>NTFS-3G exists. But that is pure source code. The NTFS-3G <br>documentation completely talks about using the driver, no internals.<br><br>Anybody know more?<br>_______________________________________________<br>linux-user mailing list<br>linux-user@egr.msu.edu<br>http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user<br></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>