[GLLUG] Documentation for NTFS

[Jason L. Froebe]

almost certainly.   when in doubt ask a lawyer that specializes in software
patents and copyright law
On Apr 26, 2013 9:08 AM, "M Goppold" <mgoppold5 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> You guys say I need maybe a license from Microsoft with its
> patents/copyright, or walk a fine legal line.  Sounds bad.
>
> 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?
>
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>  *From:* "omalley_s at rocketmail.com" <omalley_s at rocketmail.com>
> *To:* M Goppold <mgoppold5 at yahoo.com>; GLLUG <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 26, 2013 8:29 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [GLLUG] Documentation for NTFS
>
> Google ntfs internal structure.
> 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.
>
> Ntfs is licensed, so you have to walk a fine legal line.
>
> The bigger pita is the Uefi bootloader and how they store it on disk.. and
> maybe that is why you are asking...
>
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "M Goppold" <mgoppold5 at yahoo.com>
> To: "omalley_s at rocketmail.com" <omalley_s at rocketmail.com>, "GLLUG" <
> linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
> Subject: [GLLUG] Documentation for NTFS
> Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:41 pm
>
>
> Looked at samba docs.  No docs about NTFS internals there.  The root
> struct is documented well.  Nothing else.
>
> Thanks a lot (sarcasm), free software movement.  :)  I guess I'll just
> have to pay someone to do it.
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>  *From:* "omalley_s at rocketmail.com" <omalley_s at rocketmail.com>
> *To:* Mike <mgoppold5 at yahoo.com>; GLLUG <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 21, 2013 7:15 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [GLLUG] Documentation for NTFS
>
> 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..
>
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Mike" <mgoppold5 at yahoo.com>
> To: "GLLUG" <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
> Subject: [GLLUG] Documentation for NTFS
> Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 1:05 pm
>
>
> I cant find documentation, for NTFS on disk structures, and NTFS fault
> tolerant filesystem updates.
>
> I could find some documentations, but they were far from complete.
>
> NTFS-3G exists.  But that is pure source code.  The NTFS-3G
> documentation completely talks about using the driver, no internals.
>
> Anybody know more?
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