ntfs kernel module

Robin Holt holt at sgi.com
Wed Oct 27 10:04:49 UTC 2004


On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:32:28PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> ISTR the fat patent was thrown out a couple of months back, as 
> everyone expected it to be.  rdp and samba? No knowledge other than 
> its been a cat and mouse game with M$ trying to maintain 
> compatibility for samba.
> 

That was their long filename support in msdos filesystems.  The patent
was important to Linux/M$ because most hotplug devices are using
a vfat style filesystem.  Sorry, nothing about NTFS.

Robin Holt




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