[Libguestfs] Re: Windows port of daemon?

[Szabolcs Szakacsits]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 01/12/09 16:29, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:40:32PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 
> > > The reason to want a Windows appliance at all is twofold: (1) better
> > > support for NTFS filesystems and Windows-native filesystem features
> > > (attributes, volume management etc)
> > 
> > Could you please tell more technical details? We support NTFS attributes,
> > volume management, etc for years. Thanks.
> 
> For me, the principal driver is to use native software management tools,

Native on Linux or Windows? 

We don't reimplement Windows NTFS tools on Linux (actually we were some 
years ahead in some of them) but try to make NTFS features available via 
common Linux interfaces.

> particular for driver installation. Native filesystem and volume management is
> a bonus.
> 
> Out of curiosity, who's 'we'?

Linux-NTFS, NTFS-3G and Tuxera:
 http://linux-ntfs.org
 http://ntfs-3g.org
 http://tuxera.com

	Szaka