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Re: [PLUG] NTFS --> to ? Conversion
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Linux already supports NTFS (to some degree anyway) - and it is
distributed with the kernel. I agree that scratch-space would be
necessary. Maybe the conversion tool would copy the entire windows partion
data to a network share - reformats it as ext3 and then copies it back? If
it did so automatically and reliably, then it would be an In-Place
migration from the perspective of the user doing the migration.
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:21:14AM -0700, W. Chris Shank wrote:
>> I think it would appeal to any technical person who would like to see
>> an in In-Place migration from Windows-to-Linux be possible.
>
> While this is attractive for that reason, it's horrendously
> complicated.
>
> First, NTFS keeps files in a drastically different way than ext3 (or say
> that sentence the other way around, it really doesn't matter;
> neither is particularly "standard"). It's probably simply impossible to
> convert one to the other without using some amount of scratch
> space.
>
> Second, I don't know that NTFS is even *documented* unless you sign an
> NDA with MS. Which means no GPL'ing the software you produce.
> (Same's true for reverse-engineering, if you take EULAs as legal... and
> it doesn't really matter whether *you* think they should be
> legal, it matters whether MS will sue you. And if you start
> distributing something for in-place Windows->Linux conversion,
> they will.)
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
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