>Is anyone working on this? Or is the the structure so proprietary
>that Microsoft doesn't want to release it to the general public? (Or
>is it just so ugly no one wants to work on it?)

Actually, NTFS is a very well written, robust filesystem.

There is a book from Microsoft Press that tells all about how NTFS
works.  But I don't know that it goes far enough to tell you how to
write an NTFS driver.

Doesn't Linux have an NTFS someone has been working on for awhile?

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