NTFS

Welcome to the NTFS-OS2 home page ! (Last updated on 22.06.99)

What is NTFS-OS2 ? NTFS-OS2 was supposed to be a package that would allow OS/2 to seamlessly access Windows NT NTFS formatted partitions from OS/2 as if they were standard OS/2 drive letters. The ultimate aim of this package was to be able to use the NTFS file system as a replacement of FAT or HPFS.

NTFS-OS2 is composed of several parts :

	In the future: a 32 bits OS/2 file system driver that allows read-write access to Windows NT NTFS file systems. an early R/O support for NTFS is now included in VFAT-IFS v0.05
	Several tools to access a NTFS filesystem in readonly mode.

What will be the main features of the file system driver ? The file system driver, ntfs-os2.ifs, is the heart of NTFS-OS2, as it is the component that manages seamless access to Windows NT file systems. This driver has the following characteristics :

	it is a full 32 bits ring 0 implementation,
	it supports read access,
	it has a global pseudo-dynamic disk cache, only limited by physical memory available,
	it takes advantage of the underlying I/O subsystem by using its asynchronous I/O interface.

What is the latest version of NTFS-OS2 ? The latest available version of NTFS-OS2 is 0.03, it was released on November 3rd., 1997 in a package file named ntfs_003.zip (313780 bytes) which does not contain a NTFS IFS.

Where to find NTFS-OS2 ? NTFS-OS2 can be found at least on the following sites :

	ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/filesys/
	ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/diskutil/
	ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/drivers/ifs/

Some links to ntfs related pages

	EXT2-OS2 home page
	VFAT-OS2 home page
	Linux NTFS home home page
	Georgatos Photis's Filesystems access HOWTO. It contains overview which operating system can access which filesystem.

Feedback and support Please feel free to contact support for any question on ntfs-os2. You are also encouraged to give me some feedback on how it works on your system and what new features you would like ... this helps me improve it ! Both success stories and disasters interest me.

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