The NTFS file system is proprietary technology of Microsoft. Is the NTFS for Linux driver absolutely legal?
It is well known that originally NTFS was very close to the HPFS file system developed by IBM. HPFS was much more OPEN in terms of documentation support, data structure and so on. It helped us to gain a better understanding of its nature, architecture and ideology. The knowledge about NTFS we also have got has already been used for years inside our best-seller product – Paragon Partition Manager. We have sold several million copies of Paragon Partition Manager all over the world. The stability of the products as far as NTFS related operations are concerned says for itself about the stability of the NTFS technology at all. Thus, having a pretty good idea about what the HPFS file system is, we may understand the way NTFS functions. Applying to the other sources of information like Linux drivers for NTFS (read only drivers) and debugging Windows applications, we’ve documented NTFS structures from within and finally created the Universal File System Driver. While developing Paragon NTFS fo
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