Captive NTFS

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Captive NTFS is an open-source project within the Linux programming community, started by Jan Kratochvil, to create a "software wrapper" around the original Microsoft Windows NTFS file system driver using parts of ReactOS code. By taking this approach captive NTFS aims to provide safe write support to NTFS partitions.

Captive NTFS requires NTFS.SYS which cannot be distributed for legal reasons. It can either be obtained from an installed Windows system (which most computers with NTFS partitions are likely to have) or extracted from certain Microsoft service packs.

On January 26, 2006 Jan Kratochvil released version 1.1.7 of his package. This version restores compatibility with recent Linux kernels by replacing the obsolete userland file system module LUFS with FUSE (File System in Userspace), which as of Linux 2.6.14 has been included into the official Linux kernel.

As of late 2006, Captive NTFS is no longer the only Free read/write NTFS solution for Linux. ntfs-3g is a FUSE based driver with almost complete NTFS write support which unlike Captive NTFS does not require any third party proprietary software to function.

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