Hi Eric, Interesting.
Where can I find more information about this feature, and how can I create such files on Windows 10 ? Glancing at your code, I do not see anything related to (sparse) cluster allocation. Does that mean these files are not seekable and must be read/written sequentially ? Regards Jean-Pierre Eric Biggers wrote: > Hello, > > I've made an experimental fork of ntfs-3g that supports reading the "System > Compressed" files that are / will be supported by Windows 10. This feature > allows rarely-modified files to be stored using XPRESS or LZX compression, > with > stronger compression than the LZNT1 compression built into NTFS. Windows 10 > will supposedly enable it on selected files automatically. > > Microsoft designed this feature to use a reparse point which redirects access > to > a named data stream, which avoided changing NTFS itself. The format of the > compressed stream is identical to that of a compressed resource stored in a > Windows Imaging (WIM) archive. > > I suspect it will be a while before NTFS-3g support would be useful to more > people and it ultimately may not be worthwhile adding it at all (especially > since this is a reparse-point based feature and therefore is not part of NTFS > itself, and it takes quite a bit of code to support), but I thought I'd post > this in case anyone else is interested. > > The source code is available as the "system_compression" branch of > https://github.com/ebiggers/ntfs-3g.git. > > Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
