# NTFS Write Support GSoC - Week 2

DevFeed: [NTFS Write Support GSoC - Week 2](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ntfs-write-support-gsoc-week-2-32968.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/ntfs-write-support-gsoc-week-2/>)

Published: 2016-06-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [Filesystems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/filesystems.md>), [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [MSVC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/msvc.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [msvc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/msvc.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

A week-two progress report on ReactOS NTFS write support. The author resolved MSVC build problems, updated configure.cmd, and documented an existing limited capability to overwrite file contents without changing file size. Support for changing file sizes is still in progress, with file creation, renaming, and deletion planned as more difficult future work.

## Source excerpt

This week I spent a few days hammering out all the problems I was having with MSVC builds, understanding exactly what was causing them, and updating configure.cmd so nobody else would have them in the future. See my forum post for the details. I've also been doing a lot of reading this week, both on the peculiarities of NTFS, and on Windows file system drivers. File System Forensic Analysis by Brain Carrier has been an incredible resource for the former, and Windows Nt File System Internals by Rajeev Nagar has been indispensable for the latter.