That doesn't surprise me - NTFS 5 was supposedly actually written by Veritas anyway. Besides buying Backup Exec from Seagate Software, they are known for their Unix file systems.
Then there's always NTFS4DOS - nifty utility that originally could only read but there's a commercial version now that can write, NTFS partitions from DOS. I used it back when I had my old computer set up for dual boot - NT4 for getting work done and DOS/Win3.11 for games.

>>Here, check this out: http://arstechnica.com/paedia/n/ntfs/ntfs4-1.html
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>I found this one, which I thought might interest you - ntfs reverse engineered.
>http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ntfs/index.html
>JLK
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>>>Randy,
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>>>I'm just curious as to how you classify NTFS as a "transactional database"?
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>>>I see neither transactional nor database in NTFS or any other file system.
>>>
>>>regards