On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Is NTFS support safe to use for writing?
It depends on what NTFS implementation you use. There are almost a dozen different one which people greatly confuse and they often credit one's faults to an unrelated one. If you use the one from the open source Linux NTFS project (but not the original NT4 NTFS driver which were experimental, developed by others and kept trashing NTFS) then yes it was always safer than ext3, xfs or reiserfs, mainly because until very recently it implemented only file overwrite without change to the file size and volume resizing so basically nobody would have much chance to corrupt anything even if they had tried very hard. > Are all functions implemented? Only read, not all writer. And probably some bugs will appear too as more write related features will be implemented. Just like in case of any other filesystems or softwares. > If no time to answer could you just please direct me where to look for > this information. I know this is constant development, but i would be > very interested in trying it out. http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ Szaka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]