On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:02:47 +0100 (MET) Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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. I have standard Debian linux-images, i guess it's the open source 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 > Will check it out, thanks Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
