On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 11:03:37PM -0500, Gary wrote:
> > > On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Linux can access more than 80 different types of file systems, including
> > any NT without problems.
>
> Does that include W2K NTFS, which is different from W NT 4 NTFS? for
> example, does it correctly handle sparse files and reparse points?
Microsoft has said that NT4 is able to mount NTFS5 filesystems, but is not
able to recognize or use any of the new features. I'm willing to bet the
same goes for Linux, too.
My one experience: I recently had to rescue a Windows 2000 NTFS
volume. The user wanted to move away from Win2000, and at the time,
was the only one who had it installed. We were able to retrieve files
off it in two ways: NTFS for DOS, made by System Internals -
http://www.sysinternals.com - was able to read the volume, as were NTFS
drivers for FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. I did try to mount it under Linux,
without success, but I was also using 2.3.99, which may have been the
problem. Try it with a stable kernel; you'll likely have better results.
Again, I'd not use the writeable drivers on any volume I cared about.
-Matt Stegman
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