At 2004-08-27T19:14:12+1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:02, Roger Searle wrote:
> > one of those ntfs drives and am aware of not being able to reliably write
> > to ntfs.
> http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
> which purports to be able to access NTFS reliably in both read and
> write modes. It is an interface between Linux and the native Windows
> .dll libraries, which do the actual work of accessing the NTFS.
Dynamically linked library libraries? ;-) Captive-NTFS is largely using
the ntfs.sys driver, which isn't a DLL, but you're on the right track.
> I have never used it, and cannot comment further about it.
It works. It's fairly slow and uses a significant amount of CPU time,
but that's the price you have to pay, right now, to get relatively safe
read-write support for NTFS in Linux.
Cheers,
-mjg
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