Hi Peter,
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Peter Vogt wrote:
> NTFS-3g is working perfectly fine but I have this problem: I have
> Crossover 6.01 installed with MS-office2003 which is working fine but
> office-files located on a NTFS-drive mounted with NTFS-3g are reported
> as 'Read-Only' when opened in MS-Office using Crossover. I can not save
> changes to these files. This is not a permission problem since these
> files can be renamed or overwritten. I contacted Crossover, and go this
> reply (support ticket 123175):
> >>
> After talking with our head developer it seems the ntfs-3g driver does
> not support writtable mmaps. This feature is needed for our software to
> work properly. The best thing I can advise is to contact the developers
> of the driver and ask them what will be needed to add support for this.
> >>
Writable mmap is supported, the very rare shared writeable mmap isn't yet.
The issue is independent of ntfs-3g and is a pure kernel, FUSE kernel
driver one. When the support will be implemented in the Linux kernel then
any ntfs-3g driver will support shared writtable mmap without any change.
Regards,
Szaka
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