Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-18 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote: > There is another myth that you can't have reliable write support in > linux well at least if you're willing to compromise (not really native > kernel support ...). There is a way to use the native ntfs.sys driver > in linux There are ev

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-18 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Colin wrote: > Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > >There are some myths about Linux NTFS support (like it's experimental, > >corrupts data, etc) even if they aren't true for about 3-4 years. The fact > >is read is fully usable and write isn&#

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-17 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Bob Sanders wrote: > NTFS is a variation of VAX/VMS' original filesystem. Internally at > DEC it was known as ODS2 (On Disk Structure 2). This is quite interesting but are you sure? It's fairly well known that NTFS was derived from HPFS. Of course this doesn't exclude th

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting NTFS Raid 0 Partitions

2005-02-17 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Could anyone offer some help? I have built in all the support required > in the kernel. ie: Sata, Raid and NTFS support. > > mount -t NTFS /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfsdrv > doesnt seem to work :( Quite probably you need LDM support: http://linux-ntfs.s