Re: [MLUG] NTFS

[Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 9/3/05, Mark A. Haidekker <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Saturday 03 September 2005 11:06, Mike Miller wrote:
> > Whats the current status of NTFS in Linux?  Do they have solid and
> > trustworthy NTFS read/write functionality yet?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> 
> Read access is stable (I can confirm that). However, they warn you that write
> access is experimental. You need to enable it to have any ntfs partition
> mounted r/w. I have used write access without problems. This is not a big
> deal for me, because I don't have any significant data on windows partitions.
> YMMV - so if this is mission critical, I'd probably create a NTFS text
> partition and play with it first.
> 
> Mark
> 

There was also a project to ue the NTFS driver from Windows to access
the NTFS partitions. This is similar to how Wine, ndiswrapper, and
Mplayer with binary codecs work.  Of course, it only works on x86 and
it is kinda slow.  But it should be reliable.

Regards,
Mark
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