Am 26.10.2012 16:34, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Am 26.10.2012 16:28, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi: >>> If you don't use sparse files (does NTFS even support them?), then the >>> limited write capability of the kernel NTFS driver may be sufficient. It >>> can write to existing files without changing their sizes as often as you >>> want to. However, operations like file size changes, file creations and >>> file deletions may result in "Operation not supported" seemingly >>> randomly. (At least that was the state of the driver when ntfs-3g came >>> out, I suppose they didn't remove any features since then.) >>> >> Yes NTFS support sparse files. >> >> I need to create a files and directories inside. >> However an experimental user can create needed COW files manually of >> desired size and use them, who knows if works OK... > > Alternatively: I just looked, and ntfs-3g + fuse + fuse kernel module is > still under 2MB - compressed with xz-squashfs, this could be less than > 1MB. Although the use case is rare, adding it is unproblematic.
Disregard that, in our complicated scheme, running a file system as a user space process only yells for trouble.
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