FemmeFatale wrote: >Martin Ignacio Lange wrote: > >>Brian, >>Why is it unsafe to write in NTSF from linux?. >>The thing is that even putting rw in the command line of mount, I >>cannot write in the disk. How would be the line with the "user" >>statement. >> > > >AFAIK It amounts to NTFS turning the files you write into garbage due to >some proprietary way M$ handles their FS. :( > >Basically don't do it. Fat32 is fine. NTFS will give you fits when you >reboot into it. I know this first hand, I Lost over 12gb worth of >information that i was going to back up that week due to linux & windows >not playing nice. > >*sigh* >
NTFS is a secret and proprietary filesystem. Programs that deal with it have entered into an agreement with Microsoft agreeing not to disclose the technical information (or the nature of the agreement), except for those that are reverse-engineered without assistance from Microsoft. AFAIK, Microsoft has not even made available the possibility of an NDA to a linux company, and it is likely that no free-software-oriented company would sign such an agreement, though not all linux distributions are so oriented. And if a singular linux company did offer compatibility with NTFS though a closed-source driver down there talking to the kernel, who would trust it? Ah well, people add NVidia drivers and winmodem drivers without a second thought.... Maybe people would accept it even though they shouldn't. Furthermore, the NTFS "standard" seems to be changing with no backward compatibility. NT4 had one filesystem which we can read and experimentally write (not 100% certain of the reverse engineering). NT5 (aka Win2K) sported something different in terms of filesystem, and NT5.1 (aka WinXP) had yet another version. Civileme >
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