Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
As to comparing it...NTFS is a robust filesystem, but it's not usable
under Linux...well fully usable.
Yep, it's not fully usable but not really because of the widespread
beliefs.
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't fully implemented yet. This means
that the write code either isn't written yet, disabled or works fine.
The complexity of NTFS is comparable to XFS or Reiser4 what is worked on
about 8+ developers full time, paid. The Linux NTFS kernel driver
currently is developed by one guy voluntarily, in his spare time.
Also note that there are two completely different kernel drivers and the
write support was disabled long ago for the original, NT4 NTFS driver that
indeed corrupted a lot of Windows 2000 partitions because, among others,
the driver didn't check the NTFS version for backard compatibility.
I always thought that Microsoft had a copyright on NTFS, which is why
non-Windows OSes like Linux and Mac OS X can't have write access without
paying royalties if Microsoft accepts. I'm probably wrong, but that's
what I've heard.
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