On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:05:55 +0100 (MET), Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 that HPFS could > be a variant of ODS2. >
I always thought so too but since NT4 has some roots in VAX I wouldn't be surprised. <snip> > > > 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. > 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 so that you use the microsoft librairy via wine to access their filesystem. Here's some links that are interesting : http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/wlg/6261 Enjoy ! Jean-Francois > Szaka > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
