On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:39:29 -0800 (PST), CJ wrote: > Very nice. Can you do massive writes reliably, like copying the > contents [say 100,000 files/dirs] of a 100 Gig partition?
I don't know as I've never tried anything that extensive. I usually do 10 or 20 files at a time that are no more than a few MB large. Even though I trust it, I wouldn't do any 100 GB transfers without a backup. > Is there any documentation on this, showing what can and can't > be done? Or any fairly rigorous testing? I'm VERY interested > in a linux that is bullet-proof with ntfs writes - > particularly one that can be run from CD/DVD. Documentation is here: http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ and here are a couple of quotes from the site: "Ntfsmount has almost full feature write support. It can resize, create and delete files and directories and even operate on symlinks, devices, FIFOs and sockets. Though ntfsmount has still some restrictions, data safety should not be in risk, especially if you make regular backups with ntfsclone." "That doesn't mean it always succeeds, it is still experimental and might just as well refuse to complete an operation in order to prevent corruption. See the ntfsmount page for more details." "How safe is the NTFS Driver? We aren’t aware of any reliability problem either in the NTFS kernel driver, or in ntfsmount. But we do have lots of positive feedbacks." Miark ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
