On Monday, January 1, 2007, 9:04:11 PM, Miark wrote: M> 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? M> I don't know as I've never tried anything that extensive. I usually M> do 10 or 20 files at a time that are no more than a few MB large. M> Even though I trust it, I wouldn't do any 100 GB transfers without M> a backup. Oops - I'm thinking of using it for backup/restore. :-( >> 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. M> Documentation is here: http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ A very informative site - thanks. Describes the rather fail-safe operation, which is nice. Says it does successful file creates about 50% of the time, but may have a limit of creating about 10 files in a directory. This looks like a big problem for large backup/restores though. :-(( -- rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
