On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 00:04 -0500, Miark wrote: > 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
That's news to me. I was still treating the driver like it was read-only. Looks like it's time to get a little bit more fancy. :) LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!" -- Turkish proverb Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
