On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 00:04 -0500, Miark wrote: > 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
Miark, looks like it gets even better. Look at the following on http://www.linux-ntfs.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ 3) On 07/14/2006, project member Szabolcs Szakacsits presented a new version of ntfsmount and libntfs, given the project title ntfs-3g. This version has full read/write capabilities, many bug fixes and improved performance. It has already been downloaded over 66,000 times, tested and regularly used by users with satisfaction over the last three months. Despite of that it is still a strong beta, and will upon (in some way or the other) merge also into the linux-ntfs ntfsprogs package. The beta version of the ntfs-3g driver can be downloaded from http://www.ntfs-3g.org Going to the last link above, you see this: "The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, with the exception of full file ownership and access right support. The purpose of the project is to develop, continuously quality test and support a trustable, feature rich and high performance solution for hardware platforms and operating systems whose users need to reliably interoperate with NTFS. Besides this practical goal, the project also aims to explore the limits of a hybrid, kernel/user space file system driver approach. Performance, reliability and feature richness per invested effort are being examined. The driver currently is in BETA status, which means that no data corruption or loss has been reported during ordinary driver use, nor found in our extensive quality testing before release of the latest version, however we are aware of certain usability issues and driver limitations which are all documented and planned to be resolved in the future. It may be revealing about the high reliability of the NTFS-3G driver that an increasing number of users find hidden hardware faults, and several Microsoft released NTFS bugs during NTFS-3G testing and usage." LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Registered Linux Mangler #002 °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
