On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
>
> If is true that Linux can write on NTFS, but the developers will
> recommend that you do not do this. They do not have the specs of NTFS
> from Microsoft, and unless they get that they will not want to
> officially support writing on NTFS on the basis of educated guesses.
> Will Microsoft give out the specs? That is anybody's guess.
>
IIRC, someone (I think it was Orly) mentioned on the list a few months
back that one of the big reasons why NTFS write support was complicated on
Linux is because NTFS is a journalling file system, and the kernel does
not yet have a generic journalling facility.
And by the way, the kernel developers *do* support a lot of things on
the basis educated guesses, although of course nothing as critical as a
file system where data integrity is at stake.
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