On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote:
..
> 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.
Actually NTFS write is USABLE enough with the following caveats:
1) after unmounting the NTFS volume, you must run 'ntfsfix' on it
2) when you boot to Win2k, the Win2k fsck will HAVE to be run, it will do
some repairs that make the NTFS volume 'pristine'
I'm not very optimistic about a generic journaling facility in Linux. SGI
XFS is *trying* to do that, but I tried their impossible-to-compile kernel
and gave up in disgust -- I see why Linus &c don't like the SGI changes,
they're very wide-ranging.
ReiserFS manages to not break everything, but it's a not-very-good
journaling layer (remember the problems with LVM and software RAID.. at
least XFS works over LVM).
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Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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