On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Malcolm V wrote: > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 07:40, Michael F. wrote: > > > Actually, that's changed. These days you can write to NTFS > > > under Linux using Microsoft's own Win32 driver. Check out: > > > > > http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive > > > > I seen this some weeks back, question is has anyone on slug tried it? > > I'd be curious to know how well it works. The site indicates very well > > :) > > The supplied source installs very easily (I'm not sure if NTFS read > support is required in your kernel for this or not, as captive searches > your drives for the required Windows files).
It can either get those files off your existing Windows partition, which it'd use the read only NTFS driver for, or use files supplied in a Windows XP service pack, which you don't need the NTFS driver for. > However, there seems to be a buffer overflow somewhere, not sure if > it is in my lufs implementation or captive itself. This cause "unusual" > behaviour upon file deletions (and from df). This was with a 10 gig > partition and a directory containing a little over a thousand files. It > is also reasonably memory and CPU intensive. Interesting - thanks for the info. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
