On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Michael Tharp wrote:
NTFS is pretty stable these days. You cannot create new files or resize
existing ones, so "write support" translates to "write over existing files",
but it's safe for the most part.
I looked into this a couple of months ago and decided that
writing a file of exactly the same number of bytes as the
original was pretty limiting. Presumably I'd have to do a
size check each time to make sure I wasn't going to hose the
NTFS filesystem.
Joe
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