epoch1970;450068 Wrote: > Since you have a backup drive, would you consider formatting sdb to a > linux native filesystem (use ext3 preferably) instead of using a > half-baked userland driver, as needed to access NTFS on linux ? > You wouldn't be using HFS (the Mac FS) or EXT2 on Windows, right ? --If > you'd do, you'd get into trouble sooner or later. Epoch: although I bow to your superior knowledge in many areas, I think you're unnecessarily maligning the ntfs-3g driver here. It's very robust. In several years of use on more than a just handful of machines, I've never once had a NTFS drive messed up by this driver on a linux box. I think that the worst thing one might say about ntfs-3g is that it's a little slower than ext2. I'm guessing, but I'd think that, at most, it might tack on an extra 10% to audio library scan times. Never once have I observed that driver slowness interfered with file access for audio playback...and this has been on some pretty under-powered hardware: Atom machines, VIA machines, etc.
Let's let him get going with ntfs-3g and cross the bridge to switching to ext2 if and when ntfs-3g becomes a problem. I know that lots of linux folks think having any vestige of Microsoft on their boxes is inherently icky. To my mind, ntfs-3g is robust enough that insistence on ext2 in a case like this potentially boarders on file system chauvinism. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66800 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
