gharris999;450163 Wrote: 
> Epoch: ... you're unnecessarily maligning the ntfs-3g driver here.  It's
> very robust.  In several years of use on more than a dozen different
> machines, I've never once had a NTFS drive messed up by this driver on a
> linux box. ...
First I don't want to derail the thread, so I'll be quick. I confess a
poor choice of words.
2 weeks ago I was helping a new mac user scavenge 5 years worth of
digital pictures from her NTFS formatted drive. She had written to it
with the mac port of ntfs-3g, and, shazam! drive empty after reboot. A
rare problem, it seems. But, there it was.
In general I only gained problems not using the native, mainstream,
filesystem on an OS. Any OS.
With filesystems, a "problem" usually means files lost forever, or a
lot of stress and time spent repairing. 
It ain't funny, so whenever possible, I try minimizing the chances, and
using the same system as everybody else. I go mainstream when choosing
my FS. 
NTFS on linux is not the middle of the road. Well ok, it's a 6-lane
highway :) 

Anyways, Bruce S. has a backup, and this is commendable indeed,
regardless of the FS.


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