Re: file systems

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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> The default installation does not support it.  The drivers for the NTFS
> have problems.  Use them at your own risk.  From everything I have read,
> writing to a NTFS WILL cause corruption.

Mikkel,
 Having done some experimentation with mounting NTFS r/w in Linux, I've
decided that the problem is not in the Linux drivers. The problem seems to
be (I am NOT an NT programmer) that the NT journalling facility, quite
reasonably, sees the changes made by Linux as filesystem corruption. The
changes were made while that function was absent, therefore not
journalled.
 From the Linux side, writes to an NTFS filesystem are persistent and
stable. Even from the NT side, if you can convince the OS that the fs is
OK, there is no problem.
 However, Linux writes (and reads) on NTFS are deathly slow. Unreasonably
and unconscionably slow. I much prefer to build a FAT32 shared partition
for storing "mutual" data.

See ya later,
 Doc