[Linux-cachefs] Re: ext4 and NTFS support?

[Szabolcs Szakacsits]

Rince <rincebrain <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Using NTFS as a backing store isn't reasonable at present because ntfs-3g
> doesn't do permission handling in any sane fashion, 

The Advanced NTFS-3G  driver has full file ownership and permission support.
Actually we are maintaining the free POSIX file system test suite and make 
sure the drive keep passing all the 3600+ tests, including lots of related
ones: http://ntfs-3g.org/pjd-fstest.html

> much less xattrs, 

The Advanced NTFS-3G driver support all xattr namespaces. The basic driver
currently supports only the "user" namespace since version 2009.2.1. 

Regards, Szaka

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