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El Vie, 20 de Marzo de 2009, 16:26, Paul Hartman escribió: |
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> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Tom <uebershark@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> In recent kernels there is also direct writable support (stable, not |
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>>> experimental support) for NTFS without having to use NTFS-3G/FUSE. |
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>> Really?? |
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>> Just how recent do you mean? |
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>> Is it reliable? Are there any constraints left, such has 'only |
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>> overwriting files the same size' and such show-stoppers? |
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>> To make my question really clear: IS IT READY FOR DAILY USE?? |
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>> If so, I love you, and want your babys Ben, for letting me know... ;) |
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>> Tom |
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> If you mount using the userspace tools, yes it is ready for daily use |
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> :) The kernel driver still has limitations like, IIRC, being unable to |
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> create/rename/delete directories, and some other basic things like that. |
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> Using the FUSE tools from the classical NTFS driver you can do those |
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> things and the rest, but I think NTFS-3G is generally considered better. |
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> Most of the big distros use NTFS-3G as their default NTFS |
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> driver (as do I <g>) |
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> For more NTFS info than you ever wanted, check out www.linux-ntfs.org |
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> for the classic kernel driver and www.ntfs-3g.org for the newer driver. |
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Paul, if you need to know about the current status I advice |
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you to start with the text on the help section of the relevant |
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item in menuconfig, and with any related file under the |
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documentation directory in your kernel source tree. In the |
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help section for ntfs write support we can read this: |
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CONFIG_NTFS_RW: |
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This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. |
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The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without |
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changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or |
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renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to |
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so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot |
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be written to. |
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Which in my language mean that it's not ready at all. Besides that |
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I don't think it has a so great user base, that means that there |
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might be other problems that have been completely unnoticed. In |
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short, I wouldn't use that driver with write support at all, that |
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is, if you value your data. |
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Jesús Guerrero |
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