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On Friday 02 May 2008, Sandro Hannemann wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... |
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> CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y |
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> CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y |
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> |
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> No need to go FAT anymore... |
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Not quite. |
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It's not ntfs-ng, it's the same old ntfs write support that's been there |
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for ages, and it's *partial* write support. From fs/Kconfig line 836: |
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config NTFS_RW |
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bool "NTFS write support" |
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depends on NTFS_FS |
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help |
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This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS |
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driver. |
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The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, |
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without |
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changing the file length. No file or directory creation, |
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deletion or |
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renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be |
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written to |
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so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) |
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cannot |
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be written to. |
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While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we |
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have |
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so far not received a single report where the driver would |
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have |
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damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to |
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use. |
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Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite |
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from |
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scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old |
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NTFS |
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write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since |
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1997), |
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is not safe. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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