On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:28:31 Linda Walsh wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
ntfs-3g has been supported since 10.3. It provides full ntfs read/write.
Greg
---- How stable and how fast is it?
I've been using it on two dual-booting laptops and one ex-XP desktop machine since the release of 10.3 and have not lost any data yet. Subjectively it does not appear any faster or slower than accessing ext3 partitions (but I've not done hard measurements to confirm this).
How well does it handle the esoteric NTFS stuff not in Linux -- like the access lists and such?
I don't know about this - it's not something I've been concerned about.
Is this one of the drivers that runs MS-NTFS drivers in a compatibility mode?
Not that I am aware of. It does not require the MS drivers to be present to work.
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I know there are plenty of file systems on linux -- but virtually none of them are ported to Win32, and I can't see NTFS becoming a defacto-industry standard as long as MS sits on it as proprietary.
There is a stable ext3 installable file system (IFS) driver which allows you to mount ext3 partitions natively on XP. I have that on my laptop as well to provide two-way data access (i.e. access Linux partitions from XP with ext3.ifs and XP data from Linux with ntfs-3tg). It also provides write access and appears to be safe; I've mainly used it for read access to the Linux partitions but on the occasions that I've had to write from XP to Linux it hasn't caused any problem. YMMV. Regards, -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== "Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. "An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked MY advice, I'd have said `Leave off at seven' -- but it's too late now." "I never ask advice about growing," Alice said indignantly. "Too proud?" the other enquired. Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. "I mean," she said, "that one can't help growing older." "ONE can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty; "but TWO can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven." -- Lewis Carroll