Re: NTFS status for 2.4.x (was Re: Linux Jobs: Update)

From: Todd Sabin (tas@webspan.net)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 14:12:49 EST


Steve Dodd <steved@loth.demon.co.uk> writes:

> [Cc'd to linux-ntfs as this issue has just come up there too]
>
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 07:32:01PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > > Mark NTFS as obsolete
>
> > > What's supposed to replace it? The laptop I use at work has NT4 95 and
> > > debian 2.2 on it. What reads nt drives now?
>
> > 2.0 or 2.2 kernels providing your NT < Win2000 I believe. If you want 2.3.x
> > to do NT then someone needs to maintain the code.
>
> I'm afraid I'm not going to volunteer because I don't have enough free time to
> commit to doing it reliably. However, if people want to remind of all the
> outstanding NTFS issues they know of, I'll collect them and stick them on the
> web somewhere .. I may even get around to fixing some of them, but no promises.
>

Well, I just built 2.3.51 and tried the ntfs driver. It appears to
work fine, at least for read-only. This was just a sanity test, so
there may be nasties lurking about, but are there known problems?

Todd

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