At 19:12 13/03/00, Todd Sabin wrote:
>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?
Read-only works fine for me, too and I have limited write functionality
(copying files on top of each other works fine, deleting files doesn't work
leaving "broken file-like structures" for a future "chkdsk /f" under NT to
sort out). - read-only works perfectly though - I have lots of things on my
NTFS partition including my freshly downloaded rpms, tar balls, etc and I
read them from linux without any problems so I don't see why NTFS
(read-only at least) needs to be removed. - Maybe mark it as unsupported +
experimental + whatever else in the configure scripts but please keep it
in, there are people (including me) who rely on it working since NT is a
long way away from reading ext2 partitions... (if someone wants to prove me
wrong, please do so).
And no I can't maintain the ntfs driver myself since my linux kernel
hacking experience is almost equal to zero atm and I also don't know
anthing about ntfs workings either...
Anton
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