Steve Dodd wrote:
> > (Fixing NTFS for 2.4.0)
>
> 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.
Steve, if you manage to begin compiling that bug lists, perhaps you should
contact Jeff Merkey:
On 2000-03-02 16:20:21, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> wrote:
>
> (OT)BTW - the NTFS driver (write) in Linux has data corruption on W2K.
> I have reviewed the code, and the on-disk structures are WRONG in
> several places, and several of the internal attribute records are making
> incorrect assumptions about some of the record fields. What's there
> will cause severe data-corruption if you are switching between the two
> platforms with a single partition image, particularly with the later W2K
> NTFS implementation (though NT 4.0 seemed to be OK -- some problems with
> the journal). The NTFS driver we tested was using the earlier FS
> implementation (n/2), not the newer W2K formats. The first time W2K
> mounts an NTFS volume with 4.0 format, it will auto-convert the NTFS
> volume to the W2K Volume Manager formats under Windows 2000, including
> any stripe sets, and potentially make incorrect decisions about
> attribute assignment if a journal is present and the volume has been
> booted under NT 4.0 after Linux has written to it.
>
> Thought you might like to know. We contracturally cannot help fix the
> NTFS driver in Linux, but we can point out potential problems and
> explain them to the best of our understanding.
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