On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:53:13PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> ak@suse.de said:
> > Linux NTFS corrupts NT 4 partitions too. The best would be to comment
> > out this dangerous write option.
>
> Currently it depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL and is marked with a very
> shouty "DANGEROUS"
>
> That should be enough to warn off all but the most clueless individuals, who
> are likely to fuck up their system in other innovative and stupid ways even
> if we coddle them though this one.
I disagree. There were various reports of such damages. If you use the
write option you should probably know a lot of about what you're doing
(like how to repair broken NTFS file systems). Those clueful individuals
can comment in the Config.in option.
-Andi (who is worried about Linux's reputation on this one)
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