On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 09:26:35AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > I have no idea why Microsoft chose to make the w2k version of
> > NTFS incompatible with earlier (and other) implementations,
> > but it appears this choice is costing some of their users
> > their data...
>
> Linux NTFS corrupts NT 4 partitions too. The best would be to
> comment out this dangerous write option.
It is. It is well-hidden behind CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL and clearly
marked as being DANGEROUS...
--- tristate 'NTFS filesystem support (read only)' CONFIG_NTFS_FS if [ "$CONFIG_NTFS_FS" != "n" -a "$CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL" = "y" ]; then bool ' NTFS read-write support (DANGEROUS)' CONFIG_NTFS_RW fi ---Of course there are always people who chose to ignore such warnings and try it on a non-test filesystem. Luckily for them there exists a thing called "backup" ... just restore the data and they're ready for the next EXPERIMENTAL thing they come across ;)
cheers,
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