On Friday 02 May 2008, Sandro Hannemann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable...
>
> CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y
> CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y
>
> No need to go FAT anymore...

Not quite.

It's not ntfs-ng, it's the same old ntfs write support that's been there
for ages, and it's *partial* write support. From fs/Kconfig line 836:


config NTFS_RW
    bool "NTFS write support"
    depends on NTFS_FS
    help
      This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS
driver.

      The only supported operation is overwriting existing files,
without
      changing the file length. No file or directory creation,
deletion or
      renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be
written to
      so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so)
cannot
      be written to.

      While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we
have
      so far not received a single report where the driver would
have
      damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to
use.

      Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite
from
      scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old
NTFS
      write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since
1997),
      is not safe.




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