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[Shayne O'Neill]

Theres also captive drivers, which I'm told works exceedingly well.

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On Fri, 28 May 2004, Bernard Blackham wrote:

> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:51:49AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > Mark Saxon wrote:
> > > Has  any one used or know of an alternative? It would need to be able
> > > write to NTFS.
> >
> > That rules out using Linux, then.
>
> Well, somewhat. Depends what you want to do with NTFS :) From 2.6.6:
>
> config NTFS_RW
>     bool "NTFS write support"
>       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.
>
>
> Bernard.
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