On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:45:09PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Oleg Goldshmidt, from the post of Wed, 26 Feb: > > Actually, is there ANY way I can access WinXP partition from Linux (on > > a dual-boot machine)? > > yes, install it on fat32 or be satisfied with read-only. the Linux > driver for NTFS is very problematic and unstable. to truely write to an > NTFS system you need to do a lot of trickery to make the NT kernel later > think you did it "the legal way" via the journal (which the linux kernel > doesn't), which involves running an FS fixer app after every major > update to the NTFS, etc. big headache.
> in addition, there's a bug in theNTFS writing code that sometimes > crashes the linux kernel, and looks like nobody is working on a fix. Curisou.. the NTFS maintainer seems very active. Did you try mailin him? Are you using 2.4 or 2.5? > finally, the XP's FS uses compression in ways the linux driver may not > be compatible with yet. You forgot to mention the most important thing, the reason why: AFAIK, the NTFS "on disk" format is undocumented and what is known about it has been revesed engineered. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org
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