On 9/6/07, Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 07:11:47 -0700
> "J.C. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Jona Joachim wrote:
> > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:17:44 +0200
> > >
> > > "Martin SchrC6der" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > 2007/9/3, The One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > > FAT32.
> > > >
> > > > And everyone can be compiled to read NTFS; Linux can even write to
> > > > it.
> > >
> > > FreeBSD can also write NTFS using the ntfs-3g driver together with
> > > fusefs.
> > >
> > >
> > > Jona
> >
> > Actually, this is tenative at best. Though some have had success both
> > reading from and writing to various NTFS versions, it's not really a
> > safe thing to do. It's still an undocumented file system, and many
> > typical operations fail disastrously. This week I wasted two
> > different XP installations by attempting to resize the NTFS partition
> > (shrink) with two different open source tools (PartitionLogic and
> > GParted).
>
> I never really used it, I think I just tested it once.
> On their site they say: "The driver is in STABLE status since February
> 2007, after twelve years of development" so I thought it was ok.
> I had some terrible crashes with sshfs on FreeBSD. I think the FreeBSD
> fuse kernel module is a bit flaky. I never tried it on Linux.
How stable a driver is doesn't indicate the actual level of success
writing {safely,properly,sanely} to a problematic filesystem.like
NTFS. It may successfully corrupt data without crashing or throwing
errors at all.
DS
