[ltp] Captive Linux GPL NTFS Driver

[Tod Harter]

Remember, the reason why historically Linux NTFS drivers haven't supported 
writing has nothing much to do with either stability or any technical 
difficulty in implementing the necessary routines.

The reason is simply that access control semantics for NTFS are utterly 
foreign to Unix access control semantics, so there is no really good 
meaningful way to map NTFS metadata acceptably. This isn't TOO big a deal 
when you're reading data from the file system, at worst you just ignore 
access control, but as soon as you want to start CREATING files and 
directories, then you have a problem... 

On Saturday 06 March 2004 2:35 pm, Michael Stilkerich wrote:
> As I said above, I read about captive in either Linux Magazine or c't
> and they tested it and said it's really stable.
>
> The Homepage says
> As opposed to other projects this is currently the only software
> supporting the full read/write access including the possibility to
> create/delete files, modify directories etc.
>
> I would give it a try if I were you..
>
> Mike.
>
> * Joel Ebel <jbebel@ncsu.edu> [2004-03-06 20:28]:
> > If you care about windows at all, then you you should use NTFS for it.
> > FAT32 cripples windows, and makes the filesystem very inefficient and
> > insecure.  While there are methods of getting write support to NTFS from
> > within linux, I still do not trust them.  I don't want a bug to destroy
> > my windows partition.  Read only works ok, so I will frequently copy
> > copy files from NTFS to linux from within linux, but not the other way
> > around.  I do as many people here have already said, and have an
> > intermediate FAT32 partition called scratch where I can put files that
> > need to go from linux to windows.  I used to be use explore2fs
> > (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm) to read linux
> > files from within windows, but I now use reiserfs in Linux, and I have
> > not known of any such comparable tool.  So for me, I must use the
> > scratch partition for any OS to OS transfer besides windows to linux
> > from within linux.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > Vincent Touquet wrote:
> > >For the people who use a Windows version and Linux
> > >on their Thinpad: do you go with NTFS for Windows,
> > >or do you stick with FAT32 ?
> > >
> > >best regards,
> > >
> > >v
> >
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Tod Harter
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