[ltp] Captive Linux GPL NTFS Driver

[Michael Stilkerich]

Hmm always thought that Microsoft did not release any specs of the NTFS
filesystem and thus the linux driver was based on reverse engineering..
I have to admit that I don't know anything about the access control
semantics of the NTFS Filesystem, I never used it..

But as I said I read about Captive in an article of a magazine and did
not read anything about problems when creating files or doing any of the
"normal" stuff..

Mike.

* Tod Harter <tharter@rhombus.net> [2004-03-06 21:00]:
> 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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