[ltp] R40 - problems with double boot

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Atwood, Robert C wrote:

> I have not tried extensive 'experimental' writing to ntfs systems, so I
> cannot comment on how seriously to take the warning .. but it was enough
> to put me off trying. 

There isn't much warning, really. There are two totally different NTFS
source bases (actually there are much more, long story) and people confuse
them.

The old NTFS driver isn't developed for about 4-5 years and write was
disabled around 2-3 years ago.

The rewritten driver, by another developer, is safe however only file
overwrite is implemented in kernel space so far. The user space tools,
ntfsprogs (resize, clone, undelete, etc) can do more, they use the 
same source code as the kernel driver and they are also safe to use for
over a year or two. 

The Windows bootability problems, what people report, don't have anything
to do with NTFS support on Linux. None of the Linux NTFS code modify or
even read the partition table. And the bad partition table manipulation 
is the source of the recent Windows boot problems caused by several Linux
distros using 2.6 kernels:

	https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7959#c21

    Szaka