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On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 18:39 +0000, David Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 Jan 2006 12:21, Kelly Jones wrote:
> > Is it still not advisable to write to an ntfs volume?
>
> As far as I'm aware it is now considered reasonably safe. There used to be a
> warning in the kernel config strongly discouraging use of it, but that was
> taken out a while ago. That said, you may want to back-up before attempting
> it for the first time in case there's some bug in the kernel (SUSE patch it a
> lot and so could have added something which breaks NTFS write support).
>
FYI - the 2.6.15 kernel supports NTFS writing:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13165
As such I assume (!) it is now considered safe enough to write to NTFS
and hence included in the kernel.
John.
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