Re: read only
From: Michael W. Cocke (cocke_at_catherders.com)
Date: 01/17/04
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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:09:02 -0500
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:05:36 GMT, Noi <noi@siam.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:19:10 -0500, Michael W. Cocke thoughtfully wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:07:42 GMT, Bit Twister
>> <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:59:39 GMT, The_egg_Man@sulpher.com wrote:
>>>> i have linux mandrake 9.2, 2 hard drives, linux is on the second hd .
>>>> I have winXP on my first hd. How come i can't write to this
>>>> drive???
>>>
>>>Micro$not does not want to release the directory structure details
>>>because they cannot stand competition.
>>>
>>>Writing to NTFS is not supported and could wipe out your XP system. If
>>>you want to send files to XP, create a fat32 logical disk.
>>
>> I still cannot see why I'm the only person who has ever actually
>> researched this question instead of parroting the same answer over and
>> over...
>>
>> http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
>>
>>
>
>It's working fine for you? Xmas, I just installed the read-only ntfs rpm.
>You think I should uninstall that one and before installing the read-write
>ntfs?
>
>Do you think licensing issues is the reason why jankratochvil.net has a
>read-write ntfs and Linux ntfs org doesn't?
>
>Some posts I skip reading, or the ISP drops a few posts, I almost never
>read the NG FAQs, though I save a copy every time it's updated. So thanks
>for being patient and reposting the link.
It's been working fine for me on a couple of systems for a couple of
months now... As to if you should uninstall the R/O and install R/W,
it depends on your needs. I'm working hard to get as much of our
critical operations off Windows as I can, but it's tricky (for us), so
I'm kind of phasing things in and out...
I had to rebuild one of our three Windows systems from scratch two
weeks ago because the registery barfed, and another system is showing
signs of the same problems... I've REALLY got better things to do
than reinstall world+dog every 6 months!
To answer your second question, If you read the technical bits on both
of the web sites, you'll find that the two drivers use radically
different approaches. The linux-ntfs driver is using a pure reverse
engineer, which is a heck of a technical feat, but since microsloth
won't tell anyone what they did, is problematical without a whole ton
of testing. Jans approach is to use the windows API reverse
engineering project (captive) to run the official microsoft filesystem
driver, which gets around the reverse engineering issues, but is a
whole other programming challenge. It's more than just a licensing
issue, I'd say.
Mike-
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