Re: NTFS support

Marten Kemp wrote:

My main fileswerver just went casters-up.
It was a dual 1gHz system running Win Server 2003. The data are
on six SCSI drives in a hardware RAID formatted as NTFS, with the
OS on a single non-RAID drive. I have an old dual 550mHz server to
which I can move the drives and adapter but it'll be 'way too slow
for Windows. If I load Linux on a separate non-RAID drive like I
did for the Windows server will it be able to read the data well
enough for me to move it to some other storage?

Giggling for "linux NTFS" gives me a lot of hits and the impression
that this is okay, but I'd like some confirmation.


I'm unclear on your question. Are you looking to move the data to
another storage via rsync, scp, NFS mounts, or other method, or are you
asking if Linux can mount/write NTFS data itself? As for reading NTFS
from Linux, you definitely can. As for using RAID, you can as well.
NTFS raid from Linux, I'm unsure I've never thought about or tried it,
but I would assume you could do this (I might be wrong).
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