[Linux-disciples] Writable NTFS in the kernel?

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:45:07PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> So can anyone point me to a changelog or somesuch that tells
> me that writable NTFS is now in a 2.6-series kernel?

I guess it's still on partial support, but safe. This support should be
fine for a lot of everyday uses. The full-blown support I was thinking of
I guess is with the WINE driver wrapper.  

config NTFS_FS
        tristate "NTFS file system support"
        select NLS
        help
          NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003.

          Saying Y or M here enables read support.  There is partial, but
          safe, write support available.  For write support you must also
          say Y to "NTFS write support" below.
[...]

config NTFS_RW
        bool "NTFS write support"
        depends on NTFS_FS
        help
          This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.

          The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
          changing the file length.  No file or directory creation, deletion or
          renaming is possible.  Note only non-resident files can be written to
          so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
          be written to.

          While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have
          so far not received a single report where the driver would have
          damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.

-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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