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Is it possible to read NTFS5 in the future?

DISCUSSION Liu Wen 2 participants 2 messages Jun 1, 2001

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NTFS5 is really an efficient filesystem under Windows 2000. I have a 12G data partition kept as FAT32 just in order to use it under Linux. But I am thinking of converting it to NTFS,which would be very inconvinient to use Linux. How about the kernel developing project to work on NTFS?

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NTFS5 is really an efficient filesystem under Windows 2000. I have a 12G data partition kept as FAT32 just in order to use it under Linux. But I am thinking of converting it to NTFS,which would be very inconvinient to use Linux. How about the kernel developing project to work on NTFS?

Using the at least kernel 2.4.4-ac18 (note you have to use -ac kernels at the moment) you should be fine accessing Win2k NTFS volumes from Linux READ-ONLY. Only the advanced Win2k NTFS features like reparse points, quota, etc. will not work under linux as of now.

As of the moment write support for NTFS is still EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, especially under Win2k, so you better not do it unless you are participating in NTFS development on Linux and have backups...

So basically NTFS is under development. There is no need for yet another NTFS project. Just join ours if you are interested:
http://sf.net/projects/linux-ntfs

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