[Nottingham] Shared filesystem

[Martin]

Philip Scott wrote:
[...]
> 
>>>>A BIG bonus for the 2.6 kernel is that full NTFS read-write is now
>>>>supported.
> 
> 
>>It is now... read the 2.6 notes.
> 
> 
> This is very much news to me.. 
> (From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt)
> 
> "The driver currently supports read-only mode (with no fault-tolerance, 
> encryption or journalling) and very limited, but safe, write support."
> 

 From "The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6
  Joseph Pranevich - jpranevich <at> kniggit.net"
(sorry, lost the link)

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Linux 2.6 also features improved (and rewritten) support for the NTFS 
filesystem and it is now possible to mount a NTFS volume read/write. 
(Writing support is still experimental and is gradually being improved; 
it may or may not be enabled for the final kernel release.)
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> You can, however, access NTFS drives using Captive
> 
> http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
> 
> Which uses WINE and windows' own DLL to get the job done :)

Mmmmm... Sneaky!


Regards,
Martin


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