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Safe to do NTFS in 2.6.0
Name: kyleinc Date: February 17, 2004 at 08:01:29 Pacific OS: Red Hat 9 CPU/Ram: P4 2.4GHz/ 1GB RAM
Comment:
I am recompiling my kernal to 2.6.0. In the configuration menu, there is an option for NTFS support. My question is, would it be safe to install this? It doesn't say experimental, but from a search on this site, it looks like it can corrupt the file system.
Name: Jake Date: February 17, 2004 at 08:11:15 Pacific
Reply:
Just reading can't cause corruption. Don't try writing unless you use captive.
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Response Number 2
Name: taurus Date: February 17, 2004 at 08:42:47 Pacific
Reply:
If you don't have Windows XP (NTFS) on your system, then no need to compile it since it would make the kernel a little bigger (or you can compile it as a module). Again, try not to write to your NTFS unless you want to corrupt your NTFS partition and maybe won't be able to boot Windows XP again (or maybe that would be a good thing--not able to boot Windows XP again!).
taurus
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Response Number 3
Name: ... Date: February 18, 2004 at 01:32:04 Pacific
Reply:
yeah, reading ntfs is safe...but writing ntfs is still very dangerous. I haven't heard about that captive program mentioned above, though...i need to research it further =P
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Response Number 4
Name: 3Dave Date: February 18, 2004 at 02:20:51 Pacific
Reply:
I think in the 2.6 kernels the NTFS support has been re-written from the ground up, providing safe write support but only modifying a file so long as its size does not change more than 1Kb....not too useful in my opinion.
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