[TriLUG] file formats

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

FYI - 

Those who aer going to use captive-ntfs (fuse), make sure you have your
Windows XP cd nearby. It requires you copy two files from the CD (if I
remember correctly -- you can also copy these off your HDD). I could not
-- due to some checksum, or other crazy issue... But the CD worked fine.

Captive-ntfs / fuse was VERY slow reading NTFS for me.... so I abandoned
it in favor of the linux kernel NTFS driver. I'm currently using
gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r4 and have NO issues reading or writing large
files (my last trial was moving a 4gb video I had from EXT3 to NTFS),
and deleting the file on the NTFS drive. I also have Windows XP running
chkdsk at every boot ...to make sure the FS is sane. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Joseph Mack NA3T
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:39 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] file formats

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Stephen Roller wrote:

> For the record, NTFS support on linux is very good and stable right
now.
> Read is perfect, and Write is decent.  Last I checked, the NTFS module

> built in the kernel could write, but not make new files or new 
> directories.

there is the ntfs built on fuse

http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

which they claim has no problems writing. (AFAIK this is not the ntfs in
the kernel).

I use one of the programs that allows ext3 to be mounted rw in windows,
but I just use it occassionally and I've never written video files to
it.

Joe

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