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From: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] ntfsprogs (formerly Linux-NTFS) 1.7.0beta released
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 08:39:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030120133938.GA2842@ncsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301191600180.16178-100000@urtica.linuxnews.pl>

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:05:50PM +0100, Pawel Kot wrote:

> There exists a new ntfs driver called NTFS-TNG, which is present already
> in 2.5.x kernel series and it has its backport to the 2.4.x kernel series
> (you'll find it at http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/).
> 
> This driver has no write support yet, but it allows you to overwrite the
> files, without changing their attributes and size (ie. mmap() the file,
> change the contents, write() the file). And the overwrite is considered
> safe.

Is this stable enough to allow you to put an ext2 image on an NTFS
partition and then mount that image as a r/w loopback mount from
Linux?

Thanks,

Jim

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-20 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-18 16:44 [ANN] ntfsprogs (formerly Linux-NTFS) 1.7.0beta released Anton Altaparmakov
2003-01-19  9:10 ` Joshua Kwan
2003-01-19 15:05   ` Pawel Kot
2003-01-20 13:39     ` jlnance [this message]
2003-01-20 14:14       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2003-01-20 14:50         ` Pawel Kot
2003-01-20 14:53           ` Anton Altaparmakov
2003-01-20 14:48       ` Pawel Kot
2003-01-23 23:01 ` Pavel Machek
2003-01-28 10:46   ` Anton Altaparmakov

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