From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [216.145.245.197] (helo=mx01.dls.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Jln9x-0003y1-7e for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:33:25 +0200 Received: from gw.mwester.net ([209.242.5.110] helo=[192.168.1.111]) by mx01.dls.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Jln9s-0002Hp-9W for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:33:20 -0500 Message-ID: <4804CA41.7050800@dls.net> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:31:13 -0500 From: "Mike (mwester)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <48038AFE.2030904@dls.net> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: union fs X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:33:25 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > What do you mean ntfs-3g is not write safe? Nobody ever told us. > > It's certainly used and certified on several ARM and MIPS embedded devices > regularly. > > Regards, Szaka According to the official docs, due to limitations of the fuse driver for 2.4 kernels, ntfs-3g on such old kernels is prone to data loss. This is a fuse problem, but effectively if you value your NTFS partition's consistency, it means that ntfs-3g on such old kernels should be read-only. On 2.6, ntfs-3g works wonderfully on all the devices in read and write modes, and is the driver I recommend for NTFS support on the SlugOS (ARM) distro. Sorry for not being more clear. Mike (mwester)