Re: Current status of NTFS support

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment?  I noticed that it's
> still marked "Dangerous" in the kernel configuration.  This is important to me
> because it looks like I'll have to start using it next week.  My office laptop
> is going to be "upgraded" from Windows 98 to 2000.  Of course, I hardly ever
> boot into Windows any more since installing a Linux partition last year.  But
> our corporate email standard forces me to use Lotus Notes, which I run under
> Wine.   The Notes executables and databases are installed on my Windows
> partition.  The upgrade, though, will involve wiping the hard drive, allocating
> the whole drive to a single NTFS partition, and reinstalling Notes after
> installing Windows 2000 .  That means bye-bye FAT32 partition and hello NTFS.  I
> can't mount it read-only because I'll still have to update my Notes databases
> from Linux.  So how risky is this?

You need to update notes databases. Fine. Why not 
cp -a /ntfs/lotus.databases /usr and only ever update them on ext2?

Granted, you will not be able to use lotus notes under w2000. Does it
matter?
								Pavel
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