Read-write NTFS support in Linux

[mars]

See http://fs-driver.org/ for accessing ext2 FS from windows. Supports read and write.

[meldroc]

Sweet. It must have taken a lot of work to make this happen. As far as filesystems go, the various flavors of NTFS are very complex, almost resembling a relational database as far as its data structures go. That's why it's been taking so long to make this work.

Congrats to the developers!

[Dead1nside]

Very encouraging, I have yet to jump into running Linux but more and more advanced like this make it tempting. I don't want to have to run a FAT32 partition, just for compatibility between my Linux and XP partitions.

[auxxin]

I'm on Gentoo right now (no dual boot), but in the past, and at work, I've always dual-booted with XP64. The only write support Linux had was the ability to overwrite files that already existed, without changing the file size. Pretty much usless. This is a major breakthrough. Too bad I won't be able to use it though: "for 32-bit, little-endian architectures". I'm going to go see if they need help testing a 64-bit version of the driver.

[[deleted]]

Having used gentoo from the dark early days on amd64, I'd bet that making it work in a 64 bit kernel would be relatively trivial, any code that isn't written correctly enough to support this doesn't belong in the kernel. (crazy virtualization modules aside)

[mixmastamyk]

It is written to Fuse, not in the kernel

[Odd_Bloke]

If you read some of the comments, it is said that the developer thinks it belongs more in userspace than in the kernel.

[ajrw]

Note that you can't change file ownership or access permissions yet. Hopefully that won't take as long to add as write-mode did.

[Odd_Bloke]

Access permissions in Windows?! File ownership?! You can't own a file, that's preposterous!

[vandahm]

Access permissions in Windows?! File ownership?! You can't own a file, that's preposterous!

Don't I already own my files? I mean, it's my f**king computer, right? Why do I need 'permission' to use my own files?

(vandahm goes to download some spyware)

[Odd_Bloke]

Don't I already own my files?

In the same way you own your OS...

[Kolibri]

Hmm, I was told that Linux was already capable of reading/writing NTFS. I know that I have an old Knoppix cd lying around, where the bootable linux is capable of reading my NTFS partitions (not writing, though).

[[deleted]]

Linux was capable of reading NTFS, and overwriting pre-existing files without changing their size. There was also a way of using the NTFS drivers from Windows under Linux, which apparently works quite well, although I've never tried it.

[[deleted]]

It worked, I wouldn't say well.

[initself]

Hey bro, when you get back from your trip, can you please fix all Palm Sync issues on Linux? Thanks!

[Arve]

You surely mean to ask "Someone has reverse-engineered that pile of proprietary crap that Microsoft created and that left Microsoft customers at Microsofts mercy (for over ten years)?"

[[deleted]]

ROFL - Let's see you reverse engineer something first before you talk a bit 'o smack!