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Fully Open Source NTFS Support Under Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the long-time-coming dept.

lord_rob the only on writes "The Linux NTFS project has released a beta version of its fully open source userspace (using FUSE) 3G-Linux NTFS support driver. According to the developer, this driver beats hands down other NTFS support solutions performance-wise (including commercial Paragon NTFS driver and also Captive NTFS, which is using windows ntfs.sys driver under WINE)." That's right, writing to NTFS even works. Soon it'll mean one less recovery disk to keep around, I hope.

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  1. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by roger6106 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

    Is Slashdot testing out the NTFS writing ability on their site?

  2. We always could write to NTFS by r00t · · Score: 5, Funny

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1

    It's really fast, despite being in userspace, though it can still take a while because there is so much that it needs to do. Start it before you leave work, or before you go to bed.

    As a side effect, your NTFS partition will finally be free of spyware. It's the only way.

    1. Re:We always could write to NTFS by RogL · · Score: 5, Funny

      I say we dust off, ssh in and dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

  3. That's a pity by Darkforge · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... because there is a really good reason to support NTFS in the kernel: so you can boot off of an NTFS drive. That would eliminate the need for Windows users to re-partition their drives when installing Linux, and allow for an easier dual-boot.

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  4. Now it's time to... by ivan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the grand tradition of open source NTFS drivers, this project has now reached the point in it's lifecycle where the developers abandon it and all future implementations start from scratch.