[Novalug] NTFS read/write support in Linux.

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 13:07 -0500, John wrote:
> As some people were interested in how best to implement read/write 
> support for NTFS drives, the "ntfs-3g" driver is the current best 
> implementation (tested out to millions of writes with various versions 
> of NTFS).  Here's the link to the homepage:
> 
> http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
> 
> Very easy to use (FUSE issues withstanding), and as far as I can tell it 
> seems to be rock solid reliable (no cascading data failures yet).
> 
> 
> Please read the front page and the "Questions and 
> Answers(http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#questions)" section before 
> implementing NTFS-3G.
> 
> 
> Here's a link to the obligatory wikipedia article:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G
> 
> NTFS-3G is implemented in most of the latest distro's to some degree or 
> other.  I personally can vouch for its inclusion in INSERT, System 
> Rescue CD, and KNOPPIX 5.1.  It's in the repository for Ubuntu 6.10 and 
> I'm thinking about doing a port to OpenBSD.

It's also in Fedora and should now be working properly with SELinux
(q.v. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211767 ),
although I haven't tried it myself yet.

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