Re: Draft6

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:46:10 +0000

K.Garloff@ping.de said:
> AFAIK, it really works, so the "experimental" rather means that it's
> not tested to a degree we want filesystems to be tested and that it
> was not made by studying internal NTFS docu, as it was not provided by
> M$.

I always took 'experimental' to be an indication that it didn't work for
everyone. It certainly doesn't work for me, unless it was fixed between pre5
and pre9.

devel2 /mnt # uname -a
Linux devel2.axiom.internal 2.2.0-pre5 #79 Thu Jan 7 16:48:13 GMT 1999 i686 unknown
devel2 /mnt # insmod ntfs
devel2 /mnt # mount /dev/hda1 -tntfs /mnt/nt
devel2 /mnt # cd nt
devel2 /mnt/nt # ls
BOOT.LST SECURITY.BIN adminstuff bootsect.dos pagefile.sys
COMMAND.COM TEMP boot.sav download siemens.reg
Program Files WINNT bootini.bac host-news
devel2 /mnt/nt # echo hello > asd
devel2 /mnt/nt # cat asd
hello
devel2 /mnt/nt # cd ..
devel2 /mnt # umount nt
devel2 /mnt # mount /dev/hda1 -tntfs /mnt/nt
devel2 /mnt # cd nt
devel2 /mnt/nt # ls
BOOT.LST SECURITY.BIN adminstuff bootini.bac host-news
COMMAND.COM TEMP asd bootsect.dos pagefile.sys
Program Files WINNT boot.sav download siemens.reg
devel2 /mnt/nt # cat asd
devel2 /mnt/nt # dmesg | tail -1
NTFS version 990102

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