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From: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 08:39:38 -0500
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Subject: Re: [ANN] ntfsprogs (formerly Linux-NTFS) 1.7.0beta released
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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:05:50PM +0100, Pawel Kot wrote:

> There exists a new ntfs driver called NTFS-TNG, which is present already
> in 2.5.x kernel series and it has its backport to the 2.4.x kernel series
> (you'll find it at http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/).
> 
> This driver has no write support yet, but it allows you to overwrite the
> files, without changing their attributes and size (ie. mmap() the file,
> change the contents, write() the file). And the overwrite is considered
> safe.

Is this stable enough to allow you to put an ext2 image on an NTFS
partition and then mount that image as a r/w loopback mount from
Linux?

Thanks,

Jim
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