Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:39:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:39:28 -0400 Received: from [216.151.155.121] ([216.151.155.121]:25615 "EHLO belphigor.mcnaught.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:39:18 -0400 To: lee@ricis.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Current status of NTFS support In-Reply-To: <86256A34.0079A841.00@smtpnotes.altec.com> <01042101555600.03154@blackbox> <01042020185806.00845@linux> From: Doug McNaught Date: 20 Apr 2001 21:39:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: Lee Leahu's message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:18:58 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lee Leahu writes: > would somebody be kind enough to explain why writing to > the ntfs file system is extremely dangerous, and what are the > developers doing to make writing to ntfs filesystem safe? It's dangerous because NTFS is a proprietary format, and the full rules for updating it (including journals etc) are known only to Microsoft and those that have signed Microsoft NDAs. If you update it incorrectly it gets corrupted and you will lose data. It's certainly possible to reverse-engineer these rules, but very difficult and time-consuming. -Doug -- The rain man gave me two cures; he said jump right in, The first was Texas medicine--the second was just railroad gin, And like a fool I mixed them, and it strangled up my mind, Now people just get uglier, and I got no sense of time... --Dylan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/