[Techtalk] writing to ntfs?

[Yaroslav Fedevych]

Rasjid Wilcox wrote:

>>The solution is that you should keep a FAT32 partition for shared data...
> 
> 
> Yaroslav, unless you can confirm otherwise, I going to assume that your 
> comments are directed at the the Linux-NTFS project, which is the well known 
> one, and has always(?) stated that write support was experimental.

Yes, I meant Linux-NTFS project (hmmm, yanked out of RH9.0?). As far as 
I can see, Captive has another pitfall: you must be an authorized user 
of Winbloze to use it. Although in my country it's not forbidden to do 
reverse engineering, I still have to pay $$$ to use Captive -- the cost 
of Windows, if I want to remain lawful.

So, if you have already a Windows in your posession, then no problem. If 
you have it not, or (the worst) you have bought a pirate copy -- well, 
you have no right to use Captive as well.

IANAL, but it seems that this scheme works that way. I'm not one of 
kill-em-all-NTFS flamers, if I want to have shared data in files bigger 
than 2gigs, I must go for a read-write support in Ntfs, anyway.

So -- use but beware. This applies to everything...