[ale] Re: Trying to make the switch to Linux

[Geoffrey]

John Marasco wrote:
> Just out of curiousity...
> 
> Does Linux corrupt NTFS filesystems for future Linux read/write 
> operation or only wrt future NT read/write operation?  In this instance 
> you wouldn't be reading and writing from the NTFS filesystem with NT 
> anymore as you would be performing a Linux install.  I read the same 
> thing you posted but I interpreted it to mean that Linux "corrupts" NTFS 
> such that NT4.0 may not read it anymore.  I just assumed that Microsoft 
> implemented some type of non-conforming support for whatever NTFS 
> standard the Linux NTFS support was written to.  I didn't believe that 
> Linux would corrupt an NTFS partition so that Linux couldn't read from 
> that partition any more.

Linux has never been able to write to NTFS, so whether M$ changed it or 
not is not an issue.  Personally, I've not researched it beyond that.  I 
would say that if you intend to attempt to write to an NTFS file system 
via Linux, you better back it up first..

> 
> Not that I'm advocating using Linux with NTFS, I'm just curious as to 
> the level of NTFS support in Linux.

Writing has never been stable.

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