[clue-tech] Linux & NTFS

[David L. Willson]

I use data discs formatted with NTFS and FAT pretty regularly.  Recently NTFS has been
almost as easy-to-use and reliable as FAT.  Here is my list of "gotchas".

 - Neither NTFS nor FAT supports unix permissions on files and directories.  A
permission can be set per filesystem in /etc/fstab.
 - FAT doesn't support large files.  "Large" is usually 4GB, but sometimes is as little
as 2GB.
 - NTFS will not mount gracefully if it wasn't unmounted cleanly, and I still don't
trust fsck.ntfs as much as I trust CHKDSK.

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:41:45 -0600 (MDT), Mike Staver wrote
> I know this topic has been beaten to death over the years - but I'm
> planning on doing most of my new development work for websites using
> CentOS 5.1 x64 now.  I'll be using Eclipse and SVN, so I don't have a
> single need for windows for this project. The issue I have is that on the
> same machine, I have windows Vista installed.  I have a lot of code in one
> place on a disk inside the machine. Rather than have two copies, I'd
> prefer to work from the one location at all times.  Sure, I can keep the
> code on a network share somewhere... but that would slow me up a bit.
> 
> So, my question is - has NTFS ever really been stable under Linux since
> the whole issue of the code being stolen, and then ripped back out of the
> kernel years ago? If I'm going to devote a lot of time to setting this up
> and then relying on it to work and be stable, I'd like to hear from some
> of you first.
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-- David