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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2005-11-04 23:12:04
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On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Olive wrote: > I have recently used the ntfs driver with the fuse module. This driver has > partial ntfs write support: if you try to make a file it does not always work > (particularly if you try to create a lot of file) but if the driver accept to > make the file it does not damage the file system. I find this approach > particularly intersting. However it is not well documented and this > fonctionality is not present in the kernel module. Are there any plans to > incorpore it in the kernel module? Depends what you are asking about. The approach or the actual code? If the approach then yes, quite possibly, depends how quickly the full directory operations are implemented, i.e. whether they are ready before the driver is ready to have directory operations added or not... If the code, then not at present, at least I don't as I haven't even looked at the related code yet... I thought it was documented in the ntfsmount man page but I may well be wrong. FYI: It can only do the simplest directory operations at present, i.e. it can add/remove leaf nodes, which means that only a few files/directories can be created in each directory but quite a few files/directories can be deleted in a bid directory as there are more leaf nodes than non-leaf nodes in a trypical directory B tree. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
