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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2003-04-24 09:54:03
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Cool. Dave Jones maintains a popular and influental "2.[56] - what to
> expect" document. NTFS changes are completely missing. As I mentioned in
> one of my emails earlier, there are a lot of misunderstandings about the
> state of NTFS support on Linux. IMHO it would be nice to clear it up a bit.
>
> I tried to collect a short feature differences list between the old and new
> drivers what we could submit for this document [and probably also update
> linux-ntfs web pages and list what distros use the old vs new driver], e.g.
>
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> A new, rewritten NTFS driver got merged during 2.5. It has the
> following main benefits over the old driver:
> - SMP and reentrant safe
> - support bigger than 4 kB cluster sizes
> - full support for sparse files on W2K/XP/W2K3
> - mmap() support
- stable
- much faster
- read-only except for safe file overwrite support without changes to
the file size (a development version allows changes in file size
already and it might be completed in time for 2.6 but no promises)
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> Please add your comments, fixes, enhancements then let's submit it.
Above is my proposed updates. Otherwise good idea. I didn't know about
this list. Where is it?
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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