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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2003-09-30 09:46:47
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Hi, On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 06:34, Mike Glover wrote: > I read in the documentation that write support exists in the new > driver if I only want to modify the contents of a file, but not change > the length or create/remove files. Is this correct? How stable is > this? Correct. Completely stable. Used by several Linux distributions to run Linux from a loop mounted ntfs file. > I want to create a large file (in windows), and use this file as an ext3 > partition under linux, using the loop device. I'm creating a boot CD > that needs to have an ext[23] filesystem available to it (ramdisk and > fd0 won't work) without reformatting, no matter what FS is on the disk > already. I've got the loop device trick working for VFAT already. What > are my chances here? Your chances are 100% (-: What you describe above is already used by Linux distributions like TopologiLinux (http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/) and it works fine. 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/ |
