Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] OK to modify existing file?

[Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...>]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, 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?
> 
> 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?

About 100%. Several distros use this trick to run from NTFS read/write for
about one year (PhatLinux). Today the most popular such distro is
TopologiLinux. There wasn't any bug report.

	Szaka