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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2004-02-05 09:01:55
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On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 03:45, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > > damaged. Also, download the Linux-NTFS project distribution from > > Sourceforge at <http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/> and always run the > > included ntfsfix utility after writing to an NTFS partition from > > Linux to fix some of the damage done by the driver. You should run > > The obsoleted NTFS driver in 2.4 wasn't written by this project. When > nobody cared about NTFS for a long time, Anton stepped forward, disabled > the broken write for W2K, XP, fixed fatal issues, wrote 'ntfsfix' for the > people who suffered from the faults of the driver, etc but because the old > driver source wasn't adequate to support many "modern" features of the > kernel (SMP, reentrance, etc) moreover to extend it for W2K, XP support, > he started to rewrite the driver and established this project. At least > this is what I know, I hope it's correct :) Yes, it is exactly as you say. (-: 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/ |
