Subject: Re: Status of NTFS
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/07/2003 12:42:14
On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 11:54 AM, Steven Grunza wrote:
> I know that reading of NTFS is possible (I've been doing it for a dual
> boot Win2K Pro system for a while) I've heard that writing is still
> "experimental".
I read win2k file systems frequently. The issue with writing is that
we don't support block allocation on NTFS. So, you can write to files
in ranges that are already allocated on-disk, but you cannot create new
files, nor can you extend existing files.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>