ntfs write?

[Net Llama!]

On 12/27/2004 02:51 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:13 -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 
>>Any progress being made on linux' ability to write to an ntfs (WinXP) 
>>partition? I transferred some .avi's via samba to an ntfs share, and 
>>they seem not to have written correctly. The titles are mixed up, and 
>>the files usually play for only about 2 seconds before stalling.
>>
> 
> 
> In the 2.6 kernel, there is the ability to write to ntfs volumes - if
> you do not change the size of the file. Just the contents. So, it looks
> like samba will remain.

how does one not change the size of a file when changing its contents?


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