ntfs write?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:31 -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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?

There's the rub. Not many real world uses for this feature. I guess it
means the driver is able to find the file parts. Which is a necessary
start. I think the problem with ntfs is that it is a live file system.
That is, activities on the disk interact very actively with the nt
device driver. Probably because of all the odd callbacks one can get on
file activities.