I just installed FC5

[Alma J Wetzker]

James McDonald wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:35:08PM -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 
>>>I suspect its because NTFS write support is fairly new...
>>
>>Fairly new?  perhaps this rendition.  It has been around for years...  It was 
>>only recently that r/w was disabled completely.  I still have a Knoppix CD 
>>which had ntfs with r/w mode enabled.  It's quite a hot item now :)
> 
> 
> As long as I can remember it was always one of those kernel options that had "enable at your own risk" stamped on it.
> 
> They seem to have become even more reticent of late. Now the write support will only write to the file if it stays within the same size of the original or some such....

Indeed, that has always been the only safe way to us NTFS write.  My 
guess is that there is something strange going on that is just too goofy 
to crack.  (Makes me feel _Real_ comfortable using NTFS on production 
stuff...)

     -- Alma