Messages in this thread | | | From | jlnance@unity ... | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 2003 08:39:38 -0500 | Subject | Re: [ANN] ntfsprogs (formerly Linux-NTFS) 1.7.0beta released |
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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:05:50PM +0100, Pawel Kot wrote:
> There exists a new ntfs driver called NTFS-TNG, which is present already > in 2.5.x kernel series and it has its backport to the 2.4.x kernel series > (you'll find it at http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/). > > This driver has no write support yet, but it allows you to overwrite the > files, without changing their attributes and size (ie. mmap() the file, > change the contents, write() the file). And the overwrite is considered > safe.
Is this stable enough to allow you to put an ext2 image on an NTFS partition and then mount that image as a r/w loopback mount from Linux?
Thanks,
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