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Probably prudent - would not trust any implementation except native ones in Windows that does writes.
well, you should. write support for NTFS is supported by quite a few tools, now, including the Linux Kernel.
In fact, it just corrupted the partition table of my external backup drive this year. Which was last time I trusted it for anything but read-only mounting.
Looks like it's read-only at the moment, but still pretty cool. It's dual-licensed as MIT or Apache 2.0, so it ought to be usable just about anywhere.
Question for the experts! Has NTFS changed much in... 20 years? Linux filesystems seem to be evolving all the time (try to install any new distro today and check out how many filesystems you can pick from the dropdown...) Apple replaced one filesystem with another in just the past few years, with apparently some very advanced new features. But NTFS is just... NTFS? Does NTFS today look anything like how it looked in…
This sounds like evolution of options more than evolution of existing file systems
Is ext4 still not most popular for most end users? Curious how much ext4 has changed vs NTFS past... ~20 years (ext4 went stable 2008 apparently)
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well, you should. write support for NTFS is supported by quite a few tools, now, including the Linux Kernel.
And I've had the new linux NTFS driver corrupt files more than once. In fact, it just corrupted the partition table of my external backup drive this year. Which was last time I trusted it for anything but read-only mounting.
And I have had /windows/ corrupt NTFS volumes.
Personal anecdotes rock :D
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well, you should. write support for NTFS is supported by quite a few tools, now, including the Linux Kernel.
And I've had the new linux NTFS driver corrupt files more than once. In fact, it just corrupted the partition table of my external backup drive this year. Which was last time I trusted it for anything but read-only mounting.
Question for the experts! Has NTFS changed much in... 20 years? Linux filesystems seem to be evolving all the time (try to install any new distro today and check out how many filesystems you can pick from the dropdown...) Apple replaced one filesystem with another in just the past few years, with apparently some very advanced new features. But NTFS is just... NTFS? Does NTFS today look anything like how it looked in…
ReFS on Windows is where the changes are coming to. finally a 1st party filesystem which supports Copy on Write file cloning. a lot of core features of NTFS aren't supported on ReFS, so it's clearly not intended to be a replacement for NTFS.
Question for the experts! Has NTFS changed much in... 20 years? Linux filesystems seem to be evolving all the time (try to install any new distro today and check out how many filesystems you can pick from the dropdown...) Apple replaced one filesystem with another in just the past few years, with apparently some very advanced new features. But NTFS is just... NTFS? Does NTFS today look anything like how it looked in…
Question for the experts! Has NTFS changed much in... 20 years? Linux filesystems seem to be evolving all the time (try to install any new distro today and check out how many filesystems you can pick from the dropdown...) Apple replaced one filesystem with another in just the past few years, with apparently some very advanced new features. But NTFS is just... NTFS? Does NTFS today look anything like how it looked in…
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> Looks like it's read-only at the moment, but still pretty cool. That's how Linux NTFS support started out, too. What is it about NTFS that makes writing hugely more difficult than reading?
It’s probably mostly done out of carefulness. I’d do the same if I were to write my own implementation of a file system. Bugs and mistakes in the code are already not great when implementing the read part. But if you mess up the writing well now you’re gonna cause corruption of existing data. No one likes that :) Better to stick to just reading for a long while, and weed out most of the bugs and getting an even deepe…
Exactly. I have my own ext2 driver for a couple of hobby OS projects where the read side is extremely stable, but as the write side involves inode allocation, block/bitmap allocation etc. I don't turn it on on outside of testing since I know it's going to destroy the disk images until I "get it right".
Question for the experts! Has NTFS changed much in... 20 years? Linux filesystems seem to be evolving all the time (try to install any new distro today and check out how many filesystems you can pick from the dropdown...) Apple replaced one filesystem with another in just the past few years, with apparently some very advanced new features. But NTFS is just... NTFS? Does NTFS today look anything like how it looked in…
> Linux filesystems seem to be evolving all the time (try to install any new distro today and check out how many filesystems you can pick from the dropdown...) This sounds like evolution of options more than evolution of existing file systems Is ext4 still not most popular for most end users? Curious how much ext4 has changed vs NTFS past... ~20 years (ext4 went stable 2008 apparently)