[vox] Re: Support for "safe" and "reliable" writing to NTFS from Linux?

[ME]

Looks like I not only missed the /. on this
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/02/1536227&mode=thread
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/10/191202&mode=thread

but I also missed it on vox-tech two months ago:
http://lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2003-12/msg00124.html

Thanks to <SilentRob> on #lugod for letting me know about these prior
articles.

-ME

ME said:
> Many of you know that eh NFTS driver in the kernel does fine for reading,
> but is "dangerous" for writing.
>
> Is there an alterantive for writing to NTFS from Linux?
>
> Background...
>
> While "building" my new video capture system (using WinTV PVR-350 PCI
> card(s) and a new computer with large disk) I am looking at what
> filesystems would be a good filesystem for a dual boot system (until I
> buy, download, or build good DVD authoring software with quality subtitle
> encoding from various subtitle formats) and as a result will suffer the
> use of the crutch known as MS Windows XP until a good OpenSource
> alternative is available.
>
> Anyway, during my googling, I found this:
> http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
>
> It appears to be a "wine-like" solution to making a Linux-capable (not
> based) solutions to making NTFS write support from Linux possible.
>
> This means, they rely upon code/files from MS to make this work.
>
> Like anything, there are benfits and disadvantages to somethig like this:
> Benefit: Linux users can keep and use NTFS and access from Linux making
> Linux more compatable.
> Disadvantage: it encourages people to retain their copy/install of windows
> instead of making a full transition away from full OpenSource.
>
> Whatever the outcome, I figured that some people on this list might mid
> this very useful. I will be reading more about it over the next few weeks.
> Loks like it was announced last year in October. :-)
>
> Why did I not see this. Maybe I missed it on /.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> -ME
>
>