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Re: Mounting NTFS partitions....




On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Ze'ev Maor wrote:

> I've compiled 2.1.119 and read-only seems to work fine, I've tried to mount
> an NTFS partition as rw to check the beta write driver, I tried copying a 10
> byte ascii file into the NTFS partition and the system crashed on the spot,
> no ctrl-alt-del reboot, no nothing. Panicly, I booted my NT and thank god,
> the partition remaind intact (it even had the new file in it;-), I guess I
> should be happy with that, you should'nt play around with such experimental
> drivers - not when it's  something as important as an NTFS partition on the
> line.


just as a side note: NTFS is proven slower than FAT. the only reasons to
run NT with NTFS and not FAT are the alocation sizes and file
ownership/permissions. e2fs is naturally faster than both :-)

> BTW, what's this thing with not being able to set sound card parameters
> while compiling the modules?? Not that I have any problem with setting it in

I think the PnP code is supposed to take care of it...