ntfs-3g.org — It looks like NTFS-3G has just hit 1.0. The release history page today said: "Stable Version 1.0 (February 21, 2007) change: document and release version update to stable status"Readers are reminded at this point that 1.0 (which in the Windows world often means "little better than beta") has a very near magical meaning in Linux-land.
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dochtuirFeb 21, 2007
This makes using a dual boot setup a whole lot easier
bigtomrodneyFeb 21, 2007
Last I knew people who moan about dupes got dugg down.
hackwrenchFeb 21, 2007
>That would mean the linux filesystem would be ntfs!And that's bad because?
lengauFeb 21, 2007
@Tsen - After you get to around 85-90% full on the disk, even FS's like EXT and Reiser can fragment (there's no longer enough space to keep moving the files around). However, it is much better than NTFS, in which your disk fragments as soon as you write to a file twice nonconsecutively.
supergeekFeb 21, 2007
I think you mean "in the Microsoft world." There are many very solid, usable third-party applications for Windows. It's the snake-nest of the Windows OS that usually has problems, not the apps.
werrismysFeb 22, 2007
I have used it since last july and have yet to experience data loss.Well, I did lose one external USB drive but that was because a Windows XP machine bluescreened while runnins scandisk on it ;-DBut no data loss because of ntfs-3g. It used to often slow down to nil when doing lots of concurrent access or wrint DVD images or other big files, dunno if that part is fixed.