Re: HFS, QNXFS

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:34:43 +0100


On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 02:20:21PM +0100, Jones D (ISaCS) wrote:

> Whilst on the subject of read-only FS's
> Has anyone ever noticed any problems with the NTFS write support?

Last time I checked - a while ago but I haven't seen the problem fixed - it
can and will corrupt your directory entries, and there are horrid race
conditions. Don't use it unless you've mounted a scratch monkey.

> I've been put off from using it in the past, but it would make
> my life a little easier if I knew that it wasn't 'dangerous'
> anymore.

It is dangerous, very ;-)

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