[mythtv-users] VERY OT: Going to Linux.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/31/2007 05:41 PM, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
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> On 5/31/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
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>> On 05/31/2007 05:18 PM, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
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>>> BTW Can Linux look at NTFS partitions
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G
>> http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
>
> Thank you for the Links i'll read them.
>
> While they promise you write capability, remember that it's a
> relatively
>>
>> While they promise you write capability, remember that it's a
>> relatively new capability (compared to, i.e. the "tried-and-true"
>> Linux filesystem drivers)...  (In other words, the advice you got
>> about not using NTFS for the root filesystem is good advice.)
>>
>> Plus, there's the (basically read-only) driver that has been
>> shipping with the kernel for a couple of years now.
>
> Just out of curiosity before i read all of those, which will probably
> answer my question, does the read-only driver able to save back to
> already existing files.  Like with WoW, if i already have a
> SavedVariables.lua file for my addons, will it be able to update that
> file?

That's the "basically" in "basically read-only."  You can change the
stable read-only (i.e. no writing at all) driver into an experimental
write-to-existing-files-only-and-only-as-long-as-file-size-doesn't-change
driver by enabling a kernel compile option, but really, if you want
write support, you're probably better off just using ntfs-3g.