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#227666 ·published 2006-10-29 13:17 UTC
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  │ CONFIG_NTFS_RW:                                                                                                                                     │
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  │ This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.                                                                               │
  │                                                                                                                                                     │
  │ The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without                                                                                 │
  │ changing the file length.  No file or directory creation, deletion or                                                                               │
  │ renaming is possible.  Note only non-resident files can be written to                                                                               │
  &#9474; so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot                                                                                &#9474;
  &#9474; be written to.                                                                                                                                      &#9474;
  &#9474;                                                                                                                                                     &#9474;
  &#9474; While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have                                                                                 &#9474;
  &#9474; so far not received a single report where the driver would have                                                                                     &#9474;
  &#9474; damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use.                                                                                     &#9474;
  &#9474;                                                                                                                                                     &#9474;
  &#9474; Note:  While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from                                                                                  &#9474;
  &#9474; scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS                                                                                  &#9474;
  &#9474; write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997),                                                                                    &#9474;
  &#9474; is not safe.                                                                                                                                        &#9474;
  &#9474;                                                                                                                                                     &#9474;
  &#9474; This is currently useful with TopologiLinux.  TopologiLinux is run                                                                                  &#9474;
  &#9474; on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your                                                                                &#9474;
  &#9474; hard disk.  Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not                                                                                 &#9474;
  &#9474; need its own partition.  For more information see                                                                                                   &#9474;
  &#9474; <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/>                                                                                                            &#9474;
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  &#9474; It is perfectly safe to say N here.                                                                                                                 &#9474;
  &#9474;                                                                                                                                                     &#9474;
  &#9474; Symbol: NTFS_RW [=n]                                                                                                                                &#9474;
  &#9474; Prompt: NTFS write support                                                                                                                          &#9474;
  &#9474;   Defined at fs/Kconfig:755                                                                                                                         &#9474;
  &#9474;   Depends on: NTFS_FS                                                                                                                               &#9474;
  &#9474;   Location:                                                                                                                                         &#9474;
  &#9474;     -> File systems                                                                                                                                 &#9474;
  &#9474;       -> DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems                                                                                                                     &#9474;
  &#9474;         -> NTFS file system support (NTFS_FS [=m])                                                                                                  &#9474;
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