Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:27:20 -0800 From: Mark Day <mday@apple.com> To: Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntfs and rw in -CURRENT Message-ID: <73572669-42A5-11D7-B8F4-00039354009A@apple.com> In-Reply-To: <016b01c2d5a7$5753ce40$8a01a8c0@dweebsoft.com>
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On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 02:37 AM, Daxbert wrote: > Should I be able to simply create a > file (ie touch foo) on an NTFS volume > that's mounted rw? No, you can't. > I'm following -CURRENT... did I miss > something from the man page? > I thought that at least minimal > write support was available? You just need a stricter definition of "minimal." :-) That minimal write support only allows you to overwrite bytes that already exist in a non-compressed file. That means no growing or shrinking of files. You can't create, delete, move, rename files or directories. You can't change metadata. -Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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