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10.6: Enable native NTFS read/write support
Yeah... I'd be careful about turning this on for regular use. All non-Microsoft write-capable drivers are reverse-engineered (think of it as a team of people poking at the filesystem in various ways and documenting its behavior), since NTFS is a closed proprietary filesystem with no published specs for write drivers. The moment that Microsoft changes a small detail in the filesystem via an automatic update, you could potentially destroy your NTFS volume. Further, as smart as the reverse-engineers must have been, I'd bet they don't have everything 100 percent perfect; it's hard to cover all edge cases in a complex system like this.
10.6: Enable native NTFS read/write support
I've been using NTFS-3G for years doing daily accesses to my NTFS backup drives and dual or triple boot configured machines. Yes, there is a possibility that corruption or damage could occur... but I've literally written hundreds of gigabytes to NTFS drives without ever having it happen. It is a very robust and well fleshed out driver package. In all honesty... I'd be more concerned about a Windows box BSODing and leaving my disk damaged than I ever would be concerned about a Linux or OSX machine writing bad data through NTFS-3G. |
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