What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 122.167.17.100]
on April 17, 2008 02:09 AM
A good article, correct from my experience too.
NTFS write support is problematic. There is a reason the folks working on it say it is in beta or whatever, and describe the known problems. In my case, took the risk for good reason back in mid-2007, and had regular issues with the (already known) truncated file problem. A couple of times when the disk got full, it became corrupted (no error message about disk full, just merrily carried on writing the data wherever). And that reminds, the statistics on disk usage were sometimes "behind the times" until I learnt better, that is what led to attempted overfilling.
It remains a work in progress today. Still, it is far better than no NTFS access. Those working on it have been honest about its beta status, and for their years of hard work, mostly to figure out various tricks that MS has stuck in there in an attempt to prevent anybody else from accessing and writing NTFS, they deserve much praise.
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What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 122.167.17.100] on April 17, 2008 02:09 AMNTFS write support is problematic. There is a reason the folks working on it say it is in beta or whatever, and describe the known problems. In my case, took the risk for good reason back in mid-2007, and had regular issues with the (already known) truncated file problem. A couple of times when the disk got full, it became corrupted (no error message about disk full, just merrily carried on writing the data wherever). And that reminds, the statistics on disk usage were sometimes "behind the times" until I learnt better, that is what led to attempted overfilling.
It remains a work in progress today. Still, it is far better than no NTFS access. Those working on it have been honest about its beta status, and for their years of hard work, mostly to figure out various tricks that MS has stuck in there in an attempt to prevent anybody else from accessing and writing NTFS, they deserve much praise.
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