NTFS-3G goes stable...1.0 Released!

[eddie]

The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, with the exception of full file ownership and access right support.

The purpose of the project is to develop, continuously quality test and support a trustable, feature rich and high performance solution for hardware platforms and operating systems whose users need to reliably interoperate with NTFS. Besides this practical goal, the project also aims to explore the limits of a hybrid, kernel/user space file system driver approach. Performance, reliability and feature richness per invested effort are being examined.

Very silently, NTFS-3G released their first STABLE release in form of 1.0 today. It is a major achievement for Linux as many Windows users will feel at home while performing write operations on their NTFS partitions. I really would like to congratulate NTFS-3G team for their dedicated and honest efforts

Source: NTFS-3G Release History

[maxme]

Wow !!!! great news !!!

Finally NTFS write will safe through linux.

Good work NTFS-3G team

[techtronic]

Great News
I think I will switch to Linux if NTFS is supported as all my partitions are in NTFS Format

[gxsaurav]

wow....tooooooooooo good. Kudos for this, now atleast i can use Ubuntu with Vista properly

[Pathik]

greattt news...

[amitava82]

well i've been using NTFS-3G quite sometime now and its been full stable for me. so the "stable" label is not so important for me but definetly it will encourage those faint-hearted window$ guys to checkout linux.

[techtronic]

Originally Posted by amitava82

well i've been using NTFS-3G quite sometime now and its been full stable for me. so the "stable" label is not so impotent for me but definetly it will encourage those faint-hearted window$ guys to checkout linux.

Buddy, please correct your post (Impotent as Important)

[praka123]

kudos to linux-ntfs project team...
btw what about some winfs filesystem..they r yet to launch?

[gxsaurav]

WinFS will relese with either Vista SP1 or next version of Windows 7. Linux group will again have to play catchup

[praka123]

^^ but only for the use for windows to Linux movers or dual boot b/w lin and win.

[eddie]

Originally Posted by amitava82

it will encourage those faint-hearted window$ guys to checkout linux.

It will also encourage distro maintainers to accept ntfs-3g. Not many maintainers want their users to act like guinea pigs and compromise the quality of their distro. So it is not about just the faint hearted people