[ubuntu-uk] Bug #1 and onwards....

[Gareth France]

Correct, however it doesn't change the fact that the very good advice was
dismissed in that way and ubuntu is made to look bad. Far from it, the fact
it can write to NTFS at all is a damn miracle!

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:

> alan c wrote:
>
> > In hindsight the biggest problem I had (emotionally that is) was
> > recognising that even when there was a clear motivation for Ubuntu,
> > there were very strong immediate influences indeed against (ubuntu) on
> > grounds of an 'NTFS Drivers' myth. I can guess that he had simply not
> > looked at SMART data, only the file system. I sense a whiff of
> > prejudice. But then I think the relative seems to work a lot with
> > Windows.
>
> It's not a myth. NTFS support in Linux is reverse-engineered, and
> fsck.ntfs is by most accounts not as good at checking or fixing NTFS as
> the checkdisk utility in Windows.
>
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