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Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)Posted Jan 29, 2009 10:29 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)In reply to: Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online) by dlang Parent article: Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)
There are quite a few real-world bugs still in NTFS-3G, I just saw one this morning from an Ubuntu user. While NTFS in its Windows implementations seems very stable, NTFS-3G has had less time to mature, so it's best to limit its use if possible - e.g. for a dual boot system put most of the shared data on FAT32 so that most NTFS writes are from Windows.
NTFS has advantages when Windows is running (e.g. it supports shadow copies for consistent backups of open files) but not for Linux.
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Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online) Posted Jan 30, 2009 15:15 UTC (Fri) by szaka (subscriber, #12740) [Link]
We are not aware of any NTFS-3G bug. If you check out http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html then you can find that there are many problems which are attributed to NTFS-3G when in fact they are not related to any file system in any way.
About the maturity of the 9 years old NTFS-3G code base see http://lwn.net/Articles/316471/
Unfortunately we, NTFS-3G developers, don't share your view about the stability of the Windows NTFS driver. There are many ways to crash Windows via the NTFS file system driver. In fact Microsoft documents that system crash is expected for instance if NTFS is corrupted. This is completely unacceptable for us. NTFS-3G survives millions of fsfuzz iterations.
I think our test suite is one of the most extensive ones in the industry (it's not complete list): http://ntfs-3g.org/quality.html Besides we are maintaining the PJD POSIX file system test suit as well: http://ntfs-3g.org/pjd-fstest.html what of course our advanced driver fully passes.
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