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Fri Dec 19 15:24:20 1997
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v2.1.73/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
- Orig date:
Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
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+NTFS Overview
+=============
+
+To mount an NTFS volume, use the filesystem type 'ntfs'. The driver
+currently works only in read-only mode, with no fault-tolerance
+supported. If you enable the experimental write support, make sure
+you can recover from a complete loss of data. For ftdisk support,
+limit success was reported with volume sets on top of the md driver,
+although mirror and stripe sets should work as well - if the md
+driver can be talked into using the same lay-out as Windows NT.
+
+The ntfs driver supports the following mount options:
+iocharset=name Character set to use when returning file names.
+ Unlike VFAT, NTFS suppresses names that contain
+ unconvertible characters
+utf8=<bool> Use UTF-8 for converting file names
+uni_xlate=<bool>,2 Use the VFAT-style encoding for file names outside
+ the current character set. A boolean value will
+ enable the feature, a value of 2 will enable the
+ encoding as documented in vfat.txt:
+ ':', (u & 0x3f), ((u>>6) & 0x3f), (u>>12),
+uid=
+gid=
+umask= These options work as documented in mount(8).
+ By default, the files are owned by root and
+ not readable by somebody else.
+posix=<bool> If enabled, the file system distinguishes between
+ upper and lower case. The 8.3 alias names are presented
+ as hard links instead of being suppressed.
+
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