[KLUG Members] Is NTFS not supported?

[Bryan J. Smith]

jeff wrote:
> my suse can read my ntfs v5 partition just fine :) so before you go
> and say it's not supported by "linux" umm... yeah

Really?  I guess I better go read the NTFS code.  Dooh!  I guess
NTFS v5 doesn't necessarily mean encrypted.

I guess it is safe to say that an encrypted NTFS v5 filesystem is
not readable yet?  Unless someone has found a way to read the key
from the filesystem -- which is a possibility.

Which is the reason why I said "I won't go into more details on NTFS
v5 for the sake of brievity" -- because NTFS v5, while offering an
"encrypted" mode, does is transparently (without user intervention
and automatically).  That means the key it uses must be read in and
loaded somewhere in the boot process (or in the registry on the
non-encrypted system filesystem) -- which means it is a "false
sense" of "security."

Oh well, food for thought.  It is obvious my Win2K experience is now
showing its age.  I largely stopped using/supporting Win2K after NT
5.0 beta 2 (before it was even renamed as Win2K).

-- TheBS

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