How come NTFS is r/w?

[NiksaVel]

Hey all,

since I've started messing around with linux, I've been told over and over that we can't write to NTFS, only read...

And now with mintDisk I have read/write access and it works ... just works

So I was wondering... how come?

[npap]

Good Evening NiksaVel,
MintDisc is a program that is another of Clem's wonders. It does just that: mounts NTFS and Fat 32 partitions with Read/Write capabilities.

[scorp123]

since I've started messing around with linux, I've been told over and over that we can't write to NTFS, only read... So I was wondering... how come?

The NTFS driver in the kernel itself was unsafe and outdated; most distros shipped with the "read-only" option because of safety.

"MintDisk" -- as far as I understood the mechanism -- uses a different approach:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntfs-3g