I can't think of anything I did special other than using force because I hadn't done a Safely Remove device on Windows last time. I plan to try some experimentation again. I had previously successfully copied many gigabytes of files from an NTFS USB hard drive during the same boot without issues. On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > Kevin Krieser <k_krieser at ...> writes: >> I just tried NTFS-3G on a thumbdrive, and I was able to create a file >> that differed only by case from another. Then something got >> corrupted. > > Could you please elaborate what you did and what kind of corruption > happened? > > We are doing very exhaustive testing (http://ntfs-3g.org/ > quality.html) before > all public driver releases and we're not aware of any corruption > problem, nor we > have been reported using the latest driver, version 1.2412. > > The only issue I can imagine is if the thumbdrive wasn't properly > unmounted > before removal. This can cause I/O errors like described at > http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#ioerror > > NTFS is case preserving and case sensitive in the NTFS POSIX > filename space what > NTFS-3G uses. This may confuse some Windows applications but > unfortunately there > isn't anything we could do about it, because exactly the same thing > happen when > one uses the Microsoft NTFS driver to do the same. No difference. > More at > http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#posixfilenames1 > > Regards, Szaka > > -- > NTFS-3G Lead Developer: http://ntfs-3g.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos