begin  Leonardo Canducci quote on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:42:06AM +0100:
> heard that it's not advisable to write on a ntfs partiton from linux -
> that's annoying enough - but if there are problems even reading I would
> switch to fat.

Only sort of.  Plain old open, read, close work well enough.
mmap() is a lot harder to get right.

> just the last question: why xmms can read from ntfs? it's not using
> mmap?

You could use strace again to verify, but yeah, that would be my guess.

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