Linux & NTFS - How far are we with compatibility?

[Themer]

I know that for some time now there has been the ability to write to safely NTFS, and I have had no problems doing so with large amounts of data. One thing that I haven't really been following is how well Linux is able to work with NTFS in compressed mode. It seems to me a while ago, and a long while, so this may be old news, but a while ago whenever you tried to write, or even read from compressed NTFS, you would get random, and changing, IO errors and many other problems. Has this been fixed yet, or are we still at a loss to how they do it?

[ryokimball]

You know, I hear plenty of things against working back and forth with Linux and NTFS, but I have yet (thankfully) to run into any problems. I have a 320 GB SATA drive with NTFS on it, filled with music and some movies. I probably will put ext3 on the next drive I get (500 GB SATA) out of paranoia, but at this time I haven't had much if any problems that I'd notice.

[Themer]

Same here, but I mean when using compressed mode - last time I tried, it have read errors, tons of trouble writing large amounts of data, and it seems even now it can't differentiate between "size" and "size on disk" as windows does...