> > >Is read access safe ?
> >
> > Of course read-only is safe. As long as you mount the partition READ-ONLY
> > nothing can happen to it in any way, your NTFS data is at least safe.
>
> Isn't it still theoretcially possible for the driver to send commands to the
> disk controller that cause data to become overwritten, even when it's just
> supposed to read that data?
AFAICS, ext3 is happy to write to read-only mounted partition. So
question was not completely stupid.
Pavel
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