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Old 20th August 2010
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Read only is perfectly safe. Not so read/write, which is likely to produce corruption of data.

What is important to realize is there is no development on NTFS, so any enhancements from Microsoft in recent years to the underlying file structure is likely not going to be available. If there are problems, file metadata will not be readable.

If networks are used with your Windows workstations, rather than SATA/PATA/SCSI/USB ... then there are many other solutions available, without a custom kernel. Examples: net/samba server and Microsoft Networking, Linux live media and ntfsclone with ssh, Bacula ... etc. Lots of choices.