"Linux has had NTFS support for many years now, but as a reverse engineered filesystem, progress hasn't exactly been fast.
"Currently, the original Linux-NTFS project's driver is included in all 2.6 kernels, and is extremely fast and reliable--if all you want to do is read your NTFS partitions.
"Write support is available, but it comes with a big fat warning in the kernel that relying on its operation would be a very bad thing indeed..."
