On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Ron Loftin reloftin@twcny.rr.com wrote:
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
Looks like you are doing everything just fine. Perhaps, we should move this conversation to the ELRepo mailing list because this is now all about kmod-ntfs and not all members of the ELRepo team are reading this mailing list on a regular basis.
http://elrepo.org/tiki/MailingLists
What do you think?
I think that I just signed up for the ELRepo mailing list. I will post my last message there ( unless you think more of the background is useful ) and see what turns up.
Adding the link to your original post of this thread will help:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-November/084896.html
This is just a followup post for those who would like to know how this conversation developed. The details are in this ELRepo mailing list thread:
http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2009-November/000102.html
In short, the write support offered by the kernel (hence kmod-ntfs) is quite limited. Alan Bartlett pointed to this section of the kernel Kconfig file:
"The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot be written to."
Conclusion is, if you need to write to NTFS, you should use ntfs-3g.
Akemi