"Josep M." mylinuxmaillists-2006@yahoo.es wrote:
Hello Ralph.
I was searching and was reading that after kernel 2.6.15 all kernels have full NTFS read/write support,(RHEL5 is 2.6.18) so, maybe I will have to rebuild this, I hope Redhat do not stripped this from kernel sources.
Josep
Ralph Angenendt ra+centos@br-online.de escribió: Josep M. wrote:
Hello. I have Centos 4.4 with the NTFS read-only driver from http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/135/71/ I would like know if someone who installed this can test if Centos 5 can read/write NTFS,.
Not out of the box:
[angenenr@shutdown ~]$grep -i ntfs /boot/config-2.6.18-8.el5 # CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set [angenenr@shutdown ~]$
It wouldn't surprise me if NTFS was encumbered by some sort of Micro$oft intellectual property claim. This would be sufficient to cause Red Hat to not build their kernel with it even if all it takes to make it work is to enable the feature in the kernel build.
See one of the many flame wars over MP3 or some other IP encumbered technology as to why RH won't include it (and risk getting sued).
Cheers, Dave
Don't you need ntfs3g to be able to write to an NTFS partition?
JC
On 4/3/07, David G. Miller dave@davenjudy.org wrote:
"Josep M." mylinuxmaillists-2006@yahoo.es wrote:
Hello Ralph.
I was searching and was reading that after kernel 2.6.15 all kernels
have full NTFS read/write support,(RHEL5 is 2.6.18) so, maybe I will have to rebuild this, I hope Redhat do not stripped this from kernel sources.
Josep
Ralph Angenendt ra+centos@br-online.de escribió: Josep M. wrote:
Hello. I have Centos 4.4 with the NTFS read-only
driver from
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/135/71/ I would like know if someone who installed this can test if Centos
5 can
read/write NTFS,.
Not out of the box:
[angenenr@shutdown ~]$grep -i ntfs /boot/config-2.6.18-8.el5 # CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set [angenenr@shutdown ~]$
It wouldn't surprise me if NTFS was encumbered by some sort of Micro$oft intellectual property claim. This would be sufficient to cause Red Hat to not build their kernel with it even if all it takes to make it work is to enable the feature in the kernel build.
See one of the many flame wars over MP3 or some other IP encumbered technology as to why RH won't include it (and risk getting sued).
Cheers, Dave
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Justin Cataldo wrote:
Don't you need ntfs3g to be able to write to an NTFS partition?
No...but only ntfs3g is safe for writing.
The ntfs driver does support writing but what it supports is very limited or in effect, no writing really.
David G. Miller wrote:
It wouldn't surprise me if NTFS was encumbered by some sort of Micro$oft intellectual property claim. This would be sufficient to cause Red Hat to not build their kernel with it even if all it takes to make it work is to enable the feature in the kernel build.
Debian's as paranoid as anyone, but it ships NTFS.
Additionally, I've never heard any claims regarding HPFS, and as I came to Linux from OS/2, I think I'd remember such. And, RH has never, to my recollection, shipped HPFS either.
See one of the many flame wars over MP3 or some other IP encumbered technology as to why RH won't include it (and risk getting sued).
Cheers, Dave
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