[CentOS] Centos 5 will have full NTFS read write support?

[Justin Cataldo]

Don't you need ntfs3g to be able to write to an NTFS partition?

JC

On 4/3/07, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
>
> "Josep M." <mylinuxmaillists-2006 at 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 at 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 at shutdown ~]$grep -i ntfs /boot/config-2.6.18-8.el5
> > # CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
> > [angenenr at shutdown ~]$
> 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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