On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:57 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg > <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: >> >> this is OT, but do you know you can get NTFS RW support by simply installing >> fuse-ntfs-3g from rpmforge? Fuse (from rf) gets rebuilt for new kernels by >> dkms, so it's painless on kernel updates. > > Yes, but the point isn't to make it painless, it's to make sure I can > keep in practice. I've had jobs over the last 9 years doing Linux > kernel development/analysis, and at one point I was so out of practice > I had to relearn how to build the kernel all over again. /That/ was > painful. > > BTW, since you mentioned it, which is better - the RH NTFS module(s) > or the fuse implementation? Maybe I'll look for another excuse to > build a modified kernel if the latter.... Well... if you go for the fuse/dkms route, you will lose the chance to build the module upon kernel update. :-) Akemi