[CentOS] ntfs

Sun Dec 5 21:13:51 UTC 2010
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Ritika Garg <ritikagarg25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> CentOS 5.5 is installed in the system. I installed the package
>> kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-3.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>> I mounted Seagate external hard disk. I am able to copy contents from the
>> hard disk to the system but not from the system to the hard disk.
>
> Do you also need the centosplus kernel, which has the NTFS features
> enabled in the linux kernel ".config" file at compilation time?

Just for the record. The centosplus kernel does not have NTFS turned
on. There is a bug in the NTFS code but the upstream vendor would not
fix it because it is not enabled in their kernel:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481495

Therefore it was decided not to enable it in the cplus kernel.
Besides, as already pointed out in this thread, ntfs-3g is better than
the kernel ntfs module functionally and it is actively maintained.

Akemi