On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 09:34:36AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Johan Hovold reported that removing the legacy ntfs driver broke boot
> for him since his fstab uses the legacy ntfs driver to access firmware
> from the original Windows partition.
>
> Use ntfs3 as an alias for legacy ntfs if CONFIG_NTFS_FS is selected.
> This is similar to how ext3 is treated.
>
> Fixes: 7ffa8f3d3023 ("fs: Remove NTFS classic")
> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Zf2zPf5TO5oYt3I3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hey,
>
> This is so far compile tested. It would be great if someone could test
> this. @Johan?
This seems to do the trick. Thanks for the quick fix.
Tested-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Do we want to do something about the fact that ntfs mounts may now
become writable as well?
Johan
