Re: NTFS support in RH9

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The code for the driver is developed through reverse-engineering. There is concern for whether MS will be able to take legal action, so Red Hat distributes the source but not a binary.

m jones wrote:
i will do that, if ntfs-linux project doesn't release it before i get that far...

but now i have another question... so the code to make the module is distributed, but not a precompiled module? i know this might not have anything to do with red hat 9, but i don't understand the difference.

On Thursday 03 April 2003 11:42, Justin Georgeson filled my inbox with:

As others have pointed out, the NTFS read-only module won't be included
until the legal status of the driver changes. That said,

up2date -f kernel-source
make menuconfig
load the right file form /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/
enable the read-only module
save & exit
edit Makefile to remove the "custom" from the version string
make dep && make clean
make _mod_fs (I can't find a smaller target than this)
mkdir /lib/modules/<version>/kernel/fs/ntfs/
cp /usr/src/linux-2.4/fs/ntfs/ntfs.o \
   /lib/modules/<version>/kernel/fs/ntfs
depmod -a
mount -t ntfs /dev/<partition> <mount_point>

m jones wrote:

hello all,

has anyone with an NTFS partition on their machine had any problems with
shrike? is NTFS support in the stock RH kernel? i simply would like to
continue to have read-only access to the win2k partition after i upgrade.

thank you for your time.



-- ; Justin Georgeson ; http://www.lopht.net ; mailto:jgeorgeson@xxxxxxxxx ; "Free the mallocs, delete the news"





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