[20813] in Athena Bugs
Re: NTFS support for Linux-Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Sep 26 01:27:30 2002
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: David A McIlroy <davidmac@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Date: 26 Sep 2002 01:27:26 -0400
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On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 23:59, David A McIlroy wrote:
> I've found that ntfs support is not included in the stock kernel. Which
> makes trying to get at my data on my old hard drive difficult. Is there
> any intention to add support (even as a loadable module) for ntfs? I
> would strongly encourage adding support.
As much as it would be nice, I'm thinking no. It's a bad sign that Red
Hat doesn't provide this support natively, and it's already enough of a
nightmare providing kernel modules for OpenAFS. (Unlike Solaris and
other operating systems, Linux does not provide a consistent ABI for
modules across kernel versions, kernel configuration, or architecture,
so a site like us has to build modules five different ways and keep them
in sync with the kernel updates.)
Of course, nothing stops you from building a kernel module yourself for
your machine. (You'd have to rebuild it every time you take an Athena
update which updates the kernel, of course.)
