[20836] in Athena Bugs
Re: NTFS support for Linux-Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Fri Sep 27 17:12:07 2002
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:07:57 -0400
Message-Id: <200209272107.RAA12839@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: davidmac@mit.edu
CC: ghudson@mit.edu, bugs@mit.edu
>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.
The reason, according to Red Hat, is legal, not technical. The Red Hat
kernel people claim to be happy to add the support as soon as they get
the goahead from their lawyers. The lawyers apparently see potential
patent infringement issues and don't want to deal.
The ntfs driver in the 2.4.18 kernel source will work OK if you compile
it by hand. (No special magic is required; explicit directions, if you need
them, are at <http://www.getlinuxonline.com/omp/distro/RedHat/ompntfs2.html>.)
If you want something that's actually robust and fast and will cope with
an SMP system, get a copy of the 2.4 backport of the NTFS 2.x code from
<http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html>.
