Mounting NTFS file system.

[Aaron Matteson]

Joshua Levitsky became daring and sent these 0.8K bytes,
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wayne Steenburg" <w.steenburg at myactv.net>
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 12:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Mounting NTFS file system.
> 
> 
> > The Fedora kernel does not support NTFS out of the box for legal
> > reasons.  You can find a kernel module at
> > http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net
> 
> For legal reasons? It's a filesystem like any other. I used to use NTFS on
> Red Hat 6.x a few years ago. Is it just the Fedora kernels to have it ripped
> out or is it not a feature of the 2.4 / 2.6 kernels?

Yes, it is a filesystem but not like any other. It is patented and
Microsoft's IP. All built in support would do is provide another
potential legal bullseye. If you have not guessed already, Red Hat and
now Fedora is about staying out of the line of fire. So no non-free and
private IP will be included.

Yes it is a tad annoying but you have a link to add support yourself, so
i suggest getting past this and following through.

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