ntfs support

[Ted Kaczmarek]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 11:04 +0300, shmuel siegel wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:44, Anthony Richardella wrote:
> > Just wondering if there are any plans for adding support for
> > mounting ntfs filesystems. 
> > 
> > Anthony
> > 
> 
> The kernel supports it but Redhat disables it. It is easy to put it back
> in by rebuilding the kernel. Install the kernel-source and follow the
> instructions in the README
> 
> specifically these lines   To configure and build the kernel use:
>    cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.N
>    make O=/home/name/build/kernel menuconfig
>    make O=/home/name/build/kernel
>    sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel modules_install install
>                                                                                 
>    Please note: If the 'O=output/dir' option is used then it must be
>    used for all invocations of make.
> 
> when you run the make menuconfig you will get an option to include ntfs
> support. If you are using grub it will install the custom kernel. Just
> reboot and you have ntfs support.
>                                                                                 
Why does it have to be compiled into the kernel?
Is it no longer loadable as a module?

Ted