ntfs support

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Wed Apr 28 12:29:39 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 07:29, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 04:04, Ted Kaczmarek wrote:
> >                                                                              
> > Why does it have to be compiled into the kernel?
> > Is it no longer loadable as a module?
> > 
> > Ted
> 
> You can build it as a module, and unless RH/Fedora has actually removed
> the source from their kernel tree, there shouldn't even be a need to
> reboot. Heck - even if they did remove the nfts source, you probably
> don't even need to reboot to build and load it.
> 
> Well - it was still a module in the 2.6.3 vanilla anyway - so I highly
> doubt it isn't a module now.

Not a supplied module now:

[root at dyne modules]# find /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.327 -name "ntfs*" -ls
1573753    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Apr 26 17:28 /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.327/build/include/config/ntfs
1557968    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Apr 26 17:28 /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.327/build/fs/ntfs
[root at dyne modules]# ll /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.327/build/include/config/ntfs
total 4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 22 Apr 18 04:48 fs.h
[root at dyne modules]# ll /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.327/build/fs/ntfs
total 4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 371 Apr 18 05:11 Makefile

But apparently still in the kernel sources:

# ll /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.327/fs/ntfs
total 608
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 53506 Apr 18 04:47 aops.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 56674 Apr  3 22:38 attrib.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3795 Apr  3 22:36 attrib.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 42950 Apr  3 22:36 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 28917 Apr 18 04:47 compress.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  5277 Apr  3 22:38 debug.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2524 Apr  3 22:37 debug.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 47649 Apr  3 22:36 dir.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1638 Apr  3 22:37 dir.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1849 Apr  3 22:37 endian.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2733 Apr  3 22:38 file.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 62908 Apr  3 22:38 inode.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  9247 Apr  3 22:37 inode.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 93770 Apr  3 22:37 layout.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   371 Apr  3 22:37 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2073 Apr  3 22:36 malloc.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 14650 Apr  3 22:37 mft.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1975 Apr  3 22:36 mft.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  7181 Apr  3 22:37 mst.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 10481 Apr  3 22:37 namei.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  7408 Apr  3 22:36 ntfs.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 58912 Apr  3 22:37 super.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2571 Apr  3 22:36 sysctl.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1394 Apr  3 22:36 sysctl.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2920 Apr  3 22:37 time.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2641 Apr  3 22:37 types.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 11995 Apr  3 22:37 unistr.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4035 Apr  3 22:36 upcase.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  5367 Apr  3 22:36 volume.h







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