NTFS support

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Am Dienstag, den 19.10.2004, 17:30 +1000 schrieb Colin Charles:
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 17:05, Senectus . wrote:
> > I noticed that the FC3 T3 doesn't have NTFS support in the kernel..
> > I'm a Gentoo user in past so a kernel recompile doesn't phase me
> > much.. I was just wondering if there was any other considerations I
> > need be aware of for doing a recompile with ntfs support?
> 
> Nope. Re-compiling the kernel is very similar to doing it elsewhere.
> Using an initrd is useful, otherwise, doesn't seem like anything'll be
> different

Recompiling the kernel to get the ntfs module is a bit heavy... 

> http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html might also be helpful

For those interested there is an alternate ntfs-Package in testing at
rpm.livna.org since ~2 weeks. An updated SRPM is in the works that
easily should rebuild with rawhide kernels. See:

http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285

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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>