ntfs kernel module

[D. Stolte]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2004, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>but, once again, if the FS is mounted read only, how will that page
>>"eventually make it to disk", as you describe it?
> 
> 
> If the page is marked as dirty, it will eventually be flushed to
> disk.  Pages are below the FS layer, so whether the FS is read only or
> read write won't matter at all if the page is marked as dirty.
> 
> Not to mention the fact that the OS could very well think it was
> writing to a different filesystem but, due to memory corruption, ends
> up overwriting bits of the read-only filesystem.
> 

i think this thread is becoming a bit off-topic. memory corruption can
be caused by any kernel driver and is not ntfs specific. many dsitributions
include ntfs and they dont have any weird bugs like that in their bugzilla
reportings. Also, i am using ntfs here and it is working as expected.
Apart from possible legal issues (IANAL) I dont see a valid reason to not
include ntfs in the kernel rpm.

/ds