NTFS module

[D. Stolte]

hi

my way to get ntfs read support:
copy the ntfs driver source dir from the kernel source, create a new
makefile so that it can be built as an external module, stuff all that
in a src rpm and built it for each new kernel release. you will have
this special version of the ntfs driver for all your new kernels until
you repeat the procedure from the beginning, of course. thats really
painless.

you can get the ntfs (.src|.i386).rpm from here:
http://mekunet.homelinux.org/linux

/ds


Jason Dravet wrote:
> I am using the latest rawhide.  There is no kernel source code in the
> rawhide directory.  How can I get NTFS read access into my kernel?  Before
> people jump on me and say download it from
> http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html, they are no longer
> maintaining the website.  The last FC3 NTFS module they have posted is for
> 2.6.7-1.478.  The kernel in rawhide is 2.6.8-1.451.  I don't want to
> recompile my whole kernel just for ntfs support.  
> 
> I was able to just compile the NTFS module and load it myself.  I changed
> the .config to include ntfs as a module, then I used the make modules
> SUBDIRS=fs/ntfs command and it compiled the module, I made a directory for
> the ko and copied it there, did a depmod -a and then I could mount my ntfs
> partition.  The kernel changed from using SUBDIRS= to O= and this broke.  So
> how can I compile just the NTFS module without recompiling the whole kernel?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
>