Re: How to add NTFS support

Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cam.ac.uk)
Thu, 24 May 2001 11:46:29 +0100


At 09:20 24/05/2001, Blesson Paul wrote:
> I have redhat6.2. I have to add ntfs support to it(defaultly
> it do not have). I know to do it by changing the configuration and
> recompiling the whole kernel. I want to know , is there any method to
>register ntfs file system without recompiling the whole kernel

>No, it is not possible to not recompile the kernel if NTFS was configured.

I meant "was not configured"...

Anton

You might see some very strange effects if you try... What is your problem?
Just recompile the kernel. Remember NTFS should be used read-only as write
support is broken.

I have a much improved NTFS driver but my Sourceforge linux-NTFS CVS is
down (for a week now!) so I can't release it at the moment. )-:

Anton

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