[ale] mounting NT partition

[bkruger at mindspring.com (Bob Kruger)]

At 12:49 PM 8/30/99 -0400, you wrote:


>I thought that they were the same thing.  At any rate, the kernel
>reports that ntfs is not supported.  I had thought that ntfs was fully
>supported now, but according to the kernel docs writing is still
>incomplete. Bummer.
>

I did notice that with kernel v2.2.12, NTFS write capability is possible
from the kernel if you enable CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.  It does say that there
are no claims for stability.  But, for the occasional write, it may be
worth a very careful and closely guarded try.

Regards - Bob Kruger