[ale] NTFS support for Linux

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Jerry Z. Yu wrote:

> 	I'd complain to RedHat so that they can put back the r/o support
> for NTFS.  I can't see why they'd not since their distribution has a quite 
> bloated kernel module list anyway (it has fat/vfat). It is great that one 
> can do it on one's own. But, it'd greater that someone else can do it for 
> you, do it once for millions of you.

Red Hat can't enable it because it causes data corruption even r/o under
some circumstances.  That's the same reason RH doesn't support Reiser or 
JFS yet either....

later,
chris


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