Captive-NTFS and LUFS with kernel >= 2.6.8

DaneM · 01-06-2005, 04:02 AM

Hello everybody. I've been trying to solve this problem on my own for a while and I haven't found any satisfactory solutions.

I'm currently using Slackware 10 with kernel 2.6.7-ck6. (Downloaded from kernel.org and patched.) I've downloaded and patched to my liking kernel 2.6.10 but I can't get captive-ntfs to work with it. The same goes for kernels 2.6.8 and 2.6.9. The simple answer would be that LUFS is no longer supported and thus the later kernels don't work with it, and since captive requires LUFS it won't work either. This is not satisfactory or entirely true from what I've gathered.

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ says that while LUFS is kind-of buggered there's an alternative method that's supposed to get captive-ntfs working again. I just can't figure it out. Does anybody know how to do this? I would REALLY like to move on to the latest-and-greatest kernels and still have read/write access to my NTFS partitions.

Thanks for your help!

--Dane

DaneM · 01-10-2005, 04:18 PM

Has anybody else had this problem or is it unique to my system? And, of course, if anybody knows how to fix it I'd be grateful for some advice.

DaneM · 01-18-2005, 05:03 AM

*bump*

keefaz · 01-23-2005, 03:31 AM

try this link :
http://www.jankratochvil.net/piperma...er/000645.html

DaneM · 01-26-2005, 02:45 PM

Thanks for the link, Keefaz! I'm not sure exactly what to do with all that diff stuff. Did he get an old version of signal.c from somewhere or rewrite it or what? Sorry if I'm being dense! :-)

DaneM · 02-02-2005, 03:21 PM

Does anybody have any idea what to do with this bit of code? The link above says something about patching the kernel, I don't understand how to use this text to do it.

Quote:

Looking into the kernel sources revealed that kill_proc_info was
exported in kernels prior to 2.6.10, but isn't any more. I didn't
investigate further why this change was made but instead made the
following change which did the job:

================== snip
diff -Naur kernel/signal.c.orig kernel/signal.c
--- kernel/signal.c.orig 2004-12-28 13:23:06.000000000 +0100
+++ kernel/signal.c 2004-12-28 13:24:59.000000000 +0100
@@ -1939,6 +1939,7 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sigprocmask);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_all_signals);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unblock_all_signals);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kill_proc_info); /* hcz */

/*

Thanks for your help.

--Dane