NTFS Support under rh8
 

I know all about the patent issues with rh but i dont understand why when running mandrake 9 i had complete control of the ntfs drive no problems read and write, and the redhat ntfs drivers are so stuffed ie no write unless u dont value your data...
Can anyone shed some light?

You can really write to NTFS safely with Mandrake 9??

'coz write support for ntfs is still experimental.

Re: NTFS Support under rh8
 

Well, if you're curious enough grab the
RH and Mandy Kernel sources and compare
the branch of the directory tree with the ntfs
support in it :)

It [safe write support] can only be there if MDK
coded it, it's certainly still not recommended in the
Stock Kernel 2.4.21-rc1


Cheers,
Tink

well when running mandrake 9 it automounts your other drives and it worked flawlessly... wether mandrake is using the "experimental" ntfs driver i dont know but there was no warning and everything i wrote to the ntfs drive from mandrake worked, i was just curious if it was the same driver and how dangerous it really is to use the rh one..?

Am i right then in thinking it is not safe to write ntfs under any linux distro?

I can tell you from my experience that Mandy screwed up my C:; it was 8.x and said that it supports ntfs. I ended up loding my valuable data. Point to note is that it worked 'flawlessly' for a couple of days :-)

Hope that helps...

ok well thanx for your help guys, seems ill have to live with a vfat shared drive... ughh :)

Hello,

By default Mdk doesn't turn on NTFS write (my installation is 9.1) and u have to recompile the kernel with it. Just checked the config file. I have an NTFS partition and one vfat, which I use to keep common data between Linux and XP.

Cheers,
Senthil