Re: Problem for RH6.0 with PC164

[Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc <achapkis mail dls net>]

  Is there a big difference in supporting NTFS4 and supporting NTFS5? I mean
does this support (well, the read part of it) apply to both or just NTFS4?

>Windows NT NTFS support (read only)
>CONFIG_NTFS_FS
>  NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT. Say Y if you want
>  to get read access to files on NTFS partitions of your hard drive.
>  The Linux NTFS driver supports most of the mount options of the VFAT
>  driver, see Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt. Saying Y here will
>  give you read-only access to NTFS partitions.
>
>  This code is also available as a module ( = code which can be
>  inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want).
>  The module will be called ntfs.o. If you want to compile it as a
>  module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt.
>
>NTFS read-write support (experimental)
>CONFIG_NTFS_RW
>  If you say Y here, you will (hopefully) be able to write to NTFS
>  file systems as well as read from them. The read-write support
>  in NTFS is far from being complete and is not well tested. If you
>  enable this, back up your NTFS volume first since it may get
>  damaged.
>
>  If unsure, say N.
>
>It is hard to write a reliable support for something not documented.
>


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