CentOS - Apr 2007 - Centos 5 will have full NTFS read write support?

Hello.

I have Centos 4.4 with the NTFS read-only driver from
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/135/71/

I would like know if someone who installed this can test if Centos 5 can
read/write NTFS,.

Thanks
Josep


 		
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Josep M. wrote:
> 
>    Hello.
>    I   have   Centos   4.4   with   the   NTFS   read-only   driver  from
>    http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/135/71/
>    I would like know if someone who installed this can test if Centos 5 can
>    read/write NTFS,.
Not out of the box:

[angenenr at shutdown ~]$grep -i ntfs /boot/config-2.6.18-8.el5
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
[angenenr at shutdown ~]$

Ralph
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"Josep M." <mylinuxmaillists-2006 at yahoo.es> wrote:
> Hello Ralph.
>
> I was searching and was reading that after kernel 2.6.15 all kernels have
full NTFS read/write support,(RHEL5 is 2.6.18) so, maybe I will have to rebuild
this, I hope Redhat do not stripped this from kernel sources.
>
> Josep
>
>
> Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> escribi?: Josep M. wrote:
>   
>> > 
>> >    Hello.
>> >    I   have   Centos   4.4   with   the   NTFS   read-only  
driver  from
>> >    http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/135/71/
>> >    I would like know if someone who installed this can test if
Centos 5 can
>> >    read/write NTFS,.
>>     
>
> Not out of the box:
>
> [angenenr at shutdown ~]$grep -i ntfs /boot/config-2.6.18-8.el5
> # CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
> [angenenr at shutdown ~]$
It wouldn't surprise me if NTFS was encumbered by some sort of Micro$oft 
intellectual property claim.  This would be sufficient to cause Red Hat 
to not build their kernel with it even if all it takes to make it work 
is to enable the feature in the kernel build. 

See one of the many flame wars over MP3 or some other IP encumbered 
technology as to why RH won't include it (and risk getting sued).

Cheers,
Dave

-- 
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce

John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> David G. Miller wrote:
>> > It wouldn't surprise me if NTFS was encumbered by some sort of
Micro$oft
>> > intellectual property claim.  This would be sufficient to cause
Red Hat
>> > to not build their kernel with it even if all it takes to make it
work
>> > is to enable the feature in the kernel build.
>>     
>
> Debian's as paranoid as anyone, but it ships NTFS.
>
> Additionally, I've never heard any claims regarding HPFS, and as I came
> to Linux from OS/2, I think I'd remember such. And, RH has never, to my
> recollection, shipped HPFS either.
>   
>> > See one of the many flame wars over MP3 or some other IP
encumbered
>> > technology as to why RH won't include it (and risk getting
sued).
>> > 
>> > Cheers,
>> > Dave
>> > 
>>     
I vaguely recall that IBM wanted to open source HPFS at one time and was 
told by Microsquish that they wouldn't allow it.  Funny that IBM went 
one better and open sourced JFS instead. 

I'm in kind of the same boat as you since I was an OS/2 user before I 
switched to Linux.  I think the HPFS information was from a discussion 
as to why IBM couldn't open source OS/2 as a means of continuing 
support.  Remember, we're talking about the same Microsquish that has 
attempted to patent the FAT file system.  I'd be very surprised if NTFS 
wasn't IP encumbered.  Debian tends to be very paranoid as to technical 
features and stability but they don't have the financial exposure that 
Red Hat has when it comes to infringing IP.

Cheers,
Dave

-- 
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce