[elrepo] [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

[Ron Loftin]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 15:30 +0000, Alan Bartlett wrote:
> 2009/11/2 Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org>:
> > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
> >> 2009/11/2 Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org>:
> >
> >>> Yes, I did test it as noted in my earlier response and I was not able
> >>> to write to the NTFS partition.
> >>
> >> Yes, I noticed that. I was wondering if you could test the write
> >> functionality within the limits as defined in the second paragraph of
> >> my second quote from the kernel Kconfig file.
> >
> > Ah, sorry, I totally missed that section. I will test it as soon as I
> > get a chance.  But judging from what is said, that "write" function is
> > almost useless.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> I assume that is how it always was with NTFS_RW configured in the
> CentOS-Plus kernel?
> 
> Perhaps I should add the following to the kmod-ntfs description in the
> ELRepo wiki --
> 
> "This module is configured for partial, but safe, write support.
> 
> The only operation permitted is the overwriting of existing files,
> without changing the file length.
> No file or directory creation, deletion or renaming is possible."
> 
> Any comments, please?

Well, as a poor, dumb user ( for this functionality ) it seems to me
that this may well be more trouble than it's worth.  My gut reaction is
that there is a significant fraction of the people interested in this
that would find it frustrating that write-support for NTFS is enabled,
but restricted in this way.  From the perspective of my limited needs,
it may be better to limit this module to read-only until full write
support can be done safely, and let the people who need/want write
support immediately stick to the ntfs-3g/dkms solution.

I emphasize that this is just my $0.02 (US) worth of my own opinion.

> 
> Alan.
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