[elrepo] [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Ron Loftin <reloftin at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 15:30 +0000, Alan Bartlett wrote:

>> 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 think that we should leave the thing the way it is now (so that we
do not have to spend more time on this). But we want to give plenty of
information not only in the ELRepo's page but also in the CentOS wiki:

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS

Alan, may I count on you? Please?

Akemi