[ale] NTFS support for Linux

[Geoffrey]

Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Jerry Z. Yu wrote:
> 
> 
>>	I'd complain to RedHat so that they can put back the r/o support
>>for NTFS.  I can't see why they'd not since their distribution has a quite 
>>bloated kernel module list anyway (it has fat/vfat). It is great that one 
>>can do it on one's own. But, it'd greater that someone else can do it for 
>>you, do it once for millions of you.
>>
> 
> Red Hat can't enable it because it causes data corruption even r/o under
> some circumstances.  That's the same reason RH doesn't support Reiser or 
> JFS yet either....

References?  I've never seen/heard of corruption of NTFS under r/o 
Linux.  I used to use it quite extensively a while back, never had a 
problem.

> 
> later,
> chris
> 
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