Hi Mario
When you do make menuconfig for linux kernel compilation, you can select
drivers as built in or modules. So you can select NTFS file system as
modules. Then you can just say make modules;make modules_install.
Gurus correct me....
W2K!!! I don't know a damn about it except all of it's
shortcomings.... :-)) I didn't find it necessary. I have yet to see an
installation of w2k. So that's a technology on moon for me.
But yes, M$ is famous for changing NTFS specification and making SAMBA
team work hard. What you say is very correct...
Anyway even read only NTFS is not as stable as ext2. I had to reboot when
a long find on NTFS partition froze entire system. Very rare incident
indeed but I saw it.
Bye
Shridhar
P.S. NTFS module comes precompiled with Mandrake. So Sweet... :-))
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Mario da Costa wrote:
> Hello Shridhar,
> you must be correct. I had ignored the warning and opted for the read
> write pointer. I have never compiled the kernel, but i want to give it a
> shot. i was not aware that you could compile just a module. how is this
> done. Is there a place where I can RTFM ? Another word of caution
> though, i read somewhere that the w2k NTFS differs from the winNT4.0
> NTFS. Keeping a 300MB FAT for communicating with NT is a good idea.
>
> Regards,
> mario
>
> p.s. after the unfortunate incident where I thrashed my NTFS partition,
> my sys admin and my boss, decided that i would have to delete my LINUX
> and work only with win NT :o( I wouldn't want any one else to suffer a
> similar fate.
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