Quoting Pablo Manalastas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Does RH8.0 provide read/write NTFS support?
1. RH 8.0's kernel doesn't provide any NTFS supprot at all.
Please see: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html
2. Linux NTFS write-mode support is dangerous to filesystem integrity.
To explain: There have been two NTFS drivers. The first one could be
manually edited before compilation to enable R/W support -- which was
intended to underline to you that you were doing something dangerous.
If you do that, take care to re-check volume integrity in NT Disk
Administrator or wherever one does that, every time you use the
partition in R/W mode under Linux. You run a significant risk of data
corruption. (Note that the only such problems were reported under heavy
load and/or in SMP mode.)
In order to eliminate some inherent problems of the older driver,
especially the fact that it didn't properly support SMP operation, it
was discarded and written from scratch. The new driver is quite a bit
more reliable -- but initially omits R/W code entirely.
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