[ANN] NTFS 2.0.6a for Linux 2.4.18

[ANN] NTFS 2.0.6a for Linux 2.4.18

[Pawel Kot]

Hi all,

With much help from Anton, I backported the NTFS-TNG driver to 2.4.x Linux
kernel series. If you are afraid of running 2.5.x kernel, but you would
like to get all benefits of the new NTFS driver use this one.

It should have all features the driver for 2.5.x has -- only 2.5.x series
specific code was removed/altered.

The driver itself really looks to be stable, it survived all the run
tests, but if you have any problems running it, please, contact me or
Anton.

You can download the patch for the vanilla 2.4.18 from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linux-ntfs/linux-2.4.18-ntfs-2.0.6a.patch
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linux-ntfs/linux-2.4.18-ntfs-2.0.6a.patch.gz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linux-ntfs/linux-2.4.18-ntfs-2.0.6a.patch.bz2

I plan also to sync the patch with the 2.4.19pre releases but it may take
some time.

pkot
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Re: [ANN] NTFS 2.0.6a for Linux 2.4.18

[Erik Andersen]

On Tue May 07, 2002 at 12:27:17AM +0200, Pawel Kot wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> With much help from Anton, I backported the NTFS-TNG driver to 2.4.x Linux
> kernel series. If you are afraid of running 2.5.x kernel, but you would
> like to get all benefits of the new NTFS driver use this one.
> 
> It should have all features the driver for 2.5.x has -- only 2.5.x series
> specific code was removed/altered.
> 
> The driver itself really looks to be stable, it survived all the run
> tests, but if you have any problems running it, please, contact me or
> Anton.

Excellent work.  As I recall, the 2.5.x version is read-only.  Does 
this version have write support, or is it read only with this patch?

 -Erik

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Re: [ANN] NTFS 2.0.6a for Linux 2.4.18

[Pawel Kot]

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Tue May 07, 2002 at 12:27:17AM +0200, Pawel Kot wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > With much help from Anton, I backported the NTFS-TNG driver to 2.4.x Linux
> > kernel series. If you are afraid of running 2.5.x kernel, but you would
> > like to get all benefits of the new NTFS driver use this one.
> >
> > It should have all features the driver for 2.5.x has -- only 2.5.x series
> > specific code was removed/altered.
> >
> > The driver itself really looks to be stable, it survived all the run
> > tests, but if you have any problems running it, please, contact me or
> > Anton.
>
> Excellent work.

Thanks :-)

> As I recall, the 2.5.x version is read-only.  Does
> this version have write support, or is it read only with this patch?

Nope. This is also read-only support. According to Anton, it will take a
lot of time to have write support for NTFS...

pkot
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