From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 24 May 2001 06:46:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 May 2001 06:46:13 -0400 Received: from draco.cus.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.18]:52126 "EHLO draco.cus.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 May 2001 06:46:03 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010524114546.00aadd30@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:46:29 +0100 To: Blesson Paul From: Anton Altaparmakov Subject: Re: How to add NTFS support Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At 09:20 24/05/2001, Blesson Paul wrote: > I have redhat6.2. I have to add ntfs support to it(defaultly > it do not have). I know to do it by changing the configuration and > recompiling the whole kernel. I want to know , is there any method to >register ntfs file system without recompiling the whole kernel >No, it is not possible to not recompile the kernel if NTFS was configured. I meant "was not configured"... Anton You might see some very strange effects if you try... What is your problem? Just recompile the kernel. Remember NTFS should be used read-only as write support is broken. I have a much improved NTFS driver but my Sourceforge linux-NTFS CVS is down (for a week now!) so I can't release it at the moment. )-: Anton -- "Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://sf.net/projects/linux-ntfs/ ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/