On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 17:54 -0400, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > tags 566356 wontfix > severity 566356 wishlist > retitle 566356 Enable CONFIG_NTFS_RW > thanks > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 05:36:11AM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote: > > reassign 566356 linux-2.6 > > -- > > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:03:14PM +0530, gnath wrote: > > > using external hard disk formatted with ntfs on usb port gives > > > read only mode. Can use or play with files on EHD without write/create. > > > > > > use additional flashdisk/pendrive with vfat on another usb port with rw > > > permission > > > > The nearly certain situation here is that CONFIG_NTFS_RW is not set in the > > kernel > > config, resulting in the kernel doing read-only mode when mounting an NTFS > > filesystem, > > regardless of where it comes from. > > The R/W NTFS support in the kernel is not suitable for general use, > marking as wontfix.
However, it is currently enabled even though it's useless. We should really *disable* it and fix the filesystem to refuse read- write mounts (currently it quietly changes them to read-only). The ntfs-3g package provides a non-kernel (FUSE) implementation of NTFS with full read-write support. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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