Hi, Philip Amadeo Saeli schrieb:
Could someone please give me some pointers to more info on this. I've googled for "NTFS-G3" and only came up with two postings (one in "web" (Vietnamese), and one in "groups" (Chinese)), neither of which I can read. Also, a search of the linux-ntfs.org site, including its Wiki and forums didn't turn up anything I recognized as relevent.
The download link http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfs-3g-20070714-BETA.tgz is everything that exists right now. It contains the software, a README file with installation instructions (trivial) and the known limitations. There is not much more documentation about it right now. The linux-ntfs.org guys are very busy people, they just don't have the time to document their knowledge and their progress (which is one of the reasons why there are so many rumours and not facts about the NTFS situation on Linux being spread). You can find a very short announcement on linux-ntfs.org in the "Project updates" section and a short mailing list discussion at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=23836054&forum_id=2697 To summarize it briefly: - It's an enhanced fork of the "ntfsmount" implementation (SUSE distributes this in the "ntfsprogs-fuse" package) - It's currently a fork, but will probably be merged back into the regular ntfsprogs release once it is considered ready - It's not a kernel module, but implemented in user-space using FUSE - It still has some limitations, but in these cases it will just refuse the operation instead of trashing the filesystem - Since it's not an external kernel module, installing it is as simple as "./configure; make; make install", and this will even survive kernel updates - Backup your data before using it. Andreas Hanke --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org