[KLUG Members] NTFS

[Adam Williams]

> Could you point me to where you go to enable it. I find all over the web
> it's expirimental. But I can't seem to find a way to turn it on!

It needs to be enabled in the kernel module, and in order to reach the
option to enable it you need to enable expiremental feature support in
the kernel first.

Or take a gander at -
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
or - http://www.ntfs-linux.com/index.htm (but this one seems dead).

Note that I used NTFS-write enabled Linux to hack the SAM on a Win2000
server (Oh, now that was funny easy... but another story).  Doing any
significant writes into NTFS can trash your data, filesystem, Windows
installation.  Or should I say it will expedite the trashing of your
Windows installation.  Better to r/w the ext2/3 or XFS filesystem from
Windows than r/w the NTFS from Linux.  

Writing to NTFS under Linux: "That way lies scary carnival death."

You've been warned.

> >> Is there any way to write to an Windows2000/XP NTFS partition?
> >> This would be tremendously helpful.
> > There is experimental NTFS write support, but as I recall it has to be
> > explicity enabled somehow.  I've done it, once, but I don't recall the
> > procedure.
> > One of the problems is is that NTFS relies upon a SAM in order to
> > enforce the security model.  Linux don't go no stinkin' SAM - so when
> > you do enable writes it has all the security features of a FAT
> > filesystem.