Re: LNX-BBC with Compact Flash

Dave Barry <[email protected]> writes:

> Quothe Paul Gray <[email protected]>, on Sun, Jul 13, 2003:
>> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Seth David Schoen wrote:
>> 
>> > Slaughter, Dale writes:
>> >
>> > Yes, it's solely a matter of our NTFS driver, which lacks write
>> > support.  Linux should get NTFS write support in the future, but
>> > currently you will not be able to write to any NTFS volume on any
>> 
>> I was under the impression that we *had* NTFS write support:
>> 
>> CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
>> CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y
>> CONFIG_HPFS_FS=m
>> (from HEAD's config-2.4.19bbc-r1)
>> 
>
> Well, if we do have it, you may need to do:
>
> mount -t ntfs /dev/hde1 /mnt/mntpoint
>
> and then:
>
> mount -o remount,rw /dev/hde1
>
> to enable rw support.

To my knowledge, the NTFS write supprt that is in 2.4 is dangerously
broken, and marked as such.  Even the bleeding-edge NFTS driver has
only limited write support; for example, writes that alter the lengh
of a file are not allowed.