Tim:

HMMMMM.

Windows NT ====> NTFS4
Windows 2000 ==> NTFS5

The "ntfs.o" Linux kernel module has very good support for NTFS4.  I was not
aware of support for NTFS5 but I suppose people must have been working on it.
I'm writing this because I've had lots of experience (successful) using NTFS4
under Linux, even with read-write, but I would think that there would be lots
of Bad Problems with NTFS5 support on Linux.

I haven't done any research on this recently, though, so maybe they have it
working now.

Suffice it to say that it's likely that NTFS5 support under Linux would be 
problematic until more time elapses and the open-source developers have time
to get it fully debugged.

Hope this helps.

JimO

> I started using Linux a couple of months ago.  I didn't want to stop using 
> Win2k right away so I installed Linux (Redhat 7.2) on seperate physical drive 
> and used the NT boot loader to dual boot. I wanted to be able to access my 
> NTFS, so I soon noticed that Redhat's default kernel doesn't include NTFS 
> support. I recompiled the kernel to include NTFS read only access. The first 
> time I mounted the NTFS drive I was able to browse it using "ls" and "cd". 
> When I tried to "ls" a folder that was set up as a share on my Win2k network 
> the computer locked up as tight as a drum and I had to a cold boot. Anyone 
> else have this experience? It probably has something to do with the share 
> rights in Win2k? But I thought someone could shed some light on this. I heard 
> that Redhat's kernels are highly patched and may have some incompatibilities 
> with NTFS. (No wonder they don't include the NTFS module by default). I 
> earlier had Mandrake 7.0 on my computer and could browse NTFS drives without 
> any problems. If this newbie question is off topic, please point me to where 
> I might find more info about this.

> Tim Harris

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