On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:26:22AM -0500, Jima wrote:

>  But from pure source!  The kernel-source RedHat provides has a broken 
> NTFS module.  Attempting any I/O (including a directory listing) on the 
> NTFS volume will result in a hard system lock.  I learned this the 
> annoying way this week.  I didn't feel like compiling a kernel *again*, so 
> I just did a quick Mandrake install on a spare drive and that worked fine.
>  In this case I was attempting to recover data from a hosed NTFS drive.  
> It wouldn't boot, another Win2K box couldn't read it (said the drive was 
> unformatted -- uh-oh!), but linux-ntfs got the data back.
> 
>  URL explaining the RedHat/NTFS problem:
> 
> http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/index.html#3.13

If you didn't run old redhat versions, and refuse to upgrade, you 
wouldn't have these problems.

"apt-get dist-upgrade" would have been a lot faster than installing mandrake,
and spreading FUD (even with a url that points out that this was with 2.4.9-*)
is bad, even if you aren't microsoft.

> 
>  Hope this saves people some time. ;)
> 
>      Jima

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