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| config NTFS_FS | ||
| tristate "NTFS file system support" | ||
| select NLS | ||
| help | ||
| NTFS is the file system of Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003. | ||
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| Saying Y or M here enables read support. There is partial, but | ||
| safe, write support available. For write support you must also | ||
| say Y to "NTFS write support" below. | ||
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| There are also a number of user-space tools available, called | ||
| ntfsprogs. These include ntfsundelete and ntfsresize, that work | ||
| without NTFS support enabled in the kernel. | ||
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| This is a rewrite from scratch of Linux NTFS support and replaced | ||
| the old NTFS code starting with Linux 2.5.11. A backport to | ||
| the Linux 2.4 kernel series is separately available as a patch | ||
| from the project web site. | ||
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| For more information see <file:Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt> | ||
| and <http://www.linux-ntfs.org/>. | ||
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| To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the | ||
| module will be called ntfs. | ||
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| If you are not using Windows NT, 2000, XP or 2003 in addition to | ||
| Linux on your computer it is safe to say N. | ||
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| config NTFS_DEBUG | ||
| bool "NTFS debugging support" | ||
| depends on NTFS_FS | ||
| help | ||
| If you are experiencing any problems with the NTFS file system, say | ||
| Y here. This will result in additional consistency checks to be | ||
| performed by the driver as well as additional debugging messages to | ||
| be written to the system log. Note that debugging messages are | ||
| disabled by default. To enable them, supply the option debug_msgs=1 | ||
| at the kernel command line when booting the kernel or as an option | ||
| to insmod when loading the ntfs module. Once the driver is active, | ||
| you can enable debugging messages by doing (as root): | ||
| echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug | ||
| Replacing the "1" with "0" would disable debug messages. | ||
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| If you leave debugging messages disabled, this results in little | ||
| overhead, but enabling debug messages results in very significant | ||
| slowdown of the system. | ||
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| When reporting bugs, please try to have available a full dump of | ||
| debugging messages while the misbehaviour was occurring. | ||
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| config NTFS_RW | ||
| bool "NTFS write support" | ||
| depends on NTFS_FS | ||
| help | ||
| This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. | ||
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| The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without | ||
| changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or | ||
| renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to | ||
| so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot | ||
| be written to. | ||
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| While we cannot guarantee that it will not damage any data, we have | ||
| so far not received a single report where the driver would have | ||
| damaged someones data so we assume it is perfectly safe to use. | ||
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| Note: While write support is safe in this version (a rewrite from | ||
| scratch of the NTFS support), it should be noted that the old NTFS | ||
| write support, included in Linux 2.5.10 and before (since 1997), | ||
| is not safe. | ||
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| This is currently useful with TopologiLinux. TopologiLinux is run | ||
| on top of any DOS/Microsoft Windows system without partitioning your | ||
| hard disk. Unlike other Linux distributions TopologiLinux does not | ||
| need its own partition. For more information see | ||
| <http://topologi-linux.sourceforge.net/> | ||
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| It is perfectly safe to say N here. |