When trying to mount a NTFS volume, in the 2.6.6-rc1 kernel I receive: "fs type ntfs not supported by kernel" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount a ntfs partition (file type ntfs) 2. 3. Actual Results: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel Expected Results: should mount Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.6-rc1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6-rc1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X Xaw3d aalib accessibility acl acpi aim alsa apm arts avi berkdb bidi bonobo caps cdr cjk crypt cups curl dga doc dvb dvd dvdr emacs emacs-w3 encode esd ethereal evo fam fbcon flac flash foomaticdb gb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber java jpeg junit kde ladcca lcms ldap leim lesstif libg++ libgda libwww lirc mad mbox mcal memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpi msn mysql nas ncurses nls nocd odbc oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pda pdflib perl png ppds prelude python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl slang slp snmp socks5 speex spell sse ssl svga svgalib tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode usb vhosts videos wmf wxwindows x86 xface xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv yahoo zlib"
Did you enable NTFS in your kernel configuration? It's not enabled by default. Check your kernel configuration.
I compiled my kernel by using genkernel. With 2.4.25, ntfs support was enabled by default. Has this genkernel-behaviour been changed for 2.6?
Probably - use genkernel --menu-config and look for the ntfs option.
I tried "genkernel --menuconfig all" and looked for NTFS, which showed that NTFS is not compiled it. Not as a module, neither directly into the kernel. Does --menuconfig show the default configuration used when "genkernel all" (w/o --menuconfig) is run? If so, then NTFS support seems to be missing... Will it be included again in future releases, please? ;-) I think it's important...
I tried with menuconfig and now it works. I therefore propose that NTFS should be enabled in the default configuration. What do you think?
Reassigning to genkernel. My comment on this: leave NTFS disabled in the default config. This is a linux system and NTFS is not native for us. Besides, the driver only allows to read data, so it's far from complete. Why overbloat the default config?
Most other distros have NTFS enabled, as a lot of users dual boot and need to read their NTFS data. I suggest enabling it per default.
Fixed in genkernel-3.0.2b; it should reach Portage from CVS in half-an-hour. Thanks!
