NTFS support for external SD

[Guest koukos]

Is there a way to add ntfs support for external SD?

[Guest DistortedLoop]

Is there a way to add ntfs support for external SD?

You'd need a kernel that supports it, which I doubt exists officially, because of licensing with Microsoft, or at least a module to add at boot time to add NTFS support.

It's certainly not something you can with the phone out of the box.

[Guest X-Ray A4T]

You'd need a kernel that supports it, which I doubt exists officially, because of licensing with Microsoft, or at least a module to add at boot time to add NTFS support.

It's certainly not something you can with the phone out of the box.

I have no issues accessing NTFS with Ubuntu Linux. ntfs-3g (Wikipedia) is an open source implementation of NTFS so there should be no reason why Android could not access NTFS using ntfs-3g, someone just needs to compile (port?) it for ARM.

Edited September 27, 2010 by X-Ray A4T

[Guest Zeninsight]

I have no issues accessing NTFS with Ubuntu Linux. ntfs-3g (Wikipedia) is an open source implementation of NTFS so there should be no reason why Android could not access NTFS using ntfs-3g, someone just needs to compile (port?) it for ARM.

People are working on this. Apparently it does NOT need to be in the kernel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace

By using FUSE and NTFS-3G ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G ) folks are trying to make it happen.

like this guy:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-dev...669f65ffc4a539b

And this guy (Chinese must translate)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...droid%26hl%3Den