problem with FUSE using ntfs-3g

[pajamabama]

I emerged the ntfs3g r/w NTFS driver. When I mount my XP partition though I get the following error:

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Oberon ~ # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/Windows/
WARNING: Deficient FUSE kernel module detected. Some driver features are
         not available (swap file on NTFS, boot from NTFS by LILO), and
         unmount is not safe unless it's made sure the ntfs-3g process
         naturally terminates after calling 'umount'. The safe FUSE kernel
         driver is included in the official Linux kernels since version
         2.6.20-rc1, or in the FUSE 2.6.0 or later software packages,
         except the faulty FUSE version 2.6.2. Please see the next page
         for more help: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#fuse26


I've checked the support topic listed in there and it basically says that the fuse version is ok, but the fuse-kernel-module is from an old or buggy version of fuse. I downloaded the source, and did what it says:

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./configure --enable-kernel-module

etc...

Then when I remerge ntfs3g it doesn't seem to find the new kernel module because it also remerges fuse from portage (even though I just installed from tarball).

Anyway, I'm a bit confused all around. anyone else get this to work? have the same problems?

[Appleman1234]

Have you tried modules-rebuild ?

What is your kernel version ?

[Jesterhead]

I guess that the fuse driver fuse complains about is compiled in the kernel.
So you must either upgrade the kernel, or recompile the current kernel and remove the fuse stuff.

[pajamabama]

I'm not sure what modules-rebuild is. there's nothing in portage called that, and google only gave some vague responses.

As for it being compiled into the kernel, is it not supposed to be a kernel module? Actually, that's partly why I'm confused.

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wl-dhcp140-244 ~ # lsmod | grep fuse
wl-dhcp140-244 ~ #         

And according to their support page I should run

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wl-dhcp140-244 ~ # grep fuse /var/log/messages
...
Feb 27 13:51:35 Oberon [   51.936802] fuse init (API version 7.7)
Feb 27 21:23:40 Oberon [   44.632288] fuse init (API version 7.7)
Feb 28 19:20:35 Oberon [   45.437032] fuse init (API version 7.7)
Feb 28 20:29:10 Oberon [ 2203.260561] fuse init (API version 7.8)
Feb 28 20:29:10 Oberon [ 2203.260565] fuse distribution version: 2.6.3
Mar  1 09:51:38 Oberon [   52.434637] fuse init (API version 7.7)


and see a reference to v7.8. which, if you look closely is in there. That corresponds to the just after I installed it manually (via tarball). But portage knew nothing about it and as you can see, as of this morning (Mar 1) it's back to v7.7. Because when I remerged ntfs3g it also remerged fuse.

Should I try installing both fuse and ntfs-3g from tarball and ignore portage for now?
thanks for your help.

ps. I'm using SL 3.2 (2.6.18-gentoo-r4)