On Tue, 2007-09-01 at 13:28 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Jeffrey Burns wrote: > > And a question for the list - if ntfs-3g meets the requirements for > > inclusion in Extras, what disqualifies kmod-ntfs? > > Dave Jones has a new 2.6.19 kernel in the works (and it's working fine > for me on x86-64 -- thanks, Dave!) > > On Sunday, in > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-January/msg00500.html > (and related), dragoran wrote: > > can you enable the ntfs read only driver in the kernel builds? the > > patent issues are resolved and there is no need to recompile it every > > time the kernel gets updated. This is the first I've heard about the patent issues with ntfs being resolved and it's very good news. Hopefully Fedora 7 kernels will have ntfs support enabled by default. It will make it that much easier to transition my parents and sister to Fedora. > Josh Boyer replied: > > Um... This is a FC-6 erratum. Let's not go enabling new stuff in a > > released version. Rawhide is where this should be enabled first. > > No-one else seems to have commented on it, so that seems to be the > current status. > > Hope this helps, Thank you, it did. Jeff
