On 10.10.2007 22:23, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > [...] > I asked DaveJ not to enable the ntfs kmod. ..and you two never cared to at least update the informations in the bug? The last comment is from 2007-05-28 and people IMHO deserve at least a answer. > 1. It doesn't work as well as ntfs-3g. Arguable -- some people have more trust in the kernel stuff where kernel-developers keep a close eye on. > 1A. It doesn't have RW support. True; but on the other hand: 1B: ntfs from the kernel doesn't need fuse and thus you don't have to add yourself to the fuse group. > 2. It is unmaintained upstream. Okay, there is not much work being done... http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=fs/ntfs;hb=HEAD ...but I would not call it unmaintained. Further from http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=MAINTAINERS;h=9a91d9e3f1f25c2e0aaded950fae19e4d6fa7e08;hb=HEAD NTFS FILESYSTEM [...] S: Maintained > 3. mount.ntfs points to ntfs-3g in Fedora. So, even if someone gets the > ntfs.ko in place, they're still probably using ntfs-3g. Nope: $ /sbin/modinfo ntfs filename: /lib/modules/2.6.23-0.202.rc8.fc8/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko $ LC_ALL=C rpm -q ntfs-3g package ntfs-3g is not installed $ LC_ALL=C ls {/usr,}/{s,}bin/mount*ntfs ls: cannot access /usr/sbin/mount*ntfs: No such file or directory ls: cannot access /usr/bin/mount*ntfs: No such file or directory ls: cannot access /sbin/mount*ntfs: No such file or directory ls: cannot access /bin/mount*ntfs: No such file or directory $ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/misc/ $ mount | grep /dev/sda3 /dev/sda3 on /mnt/misc type ntfs (rw) ---- /me will keep away from this thread now -- this won't lead to anything anyway; I'll tag it in the growing categories "Fedora knows better then me want I want" and "why Fedora never will become a true community distribution" Cu knurd -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
