On 02/02/2010 01:14 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:47:21PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Hi spot,
>
> ntfs-3g is branched for EL-5, but we noticed there is no build.
>
>
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/EL-5/ntfs-3g/
>
> Since FUSE was added to the RHEL 5.4 kernel, it is possible to build
> ntfs-3g (which is a FUSE module), indeed we have done a scratch build
> already:
>
>
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1920739
>
> Do you mind if I build this in EL-5?
>
> Also do you mind if I backport from Rawhide? Although there are not
> any specific features we need, we do all our libguestfs testing
> against later versions of ntfs-3g, and AIUI there should be no
> backwards compatibility issues for EPEL users (partly because it's not
> an API and partly because there is no build for EPEL users at the
> moment anyway).
>
Any thoughts on this?
If it works, definitely +1 from me. Especially as the latest centosplus
kernel does not include support for ntfs.