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