On 7/15/06, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/15/06, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just came across the following article at OSNews regarding the state
> of the NTFS-3G driver:
> http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=15196
>
> It seems to be working pretty fine, but I saw some posts regarding
> patent problems. Is there anyone aware of limitations on making it
> available by default in the ISO?
Before even getting to patent issues, I'd be very wary of adding
non-mainline-kernel FS'es that "seem to be working fine" if they're
gonna touch people's Windows partitions.
It's a userspace solution based on FUSE, which isn't going to be
integrated into the kernel (according to its developer). By reading
their discussions and the linked page at osnews, it looks like it's
doing its work pretty fine, too, much better than the current driver
shipped with Linux.
What else could be more useless than enabling writes on NTFS in the
mainline kernel anyways? It doesn't look that interesting to only
allow writes to files if they don't change their sizes. By the way,
I'm with you in the sense that no one of us have a real experience on
using that, but I think it's worth discussing and investigating
whether it can be a safe replacement for the native NTFS driver.
There are some dual-boot computers in my lab at the University which
aren't being used for a long time. If that's the case, I can take some
of them and run some simple stress scripts (which I was never going to
do with the native driver, by the way).
--
Lucas
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