Hi all, I am new to NTFS-3g mailing list and very glad to hear it reach stable when I just join it :) Is there any plan to move NTFS-3G back into kernel? Moving libntfs to kernel or implement FUSE API in kernel is a good choice?
David On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 04:11 +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > Welcome, > > I'm glad to announce the release of the first open source, freely > available, stable read/write NTFS driver, NTFS-3G 1.0. > > The driver, released half year ago for beta testing, made vast progress, > thanks to ten or even hundreds of thousands testers, early adopters and > developers. > > In consequence of the open communications and positive experiences, NTFS-3G > is available for over 60 Linux distributions today, including most major > ones. Moreover it was ported to new operating systems like FreeBSD, BeOS, > Haiku and Mac OS X, to big-endian and 64-bit computer architectures, and to > new CPU's like AMD64, ARM and MIPS. > > The NTFS-3G README file is copied below which includes some general > information. > > The stable release has no major change to the release candidate released on > 7th of February, it's basically the promised rename with document updates. > > The stable release is available from > > http://www.ntfs-3g.org > > The source is yours, enjoy. > > Szaka > > > INTRODUCTION > ============ > > The ntfs-3g driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS > driver, which provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows > Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista filesystems. Almost the full > POSIX filesystem functionality is supported, the major exceptions are > changing the file ownerships and the access rights. > > The purpose of the project is to develop, continuously quality test and > support a trustable, featureful and high performance solution for hardware > platforms and operating systems whose users need to reliably interoperate > with NTFS. Besides this practical goal, the project also aims to explore > the limits of the hybrid, kernel/user space filesystem driver approach, > performance, reliability and feature richness per invested effort wise. > > The driver is in STABLE status. The test methods, the test suites used and > testimonials can be found on > > http://www.ntfs-3g.org/quality.html > > News, support answers, problem submission instructions, support and > discussion > forums, performance numbers and other information are available on the > project > web site at > > http://www.ntfs-3g.org > > > QUICK INSTALLATION > ================== > > Make sure you have the basic Linux development tools and the full FUSE > package (http://fuse.sourceforge.net) is already installed correctly on > the computer. Then type: > > ./configure > make > make install # or 'sudo make install' if you aren't root. > > > USAGE > ===== > > If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be > read-write mounted for everybody the following way (unmount the volume if > it was already mounted, and replace /dev/hda1 and /mnt/windows, if needed): > > mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows > or > ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows > > You may also need to set the 'locale' option to make file names with national > characters visible. Replace the below hu_HU.utf8 with the appropriate > setting. > > mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o locale=hu_HU.utf8 > > Please see the ntfs-3g manual page for more options and examples. > > You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by putting the below > line at the __END__ of the /etc/fstab file: > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > ntfs-3g-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
