ntfs-3g

[Zak B. Elep]

Hi Samuel! :D

On 9/2/06, Samuel Cormier-Iijima <sciyoshi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering about whether it would be possible/feasible/desirable
> to include ntfs-3g
> (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009) by default into
> Edgy. Myself and many others have been using it for a while now with
> few problems, and read/write NTFS would be a killer feature to have.
> Also, since Edgy's theme was to be "full of the latest bells and
> whistles," I thought including it might be appropriate.

Yup, ntfs-3g seems quite stable, and I've successfully created some
packages for it[0] as documented in my blog.[1]

[0]  http://tiber.tauware.de/~zakame/ntfs-3g/
[1]  http://zakame.spunge.org/blog/2006/08/11/ntfs-3g-love/

> However, I'm not completely sure of how stable it has to be for
> inclusion and whether or not it's too late to get stuff into repos -
> just opening this up for discussion...

It has been mentioned that ntfs-3g will be eventually merged into
ntfsprogs very, very soon.[2]  Hence, while I myself would like to see
this get into Edgy the soonest, I think it would be prudent to see
this first assessed by the ntfsprogs maintainers...

[2]  http://linux-ntfs.org

Cheers,

Zakame

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