better install experience
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Thu Oct 11 21:13:46 UTC 2007
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:46:23PM +0300, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> It was last year:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------->
> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:00:52 +0300 (MET DST)
> From: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka at sienet.hu>
> To: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: ntfs kernel module
>
> [...]
>
> > the kernel driver is "safer".
>
> I'm not sure. It's true that its functionality is very limited (ntfs-3g
> also supports read-only mounts of course) but
>
> - unlike ntfs-3g, the kernel driver isn't quality tested
>
> - I've fixed many problems in the NTFS code base which could also
> exist in the kernel driver. One of the most serious bugs I
> remember was freeing memory in truncate() which could be modified
> later on (random memory corruptions).
>
> [...]
> <-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Doesn't ring any bells. If the attribution of "safer" was something I
said, I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking at the time.
Given the heritage of ntfs-3g, it's clearly untrue, and I agree with
your comments.
Dave
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