Mounting NTFS

[Mark Haney]

Schlaegel wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Jeffrey Burns <jeff at jeffreyburns.net> wrote:
>> Also, if you don't need write access, you might want to grab kmod-ntfs
>> from livna.org.
>>
>> And a question for the list - if ntfs-3g meets the requirements for
>> inclusion in Extras, what disqualifies kmod-ntfs?
>>
> 
> 
> Now that there is ntfs-3g, I wonder why anyone chooses to install the
> crippled kernel module kmod-ntfs. If you want read only access, then
> just mount using ntfs-3g with only read access.
> 
> My question is why Fedora does not ship with ntfs-3g out of the box.
> Most dual boot scenarios will benefit from its usage and most new
> Fedora users will have an existing NTFS partition.
> 
I also believe there was some worry about including it in the distro in 
the same vein as including java in previous versions.  Licensing, or 
some such thing.


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Mark Haney
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