A question about NTFS
Jeff Kinz
jkinz at kinz.org
Mon May 16 18:45:09 UTC 2005
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:55:59AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:24:13AM -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > > Is it possible to bind ntfs to the linux kernel?
> > Yes. You have done it each time you downloaded and installed the
> > linux-ntfs project to your system.
> > (see definitions 1 and 2 of "bind" below)
>
> I think he means definition #2 in a more complete sense:
>
> > 2. To link any element, tag, identifier or mnemonic with another so
> > that the two are associated in some manner. See alias.
Nope, Unless I mis-read his email, he wants the linux-ntfs project
integrated into the body proper of his favorite distro, FC-N, so he
doesn't have to install it himself after each update.
A reasonable thing to desire if you have to interface w/NTFS partitions
a lot.
> it'd be nice if rpm depsolvers could automatically pull in updated kernel
> modules when the kernel is updated -- i.e. if the kernel module rpms were
> some how "bound" to the kernel. Currently, this doesn't work very well.
> There's been some talk on the Fedora Extras list about solving the problem,
> though.
That would be a nice feature, potentially hazardous though. Automated
updates into a production environment aren't always a happy making
event. ;-)
Perhaps the risk could be mitigated with some flexible configuration
options on the update feature.
--
Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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