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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:37:25 -0800
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@sippysoft.com>
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Subject: Re: NTFS in GENERIC: opt-in or opt-out?
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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:25:14PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am reviewing differences between amd64 and i386 GENERIC kernels and 
>> noticed that for some unclear reason we ship amd64 GENERIC with NTFS 
>> module compiled in, while i386 without it. IMHO both should match. The 
>> question is whether NTFS should be i386 way (opt in) or amd64 way (opt 
>> out) in GENERIC? What do people think?
> 
> given that the sysutils/fusefs-ntfs seems to be much better,
> I'd rather remove the in-kernel ntfs from both and replace
> with a note on what to do to use fusefs-ntfs

I guess that you can use sysutils/fusefs-ntfs with or without NTFS in 
the kernel, so that this may not very strong reason to me.

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