[users] Re: CentOS-5 x86_64, dkms and dkms-ntfs

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

Tru Huynh wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:06:36PM +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>> Tru Huynh wrote:
>>> The ntfs module can not be rebuild :(
>> <snip>
>>> PS: dkms-fuse and fuse-ntfs are working fine on the same machine :)
>> hi
>>
> Hi,
> 
>> why do you want to install dkms-ntfs, since fuse-ntfs-3g installs and 
>> works fine (and has write access, whereas the old dkms-ntfs was read-only)?
> 
> dkms-ntfs does not depend on anything else than the kernel,
> ntfs-3g depends on fuse. If fuse is broken, I can at least use
> the read-only access from the ntfs module.

ok, I see your point

>> just use fuse-ntfs-3g and forget about dkms-fuse.
> s/dkms-fuse/dkms-ntfs/
> your choice :)
> 
> It's a bug report on dkms-ntfs, not a ntfs VS fuse-ntfs-3g comparaison. ;)

fair enough
just trying to help, because as a very occasional ntfs user, it had me 
wondering for a bit when I found that dkms-ntfs wasn't working anymore a 
while back, but then I saw fuse-ntfs was fine

cheers


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