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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2003-04-22 15:41:52
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Tom Ward wrote: > > > BTW, what's the point distributing the old, broken and unmaintained NTFS > > > driver instead of the new, correct and maintained one what Mandrake, Gentoo > > > and others use? > > > > I have to ask, as this is a showstopper for me at the moment, does the new > > NTFS driver allow NFS exports yet? > > No. Does the old? That could be an argument for the old driver although I > can't see it anywhere mentioned. I also didn't see much request for this > [yours is the first] but seems reasonable and the TODO mentions it. Anton > or Richard should know more about the issue. > > > I remember reading that there was some technical problem, but can't > > remember the exact details, I don't suppose anyone's been working on > > this... Nobody ever expressed interessed in it which is why noone ever bothered working on it... Now that someone is interested I will consider working on this in the near-ish future. But note that we may well only do it for 2.5.x kernels as 2.4.x kernels handle nfs completely differently (unless their nfs support has been back-updated to the 2.5.x way). > I don't know how difficult would be to implement NFS export, maybe I'll > take a look if nobody comments. To implement properly pretty much impossible as there just isn't enough state information available unless we do something stupid like adding the text of the entire path to each node which would be absolutely disgusting... To implement so it works for most intents and purposes not too difficult. To get to work well enough ish for the common case of both server and client never dieing during active connections, relatively easy. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
