[KLUG Members] FYI: Fedora and NTFS

[Robert G. Brown]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:45:39 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:

>Great! I wonder how many hours of frustration this has caused people
>over the years who weren't lucky enough to receive this "by the way."
I have no idea. My sense of this is that no one can assume that some
filesystem, supported and defined by one vendor, is going to be 
supported by Linux.

>Everything I've read and my experience with other distros would lead me
>never to expect or suspect this.
Do you mean that EVERY distro you have used is installed out-of-box-with
full NTS support?

>Nicholas Wells simply says, "Linux supports read access to this file
>system" (The Complete Guide to Linux System Administration, 186).
Yeah, some books say all sorts of things. They're not much use when
they do not clearly relate to a particular release of a particular
software item. I've noticed that this is true of many OS'es, on
many platforms, in 4 decades of experience in this industry.

>This looks like a real pain.
What exactly looks like a real pain?

>So much for even thinking that FC4 might be end-user friendly.
Yeah, you're right. FC4 also doesn't support Pyramid out-of-the-box.
I think I'll toss it all, and go back to what I was using before.

It is difficult to see how this is a show-stopper. I can sympathize
with a certain degree of frustration, not unlike my initial experiences
with Linux, where a book said one thing while the software said another,
and the documentation with the software said still something else. I
didn't worry about user-friendliness, but I did move on and find other
tools that (among other things0 more clearly stated what was and was
not possible.

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