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.
