Re: Difference FUSE / Kernel on frontpage

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Yuval Fledel wrote:

> > 2) [[Ntfsprogs]] includes an improved driver, [[ntfsmount]], which gives
> > the same functionality as the kernel driver, additionally it also supports
> > basic cases of ordinary, directory, symlink, device and FIFO file creation,
> > deletion and renaming. See the [[ntfsmount]] page for more details.
> 
> Committed with only a minor change (mention fuse)

I love FUSE but it's very important not to mention when it's not needed. 
Especially not in a short summary for non-technical people. FUSE means 
absolutely NOTHING to almost everybody, it just adds a lot to the 
confusion.

Every occurance of the word FUSE is a showstopper because the adaption rate 
of new technologies halves if adaptors aren't familiar or are uncomfortable 
with the wording. Which is about at least 99.999% of our end-users in this 
given case.

I think it's enough to mention during installation for them that they must 
have the FUSE package installed to use the ntfsmount driver (which name is
also very unfortunate and confusing itself).

Btw, the "Q: How do I access NTFS in Linux?" perhaps could be also replaced 
as "How to access NTFS in Linux". 

        Szaka

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