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Re: Difference FUSE / Kernel on frontpage: msg#00013

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Subject: Re: Difference FUSE / Kernel on frontpage

On 7/8/06, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
>
> 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.

Updated.

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

Updated.

--
Sincerely
Yuval Fledel


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