Hello everyone,
Rich, is this something we can consider enabling back in AlmaLinux?
Does it work? Is it safe?
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Best Regards,
Andrew Lukoshko | AlmaLinux OS Architect
On Wednesday, Apr 02, 2025 at 2:22 PM, AL13N <alien(a)rmail.be
(mailto:alien@rmail.be)> wrote:
Richard W.M. Jones schreef op 2025-04-02 12:54:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 12:35:50PM +0200, AL13N wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've noticed you had disabled NTFS support from guestmount (and the
> > likes), but kept it for v2v.
> >
> > Can you tell me the reason why it was disabled from guestmount in
> > the first place?
> >
> > How would I re-enable it in the spec file today? the winsupport does
> > seem like the mount.ntfs is there, is it blocked in guestfs itself?
>
> That's intentional, we're not going to change it, and I can't
> go into the reasons.
>
> Rich.
ok, thanks you for reacting. Since there seems to be no good reason,
I'll advise some other distro's to re-enable it.
in guestfs; I found that patch005 is the culprit.
Regards,
AL13N