Re: libguestfs-winsupport re-enable NTFS
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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW
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
Hello everyone, Rich, is this something we can consider enabling back in AlmaLinux? Does it work? Is it safe? -- Best Regards, Andrew Lukoshko | AlmaLinux OS Architect
On Wednesday, Apr 02, 2025 at 2:22 PM, AL13N <alien@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
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 09:56:17AM +0200, Andrew Lukoshko wrote:
* Hello everyone,
Rich, is this something we can consider enabling back in AlmaLinux? Does it work? Is it safe?
From a technical point of view, it all works fine. I cannot comment on why we don't enable this or what you should do from a non-technical POV, so please don't ask! Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
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