[ATrpms-users] fuse kmdl

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 12:13:24PM -0500, Jeff Guerdat wrote:
> > The userland part is identical to what fedora ships, BUT now you
> > kmdl that really bring fuse everywhere up to 2.6.x. The report you
> > quote
> 
> This implies that the as-shipped from Redhat fuse package has both 
> kernel- and userland parts, correct?

No, only user parts. The kernel parts have been merged into the
kernel. That's what make updating fuse w/o using kmdls difficult,
because every fuse upgrade needs in principle a kernel upgrade.

> > So upgrading to what ATrpms hold means you get the fixed kernel-land
> > bits which both old and new ntfs-3g benefit. Furthermore you don't
> > need to wait until there is another kernel release by Fedora.
> 
> But the kmdl is kernel-dependent so I have to wait for a new kernel to 
> appear anyways.  I realize that's not true in this specific case (2869 
> is already released and this is a fix for it) but future revisions from 
> Redhat *could* make the ATrpms module simply redundant, correct?

You mena the kmdl module - yes, this is what will probably happen, at
least noone said that the next kernel upgrade wouldn't fix this and
the relevent people where on the bug report.

> Basically, my question is whether there's a guaranteed (more or less) 
> improvement in some way over using the Redhat files/method?

Well, yes - both in principle (it makes more sense to build stuff as
kmdls than to always have to path the kernel) and specifically in this
case: It stabilized both the current situation and offers the required
api bits for ntfs upgrades.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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