SPEC : Write Support For NTFS

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:22:13PM +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Florent Mertens wrote:
> > There is unfortunately no way that me or one of my co-writer can come to
> > Mountain view in November (if your 'team' refer to the linux-ntfs team,
> > i have to precise that i'm not really a member of this team, more an
> > obscure contributor ;) ) I can't really afford me such trip (even if i
> > 'd like to :) ).
> >   
> I understand. I think you need to ask around and find out if there is
> someone on your team (in the  group that really understands what will
> need to be done) who can be there to present it. Since we will have a
> full VoIP infrastructure, anyone will be able to participate in the
> conference from anywhere they have broadband BUT it is still probably
> necessary for their to be a competent, coding champion for any proposed
> idea.

The trouble with this, as I noted on the spec, is that the upstream authors
of the relevant tools state quite clearly that they are neither ready nor
intended for prime time.  We shouldn't take risks with our users' data with
software which is specifically contraindicated for general use by its
authors.


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 - mdz