Re: 2.2.0 wishlist

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:23:28 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Anders Broberg wrote:

> Hi!
>
> First of all: A "Thank you" to all great coders who have made Linux 2.0.0!
>
>
> > Now that Linux 2.0 is out, it's time for another round of Request
> > For Features.
>
> I'm sorry if I have missed something as I am a quite new reader of
> this mailinglist, but something that i would like to see in future
> versions of the kernel is support for the NTFS file system. I have
> searched for utilities for lhe current kernel, but the oly ones I
> have found mounts NTFS read-only.
>

The author/maintainer of this said something about read/write a while ago
as far as I can rember, went something allong the lines of 'I don't want
to release the read/write support until it's totaly debuged'. I could be
wrong, so don't quote me on that.

> A second wish is support for tray locking on mounted ATAPI CD-ROM's
> although I don't know if it's technicaly possible.
>

Well my ATAPI NEC-260 locks, so it could be your cd-rom drive, not all
can lock.

Bryn

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