Greg Bailey wrote: > David G. Miller wrote: >> John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote: > >> I vaguely recall that IBM wanted to open source HPFS at one time and >> was told by Microsquish that they wouldn't allow it. Funny that IBM >> went one better and open sourced JFS instead. >> I'm in kind of the same boat as you since I was an OS/2 user before I >> switched to Linux. I think the HPFS information was from a discussion >> as to why IBM couldn't open source OS/2 as a means of continuing >> support. Remember, we're talking about the same Microsquish that has >> attempted to patent the FAT file system. I'd be very surprised if >> NTFS wasn't IP encumbered. Debian tends to be very paranoid as to >> technical features and stability but they don't have the financial >> exposure that Red Hat has when it comes to infringing IP. Despite protestations from the lamentable SCO, IBM owns JFS, which originated in AIX. However, the port was from OS/2. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> > Could it be that Red Hat doesn't enable NTFS in their kernels because > they simply don't want to support NTFS? That is almost certainly the case; it's the reason it hasn't supported resiserfs, jfs, xfs etc. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list