On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Rich Pieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/2/2016 8:48 AM, IngeGNUe wrote: > > That strikes me as weird because /etc/fstab has been around forever. Is > > this just FUD, is Apple prone to FUD? Or...have they broken > > compatibility with such things as you would see in GNU and BSD? > > Not FUD and not broken. Macintosh uses an automount mechanism similar to > the hotplug automounter found on most Linux desktops. Careless use of > fstab can interfere with these mechanisms. Agreed, and also limits to support and service. But it seems that such edits would have to be more unlucky than simply careless. I suppose the automounter needs it's context directory...and no collisions, but I'm not following how *adding* an NTFS volume as read/write instead of read only would accomplish that. The open sources driver project clearly stated that write was experimental for a very long time. I don't know what version is on your mac or if writing is now considered production ready. Anyway oss always comes with disclaimers and no guarantees. I don't know if they have now but MS did not publish clear standards for interoperation and so the open source / free drivers were reverse engineered. Obviously writing to a file system has much greater risks of data loss than reeds. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
