Quirky Xerus64 8.2 coming soon

I thought that I had built 8.2 final this afternoon, but it failed one test. This is what can happen when one introduces changes at the 12th hour.

The problem is the introduction of the ntfs-3g driver into the initramfs, as I reported yesterday:
http://bkhome.org/news/201707/ntfs-3g-driver-in-initramfs.html

I had compiled this driver statically sometime ago, I thought that it was configured to use its internal fuse driver. The ntfs-3g driver can be configured to have its own internal fuse driver, or use the fuse driver of the Linux kernel.

Testing "8.2", the ntfs-3g driver reported fuse to be missing. There is no setup to have kernel modules in the initramfs, all drivers required for bootup are expected to be builtin to the kernel.

Instead of recompiling the ntfs-3g driver, I decided to recompile the kernel. Have bumped to the latest, 4.11.11, and just made one change, fuse driver now builtin. It is compiling right now.

So, hopefully, 8.2 will be out about another 24 hours from now. Will of course have to do more sanity testing before releasing.

Tags: quirky, linux