Nooo.... there was no talk of NTFS; rather there was discussion on how to change the mount scripts to accept an external card in ext3 / ext4 format.
One major issue though with that was the usbmounting to a PC; if the external SD card is in NON fat32 format, then the host (Windows) would have to have drivers to understand the file system used on the SD card.
See
Hacking SD card file system