Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:37:22 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NTFS in GENERIC: opt-in or opt-out? Message-ID: <15305.1232357842@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:08:06 CST." <790a9fff0901190108r4eb3232bqfc6a0c8af8cd7c71@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <790a9fff0901190108r4eb3232bqfc6a0c8af8cd7c71@mail.gmail.com>, Scot Hetzel writes: >On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Erich Dollansky wrote: >> Any particular reason why not? Memory is cheap, 100-200KB of extra kernel >> code doesn't really matter today, while NTFS is probably the most widespread >> filesystem after MSDOS. Therefore supporting it in the GENERIC out of the >> box even in the read-only mode (our NTFS driver is read-only AFAIK) could >> benefit many users. >Since a buildkernel will install the ntfs.ko kernel module by default, >their is no need to have the NTFS filesystem complied into GENERIC. Seconded, we should move towards a mode modular kernel, not less. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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