Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:12:48 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: sobomax@FreeBSD.org Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r187436 - head/sbin/mount_ntfs Message-ID: <20090119.181248.-1090025543.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200901191559.n0JFx5Dc014686@svn.freebsd.org> References: <200901191559.n0JFx5Dc014686@svn.freebsd.org>
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Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: Author: sobomax
: Date: Mon Jan 19 15:59:05 2009
: New Revision: 187436
: URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187436
:
: Log:
: In the CAVEATS section mention the fact that the NTFS kernel support isn't
: very well maintained and point user to sysutils/fusefs-ntfs, which
: at the time of this writing seems to be a better alternative.
:
: Suggested by: luigi
:
: MFC after: 2 weeks
I'd not MFC this. The 7.0 version worked a lot better for me than the
fusefs-ntfs last time I had to do some non-trivial data recovery. The
former just worked in the face of an insane number of read errors.
The latter paniced the system frequently.
Warner
: Modified:
: head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8
:
: Modified: head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8
: ==============================================================================
: --- head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8 Mon Jan 19 15:38:26 2009 (r187435)
: +++ head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8 Mon Jan 19 15:59:05 2009 (r187436)
: @@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ This utility is primarily used for read
: See the
: .Sx WRITING
: section for details about writing to an NTFS volume.
: +.Pp
: +Apart from being read-mostly, the NTFS support in the
: +.Fx
: +kernel is not actively maintained. For any non-trivial use
: +sysutils/fusefs-ntfs package, a more complete and better
: +maintained alternative, is recommended instead.
: .Sh HISTORY
: The
: .Nm
:
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