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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:08:21 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r187459 - in head: sbin/mount_ntfs sys/conf
Message-ID:  <200901200208.n0K28LBS029426@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: sobomax
Date: Tue Jan 20 02:08:21 2009
New Revision: 187459
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187459

Log:
  Tone down warning about the quality of the NTFS VFS module. It appears that
  not all developers share luigi opinion about quality of sysutils/fusefs-ntfs
  compared to our kernel NTFS module.

Modified:
  head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8
  head/sys/conf/NOTES

Modified: head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8
==============================================================================
--- head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8	Tue Jan 20 01:54:05 2009	(r187458)
+++ head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8	Tue Jan 20 02:08:21 2009	(r187459)
@@ -155,11 +155,8 @@ 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.
+For a full read-write NTFS support consider sysutils/fusefs-ntfs
+port/package.
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm

Modified: head/sys/conf/NOTES
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/conf/NOTES	Tue Jan 20 01:54:05 2009	(r187458)
+++ head/sys/conf/NOTES	Tue Jan 20 02:08:21 2009	(r187459)
@@ -943,8 +943,9 @@ options 	MSDOSFS			#MS DOS File System (
 options 	NFSSERVER		#Network File System server
 options		NFSLOCKD		#Network Lock Manager
 
-# NT File System. Read-mostly and it's not actively maintained.
-# For a better NTFS support consider sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port/package.
+# NT File System. Read-mostly, see mount_ntfs(8) for details.
+# For a full read-write NTFS support consider sysutils/fusefs-ntfs
+# port/package.
 options 	NTFS
 
 options 	NULLFS			#NULL filesystem



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