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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:14:39 +0000
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Barros?= <joao.barros@gmail.com>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r187459 - in head: sbin/mount_ntfs sys/conf
Message-ID:  <70e8236f0901200214h492eec2ci1fa765a44566c0c7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200901200208.n0K28LBS029426@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200901200208.n0K28LBS029426@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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

"Read-mostly, see mount_ntfs(8) for details."
That phrase doesn't sound good. How about: "For kernel read-only
support see mount_ntfs(8) for details." ?

-- 
Joao Barros



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