Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:33:32 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Jeff Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org>, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support Message-ID: <47AAA63C.4040504@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com>
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Attilio Rao wrote:
> As exposed by several users, NTFS seems to be broken even before first
> VFS commits happeing around the end of December. Those commits exposed
> some problems about NTFS which are currently under investigation.
> Ultimately, This filesystem is also unmaintained at the moment.
>
> Speaking with jeff, we agreed on what can be a possible compromise:
> remove the kernel support for NTFS and maybe take care of the FUSE
> implementation.
> What I now propose is a small survey which can shade a light on us
> about what do you think about this idea and its implications:
> - Do you use NTFS?
When it works, yes, I use it often.
> - Are you interested in maintaining it?
EOVERMYHEAD
> - Do you know a good reason to not use FUSE ntfs implementation? What
> the kernel counter part adds?
Two, first I prefer to eat our own dog food, and I rarely need to write
to the NTFS partition (although it does sometimes come in handy). And
second the last time I tried to use it in -current it panicked too, but
that was some time ago.
> - Do you think axing the kernel support a good idea?
I think we should do it right, or not do it in the base. We should have
_one_ working implementation, if that is FUSE then that's fine with me.
Doug
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