Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:18:20 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, Jeff Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support Message-ID: <20080207141820.GR99258@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <3bbf2fe10802070613mf2bf3feg5dcb480501fcfbbc@mail.gmail.com> References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> <47AAFDED.9030301@freebsd.org> <47AB05A1.7010803@freebsd.org> <3bbf2fe10802070613mf2bf3feg5dcb480501fcfbbc@mail.gmail.com>
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* Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> [080207 06:13] wrote: > 2008/2/7, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>: > > Eric Anderson wrote: > > > I think Alfred's point is really interesting. How many people that > > > don't use it that say 'axe it' does it take to override 1 person saying > > > 'keep it!'? > > > > The real question is how many people does it take to say 'I'll maintain > > it'? Just one. Without it, it will only bitrot as evidenced by Attilios > > question. NTFS is currently broken, just not as obvious because WITNESS > > didn't track and enforce lockmgr locks. > > Andre catched exactly my point. > The big problem is that we have a list of several unmaintained fs. > NTFS is in this list. The support is not reliable, it is only > available in read mode and eventually bugged. > I'm not sure I want to keep this if nobody wants to maintain it. All I'm saying is that I think this is a bit premature considering the users. Within less than 24hrs we've had a few users reporting in as users, I'm sure the fixes (now that we have some good assertions) are going to be trivial. Why not let it ferment/rot for a release cycle and then see what the story is? thanks, -- - Alfred Perlstein
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