Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:42:30 +0000 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Jeff Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support Message-ID: <1202395350.2126.14.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-JZcY1Bk03LPL/MIaQ2VE Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 02:00 +0100, 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. >=20 > 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? Yes > - Are you interested in maintaining it? No, wouldn't know how > - Do you know a good reason to not use FUSE ntfs implementation? What > the kernel counter part adds? Didn't work last time I tried, running RELENG_7 and the NTFS support in base does everything I need, don't experience any problems. I don't like the idea of=20 > - Do you think axing the kernel support a good idea? >=20 Truthfully, no not really. If no-one wishes to maintain it/fix it now, then I'd prefer it to be disconnected from the build until it annoys someone enough. Apparently its already broken and unusable, but WFM. /dev/ad4s1 on /mnt/windows (ntfs, local, read-only) If the base NTFS support was axed, would the fuse-kmod, or equivalent, find its way into the base? > Thanks, > Attilio >=20 Tom --=-JZcY1Bk03LPL/MIaQ2VE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHqxjTlcRvFfyds/cRAqXLAJ9dtvANtiO9qEmVhM/VgZsbFdyYDgCffbWu PSyGQUCq8Hl6+zzcJC6YTEI= =tGRz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JZcY1Bk03LPL/MIaQ2VE--
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