Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:03:04 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, Jeff Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org>, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support Message-ID: <47AB8E28.4050502@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080207171913.M96200@fledge.watson.org> References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> <47AAFDED.9030301@freebsd.org> <47AB05A1.7010803@freebsd.org> <3bbf2fe10802070613mf2bf3feg5dcb480501fcfbbc@mail.gmail.com> <20080207171913.M96200@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote:
> If you axe write support, does the maintainability of the kernel ntfs
> get easier? As I understand it, the write support is rather
> limited, and debugging and fixing read support is generally a lot
> easier for a variety of reasons.
The few serious attempts I've made to use the NTFS in the base to write
data were unsuccessful, and given the instability of the code I didn't
push it very hard since I didn't want to scramble my data.
> There's also a lot less risk to data. :-)
Right. :)
> I think it's reasonable to surmise that, given our rather limited
> write support currently, the kernel ntfs code is used for data
> migration and limited sharing to FreeBSD in various forms, but that
> msdofs remains the general data transport of choice...
Read support that works is better than R/W support that doesn't, yes. So
if someone wants to step up to maintain this and axing write support
gets us something that actually works, who am I to argue?
I think keeping the goal(s) of R/W support in the base, and/or working
FUSE in mind is a Good Thing, but getting a working solution to at least
one of these problems would be a big step forward.
Doug
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