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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:47:54 +0100
From:      Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
To:        Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r241636 - in head: etc/mtree include lib/libprocstat rescue/rescue sbin sbin/mount share/dict share/man/man7 sys/boot/forth sys/conf sys/geom/label sys/kern sys/mips/rmi sys/modules sys...
Message-ID:  <CAJ-FndBunozsMve_DATFddt=Pw6TcMmYkQhohHiRC7GWe1unuQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121018030312.GA1983@reks>
References:  <201210171130.q9HBU0fH060245@svn.freebsd.org> <20121018030312.GA1983@reks>

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On 10/18/12, Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> wrote:
> On (17/10/2012 11:30), Attilio Rao wrote:
>> Author: attilio
>> Date: Wed Oct 17 11:30:00 2012
>> New Revision: 241636
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/241636
>>
>> Log:
>>   Disconnect non-MPSAFE NTFS from the build in preparation for dropping
>>   GIANT from VFS. This code is particulary broken and fragile and other
>>   in-kernel implementations around, found in other operating systems,
>>   don't really seem clean and solid enough to be imported at all.
>>   If someone wants to reconsider in-kernel NTFS implementation for
>>   inclusion again, a fair effort for completely fixing and cleaning it
>>   up is expected.
>>
> [...]
>
> Why not to keep glabel ntfs support? I find it very useful on its own
> and it seems to require only a few constants and structs from ntfs.h
>

I think that we just want to support FreeBSD specifically supported
filesystems for this?
I will talk to pjd and see what he thinks.

Thanks,
Attilio


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