Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:30:00 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: attilio@freebsd.org Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@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: <201210180830.00463.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-FndBunozsMve_DATFddt=Pw6TcMmYkQhohHiRC7GWe1unuQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201210171130.q9HBU0fH060245@svn.freebsd.org> <20121018030312.GA1983@reks> <CAJ-FndBunozsMve_DATFddt=Pw6TcMmYkQhohHiRC7GWe1unuQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday, October 18, 2012 6:47:54 am Attilio Rao wrote: > 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. Eh, I think handling volume labels for other filesystems is not a bad idea. For example, we support labels from ISO-9660 filesystems which isn't a FreeBSD-specific filesystem. -- John Baldwin
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