Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:29:51 +0300 From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> 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: <oFiHM30Tb%2BSTFaBDXSmvJZCepAs@5IP5c2ixZNmdmSk2JM%2BgVf7EUdw> In-Reply-To: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com>
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Attilio, good day. Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:00:41AM +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. > > 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, especially on the multi-homed notebook systems. In read-only mode it rocks. > - Are you interested in maintaining it? Yes. If you can throw the buglist for NTFS on me, I will be very grateful. > - Do you know a good reason to not use FUSE ntfs implementation? What > the kernel counter part adds? Don't know, newer tried FUSE. > - Do you think axing the kernel support a good idea? IMO, not a good one. -- Eygene
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