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From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>
To: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>
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Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support
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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