Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:52:28 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, sobomax@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r187437 - head/sys/conf Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0901200052w20755420l94f0c02c547f53b7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090119.181322.-625070925.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200901191619.n0JGJrhJ015123@svn.freebsd.org> <20090119.181322.-625070925.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > In message: <200901191619.n0JGJrhJ015123@svn.freebsd.org> > Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : Author: sobomax > : Date: Mon Jan 19 16:19:53 2009 > : New Revision: 187437 > : URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187437 > : > : Log: > : Mention the fact that the NTFS kernel support isn't > : very well maintained and point user to sysutils/fusefs-ntfs, which > : at the time of this writing seems to be a better alternative. > : > : Suggested by: luigi > : MFC after: 2 weeks > > Again, I'd not MFC this to 6.x for sure and maybe not even to 7.x > since ntfs works well there. > > Warner > > : Modified: > : head/sys/conf/NOTES > : > : Modified: head/sys/conf/NOTES > : ============================================================================== > : --- head/sys/conf/NOTES Mon Jan 19 15:59:05 2009 (r187436) > : +++ head/sys/conf/NOTES Mon Jan 19 16:19:53 2009 (r187437) > : @@ -942,7 +942,11 @@ options HPFS #OS/2 File system > : options MSDOSFS #MS DOS File System (FAT, FAT32) > : options NFSSERVER #Network File System server > : options NFSLOCKD #Network Lock Manager > : -options NTFS #NT File System > : + > : +# NT File System. Read-mostly and it's not actively maintained. > : +# For a better NTFS support consider sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port/package. > : +options NTFS > : + > : options NULLFS #NULL filesystem > : # Broken (depends on NCP): > : #options NWFS #NetWare filesystem Uh, I got consistent panics on 7.x when mounting NTFS partitions created with XP. I was creating the partition without MSDOS 8.3 short filename support though. I personally think that the copy of NTFS in the kernel is stale and unusable for a lot of different use-cases, to be honest.. -Garrett
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