From owner-svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 11:54:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5072106566B; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:54:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (mail-gw1.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3009A8FC12; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:54:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw7.york.ac.uk (mail-gw7.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.30]) by mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n0KBs6mb006651; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:54:06 GMT Received: from buffy-128.york.ac.uk ([144.32.128.160] helo=buffy.york.ac.uk) by mail-gw7.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1LPFBG-00036k-Id; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:54:06 +0000 Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n0KBs626013206; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:54:06 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id n0KBs6lG013200; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:54:06 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20090119.181124.-1270972755.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200901191536.n0JFaPTN014129@svn.freebsd.org> <20090119.181124.-1270972755.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:54:05 +0000 Message-Id: <1232452445.22840.21.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin@freebsd.org Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-stable@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-stable-7@FreeBSD.org, rwatson@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r187434 - stable/7/sys/amd64/conf X-BeenThere: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for all the -stable branches of the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:54:13 -0000 On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 18:11 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: > Robert Watson writes: > : > : On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > : > : > Author: sobomax > : > Date: Mon Jan 19 15:36:25 2009 > : > New Revision: 187434 > : > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187434 > : > > : > Log: > : > MFC: take NTFS option out to match i386 GENERIC. > : > : Are you going to modify UPDATING to say that "options NTFS" will now be > : required where it wasn't previously on amd64? Also, insta-MFC's are generally > : a bad idea, even for changes believed harmless, as they often have unexpected > : side effects. > > Especially since NTFS works very well in 6.x and I think in 7.x. It > is only in -current that there are issues exposed by other work... Do you know which other work exposed these issues? Or is it broken but nobody knows why? If the cause is known, this might make a good "junior kernel hacker" task, or whatever that page is called now, especially given other file systems have been changed and may serve as example code. Gavin