Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:16:57 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@BSDIMP.COM> To: 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 Message-ID: <20090120.111657.2035877114.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <1232452445.22840.21.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901191552120.36163@fledge.watson.org> <20090119.181124.-1270972755.imp@bsdimp.com> <1232452445.22840.21.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk>
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Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 18:11 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901191552120.36163@fledge.watson.org>
: > Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> 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.
I just know it works for me, and has been the most reliable file
system in the face of errors in the device that I've had to interact
with in the tree. You'd likely have to go read the PR database to
understand when/where it fails for people.
Warner
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