From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 18:18:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA08B106567D; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:18:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@BSDIMP.COM) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (bsdimp.com [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690FA8FC2D; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:18:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@BSDIMP.COM) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n0KIGMCq001274; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:16:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:16:57 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20090120.111657.2035877114.imp@bsdimp.com> To: gavin@FreeBSD.org From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <1232452445.22840.21.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> References: <20090119.181124.-1270972755.imp@bsdimp.com> <1232452445.22840.21.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:18:13 -0000 In message: <1232452445.22840.21.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Gavin Atkinson writes: : 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. 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