Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:13:48 +0100 From: "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org> To: "Andre Oppermann" <andre@freebsd.org> Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, Jeff Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support Message-ID: <3bbf2fe10802070613mf2bf3feg5dcb480501fcfbbc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47AB05A1.7010803@freebsd.org> References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> <47AAFDED.9030301@freebsd.org> <47AB05A1.7010803@freebsd.org>
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2008/2/7, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>: > Eric Anderson wrote: > > I think Alfred's point is really interesting. How many people that > > don't use it that say 'axe it' does it take to override 1 person saying > > 'keep it!'? > > The real question is how many people does it take to say 'I'll maintain > it'? Just one. Without it, it will only bitrot as evidenced by Attilios > question. NTFS is currently broken, just not as obvious because WITNESS > didn't track and enforce lockmgr locks. Andre catched exactly my point. The big problem is that we have a list of several unmaintained fs. NTFS is in this list. The support is not reliable, it is only available in read mode and eventually bugged. I'm not sure I want to keep this if nobody wants to maintain it. Attilio -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein
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