Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:46:05 +0800 From: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> To: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Jeff Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support Message-ID: <47AA62DD.5050704@micom.mng.net> In-Reply-To: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com>
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Attilio Rao wrote: > As exposed by several users, NTFS seems to be broken even before first > VFS commits happeing around the end of December. Those commits exposed > some problems about NTFS which are currently under investigation. > Ultimately, This filesystem is also unmaintained at the moment. > > Speaking with jeff, we agreed on what can be a possible compromise: > remove the kernel support for NTFS and maybe take care of the FUSE > implementation. > What I now propose is a small survey which can shade a light on us > about what do you think about this idea and its implications: > - Do you use NTFS? > Yes, I have external NTFS USB hard drive and from time to time I need to copy some files, delete etc. > - Are you interested in maintaining it? > - Do you know a good reason to not use FUSE ntfs implementation? FUSE implementation allows to write to NTFS partition, so it is really useful. However either fusefs-ntfs related stuff or kernel itself seems like buggy, I'm having fatal trap/crash when I try to mount NTFS partition in FreeBSD-7.0-PRERELEASE. > What > the kernel counter part adds? > - Do you think axing the kernel support a good idea? > Maybe, since there is already a port fusefs-ntfs. Ganbold > Thanks, > Attilio > > > -- Alex Haley was adopted!
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