From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 02:32:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8477216A41B; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:32:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ganbold@micom.mng.net) Received: from publicd.ub.mng.net (publicd.ub.mng.net [202.179.0.88]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2702413C457; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:32:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ganbold@micom.mng.net) Received: from [202.179.0.164] (helo=daemon.micom.mng.net) by publicd.ub.mng.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JMvq2-000KBi-2A; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:46:06 +0800 Message-ID: <47AA62DD.5050704@micom.mng.net> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:46:05 +0800 From: Ganbold User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071225) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Attilio Rao References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Yar Tikhiy , Doug Barton , Jeff Roberson , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Scot Hetzel , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:32:12 -0000 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!