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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:00:42 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r187438 - head
Message-ID:  <200901191700.n0JH0gio015995@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: sobomax
Date: Mon Jan 19 17:00:42 2009
New Revision: 187438
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187438

Log:
  Mention removal of NTFS from GENERIC/amd64.

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Mon Jan 19 16:19:53 2009	(r187437)
+++ head/UPDATING	Mon Jan 19 17:00:42 2009	(r187438)
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 8.
 	to maximize performance.  (To disable malloc debugging, run
 	ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.)
 
+20090119:
+	NTFS has been removed from GENERIC kernel on amd64 to match
+	GENERIC on i386. Should not cause any issues since mount_ntfs(8)
+	will load ntfs.ko module automatically when NTFS support is
+	actually needed, unless ntfs.ko is not installed or security
+	level prohibits loading kernel modules. If either is the case,
+	"options NTFS" has to be added into kernel config.
+
 20090115:
 	TCP Appropriate Byte Counting (RFC 3465) support added to kernel.
 	New field in struct tcpcb breaks ABI, so bump __FreeBSD_version to



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