Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 22:42:27 +0100 From: "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org> To: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Jeff Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support Message-ID: <3bbf2fe10802091342u189097cna04cbad8d0177efe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0802091338h4d2698d7v74fb029694bcf9bf@mail.gmail.com> References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> <oFiHM30Tb%2BSTFaBDXSmvJZCepAs@5IP5c2ixZNmdmSk2JM%2BgVf7EUdw> <20080208162231.R17387@fledge.watson.org> <47ACD532.2090206@FreeBSD.org> <790a9fff0802091338h4d2698d7v74fb029694bcf9bf@mail.gmail.com>
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2008/2/9, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>: > On 2/8/08, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Robert Watson wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > > > > > >>> - Are you interested in maintaining it? > > >> > > >> Yes. If you can throw the buglist for NTFS on me, I will be very > > >> grateful. > > > > > > Sign the man up :-). > > > > > > Sounds good to me. I've posted on -current several times since > > December with crash dumps, etc. I think the problem at this point is > > that we don't know what the bugs are, or else I suspect at least some > > of them would be fixed already. > > > > I believe I have solved the panics with the NTFS filesystem by porting > the NetBSD lockmgr -> mutex locking changes to our NTFS filesystem > implementation. > > The locking changes are available in PR 120483 > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120483 > > I have also submitted a style change PR which will allow us to easily > compare the NetBSD implementation to our NTFS implementation in PR > 120482: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120482 Scot, why didn't you modify the patch in a way it reduces diffs against our HEAD as I suggested privately? :( Attilio -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein
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