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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:25:34 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Barros?= <joao.barros@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, sobomax@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r187437 - head/sys/conf
Message-ID:  <7d6fde3d0901202025m5073f93ex93fbf628751a4217@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0901200222q4b00b7a5h8c3a35ab432f9cb2@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200901191619.n0JGJrhJ015123@svn.freebsd.org> <20090119.181322.-625070925.imp@bsdimp.com> <7d6fde3d0901200052w20755420l94f0c02c547f53b7@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0901200222q4b00b7a5h8c3a35ab432f9cb2@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Jo=E3o Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>> In message: <200901191619.n0JGJrhJ015123@svn.freebsd.org>
>>>            Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>> : Author: sobomax
>>> : Date: Mon Jan 19 16:19:53 2009
>>> : New Revision: 187437
>>> : URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187437
>>> :
>>> : Log:
>>> :   Mention the fact that the NTFS kernel support isn't
>>> :   very well maintained and point user to sysutils/fusefs-ntfs, which
>>> :   at the time of this writing seems to be a better alternative.
>>> :
>>> :   Suggested by:       luigi
>>> :   MFC after:  2 weeks
>>>
>>> Again, I'd not MFC this to 6.x for sure and maybe not even to 7.x
>>> since ntfs works well there.
>>>
>>> Warner
>>>
>>> : Modified:
>>> :   head/sys/conf/NOTES
>>> :
>>> : Modified: head/sys/conf/NOTES
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>>> : --- head/sys/conf/NOTES       Mon Jan 19 15:59:05 2009        (r18743=
6)
>>> : +++ head/sys/conf/NOTES       Mon Jan 19 16:19:53 2009        (r18743=
7)
>>> : @@ -942,7 +942,11 @@ options  HPFS                    #OS/2 File syst=
em
>>> :  options      MSDOSFS                 #MS DOS File System (FAT, FAT32=
)
>>> :  options      NFSSERVER               #Network File System server
>>> :  options              NFSLOCKD                #Network Lock Manager
>>> : -options      NTFS                    #NT File System
>>> : +
>>> : +# NT File System. Read-mostly and it's not actively maintained.
>>> : +# For a better NTFS support consider sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port/packa=
ge.
>>> : +options      NTFS
>>> : +
>>> :  options      NULLFS                  #NULL filesystem
>>> :  # Broken (depends on NCP):
>>> :  #options     NWFS                    #NetWare filesystem
>>
>>    Uh, I got consistent panics on 7.x when mounting NTFS partitions
>> created with XP.
>>    I was creating the partition without MSDOS 8.3 short filename
>> support though. I personally think that the copy of NTFS in the kernel
>> is stale and unusable for a lot of different use-cases, to be honest..
>> -Garrett
>
> I moved 2x 320GB almost full NTFS partitions to my ZFS home server
> using mount_ntfs. ymmv ;-)

Yeah, I think the problem was either XP SP2 or the fact that I
disabled the MSDOS 8.3 charset features in the registry in Windows.

Either way, it looks like there are issues on certain architectures
according to posters on current@.

-Garrett



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