Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:44:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support Message-ID: <slrnftf9fi.1m0l.vadim_nuclight@hostel.avtf.net> References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Attilio Rao! On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:00:41 +0100; Attilio Rao wrote about '[RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support': > 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, occasionally. And I had scenarios when I was needed it withput Internet access, FUSE, etc. > - Are you interested in maintaining it? Not in 8.0 timeline :) > - Do you know a good reason to not use FUSE ntfs implementation? What > the kernel counter part adds? Localization: ntfs-3g requires UTF-8 as the only locale. And FreeBSD is not good in supporting UTF-8 everywhere (syscons, ufs2, etc.), while kernel part supports recoding to current locale's codepage. Valuable for people with non Latin-1 set. > - Do you think axing the kernel support a good idea? No. It was said about FAT32 as most popular FS for file exchange, look at that new USB flash devices with 4G+ sizes. People want to store 4G+ size files on them (e.g. DVD images), so I've already seen some of them formatted to NTFS instead of FAT32. Having support for them out of the box is good. -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181 mailto:vadim_nuclight@mail.ru [Moderator of RU.ANTI-ECOLOGY][FreeBSD][http://antigreen.org][LJ:/nuclight]
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