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Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support
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Eric Anderson wrote:
> I think Alfred's point is really interesting.  How many people that 
> don't use it that say 'axe it' does it take to override 1 person saying 
> 'keep it!'?

The real question is how many people does it take to say 'I'll maintain
it'?  Just one.  Without it, it will only bitrot as evidenced by Attilios
question.  NTFS is currently broken, just not as obvious because WITNESS
didn't track and enforce lockmgr locks.

-- 
Andre