svn commit: r187437 - head/sys/conf

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <200901191619.n0JGJrhJ015123 at svn.freebsd.org>
>            Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at 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
> : ==============================================================================
> : --- head/sys/conf/NOTES       Mon Jan 19 15:59:05 2009        (r187436)
> : +++ head/sys/conf/NOTES       Mon Jan 19 16:19:53 2009        (r187437)
> : @@ -942,7 +942,11 @@ options  HPFS                    #OS/2 File system
> :  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/package.
> : +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