[RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Csaba Henk <csaba-ml at creo.hu> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > How much work would you guess it would take to reimplement the
> > userland part under a BSD license?
> Well, I just started to work on a from scratch FUSE daemon library.
> [...]
> So I think: fuse4bsd (ie, the kld + the mount util) + libfolly + sysctl
> fs could go to base under BSD license. It also might make sense to rebase
> ntfs-3g atop of folly -- although it won't help ntfs-3g being GPL'd.

That doesn't matter; ntfs-3g can still be a port.

What does matter is that if libfolly exports the same API as libfuse, we
can have a complete BSD-licensed FUSE implementation in the base system,
with minimal effort required to port FUSE-based file systems.

DES
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