[RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support

[Csaba Henk]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:11:28PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Csaba Henk <csaba-ml at creo.hu> writes:
> > 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.

No, it's a different API. I don't see it would have much importance to
clone the libfuse API, because:

- If FreeBSD wants a filesystem for its own internal purposes (like a
  filesytem interface to sysctls) it can use folly.

- The huge majority of FUSE based filesystems in common use are GPL
  licensed anyway, and given this, I don't see the gain of having
  them backed with a BSD licensed library instead of a LGPL'd one.
  And they are as fine in ports as ntfs-3g is.

Csaba