[RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Thu Feb 14 12:32:11 UTC 2008


Csaba Henk <csaba-ml at creo.hu> writes:
> So then, just to clean up more implicit principles: also you mean that
> LGPL'd code can't go to the base system unless absolutely necessary?

I mean that we shouldn't if a suitable BSD-licensed alternative exists.

> Regarding your assumption: I think it's not true. The only thing that
> the lib and the module have in common is the header fuse_kernel.h which
> defines the data structures and constants used in the kernel/userspace
> protocol.

If those data structures and constants change, the port would have to
deal with supporting multiple FreeBSD versions simultaneously.

DES
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