MPSAFE VFS -- List of upcoming actions

Michael Butler imb at protected-networks.net
Fri Jun 29 23:23:46 UTC 2012


On 06/29/12 16:32, Attilio Rao wrote:
> As already published several times, according to the following plan:
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/NONMPSAFE_DEORBIT_VFS
> 
> in 2 months the code dealing with non-MPSAFE filesystem will be
> removed and filesystems not yet MPSAFE will be disconnected from the
> tree. Their code will be however available in our official repository
> yet for 6 months. This leaves a total time of 8 months to do actions.
> 
> Current list of unmantained filesystems is: HPFS, NWFS, PortalFS and
> XFS. Coda and SMBFS have current mantainership but the status of the
> work has still to be determined. NTFS, is being worked for the Summer
> of Code program. Finally, ReiserFS was successfully locked during this
> campaign.

What is to become of fusefs and friends, i.e. write-capable NTFS and
truecrypt?

	imb




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