svn commit: r241636 - in head: etc/mtree include lib/libprocstat rescue/rescue sbin sbin/mount share/dict share/man/man7 sys/boot/forth sys/conf sys/geom/label sys/kern sys/mips/rmi sys/modules sys...

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, October 18, 2012 6:47:54 am Attilio Rao wrote:
> On 10/18/12, Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On (17/10/2012 11:30), Attilio Rao wrote:
> >> Author: attilio
> >> Date: Wed Oct 17 11:30:00 2012
> >> New Revision: 241636
> >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/241636
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>   Disconnect non-MPSAFE NTFS from the build in preparation for dropping
> >>   GIANT from VFS. This code is particulary broken and fragile and other
> >>   in-kernel implementations around, found in other operating systems,
> >>   don't really seem clean and solid enough to be imported at all.
> >>   If someone wants to reconsider in-kernel NTFS implementation for
> >>   inclusion again, a fair effort for completely fixing and cleaning it
> >>   up is expected.
> >>
> > [...]
> >
> > Why not to keep glabel ntfs support? I find it very useful on its own
> > and it seems to require only a few constants and structs from ntfs.h
> >
> 
> I think that we just want to support FreeBSD specifically supported
> filesystems for this?
> I will talk to pjd and see what he thinks.

Eh, I think handling volume labels for other filesystems is not a bad idea.  
For example, we support labels from ISO-9660 filesystems which isn't a 
FreeBSD-specific filesystem.

-- 
John Baldwin