svn commit: r187436 - head/sbin/mount_ntfs

Maxim Sobolev sobomax at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 19 07:59:06 PST 2009


Author: sobomax
Date: Mon Jan 19 15:59:05 2009
New Revision: 187436
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187436

Log:
  In the CAVEATS section mention the fact that the NTFS kernel support isn't
  very well maintained and point user to sysutils/fusefs-ntfs, which
  at the time of this writing seems to be a better alternative.
  
  Suggested by:	luigi
  
  MFC after:	2 weeks

Modified:
  head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8

Modified: head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8
==============================================================================
--- head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8	Mon Jan 19 15:38:26 2009	(r187435)
+++ head/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8	Mon Jan 19 15:59:05 2009	(r187436)
@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ This utility is primarily used for read 
 See the
 .Sx WRITING
 section for details about writing to an NTFS volume.
+.Pp
+Apart from being read-mostly, the NTFS support in the
+.Fx
+kernel is not actively maintained.  For any non-trivial use
+sysutils/fusefs-ntfs package, a more complete and better
+maintained alternative, is recommended instead.
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm


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