svn commit: r187437 - head/sys/conf

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:52:28 -0800
Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> mentioned:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > In message: <200901191619.n0JGJrhJ015123 at svn.freebsd.org>
> >            Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > : Author: sobomax
> > : Date: Mon Jan 19 16:19:53 2009
> > : New Revision: 187437
> > : URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187437
> > :
> > : Log:
> > :   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
> >
> > Again, I'd not MFC this to 6.x for sure and maybe not even to 7.x
> > since ntfs works well there.
> >
> > Warner
> >
> > : Modified:
> > :   head/sys/conf/NOTES
> > :
> > : Modified: head/sys/conf/NOTES
> > : ==============================================================================
> > : --- head/sys/conf/NOTES       Mon Jan 19 15:59:05 2009        (r187436)
> > : +++ head/sys/conf/NOTES       Mon Jan 19 16:19:53 2009        (r187437)
> > : @@ -942,7 +942,11 @@ options  HPFS                    #OS/2 File system
> > :  options      MSDOSFS                 #MS DOS File System (FAT, FAT32)
> > :  options      NFSSERVER               #Network File System server
> > :  options              NFSLOCKD                #Network Lock Manager
> > : -options      NTFS                    #NT File System
> > : +
> > : +# NT File System. Read-mostly and it's not actively maintained.
> > : +# For a better NTFS support consider sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port/package.
> > : +options      NTFS
> > : +
> > :  options      NULLFS                  #NULL filesystem
> > :  # Broken (depends on NCP):
> > :  #options     NWFS                    #NetWare filesystem
> 
>     Uh, I got consistent panics on 7.x when mounting NTFS partitions
> created with XP.
>     I was creating the partition without MSDOS 8.3 short filename
> support though. I personally think that the copy of NTFS in the kernel
> is stale and unusable for a lot of different use-cases, to be honest..

But it works well for a lot of cases (e.g. works fine for me on current
with Vista NTFS) and much better in some situations than fuse. Thus the
latter can't replace its functionality fully.

We'd better fix bugs you're experiencing (btw I haven't seen any with ntfs
driver so far).

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Stanislav Sedov
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