[RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support

[Attilio Rao]

2008/2/9, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com>:
> On 2/8/08, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>  > Robert Watson wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  > On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  >>> - Are you interested in maintaining it?
>  >  >>
>  >  >> Yes.  If you can throw the buglist for NTFS on me, I will be very
>  >  >> grateful.
>  >  >
>  >  > Sign the man up :-).
>  >
>  >
>  > Sounds good to me. I've posted on -current several times since
>  >  December with crash dumps, etc. I think the problem at this point is
>  >  that we don't know what the bugs are, or else I suspect at least some
>  >  of them would be fixed already.
>  >
>
> I believe I have solved the panics with the NTFS filesystem by porting
>  the NetBSD lockmgr -> mutex locking changes to our NTFS filesystem
>  implementation.
>
>  The locking changes are available in PR 120483
>
>   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120483
>
>  I have also submitted a style change PR which will allow us to easily
>  compare the NetBSD implementation to our NTFS implementation in PR
>  120482:
>
>   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120482

Scot,
why didn't you modify the patch in a way it reduces diffs against our
HEAD as I suggested privately? :(

Attilio


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