svn commit: r187436 - head/sbin/mount_ntfs

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <200901191559.n0JFx5Dc014686 at svn.freebsd.org>
            Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: 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

I'd not MFC this.  The 7.0 version worked a lot better for me than the
fusefs-ntfs last time I had to do some non-trivial data recovery.  The
former just worked in the face of an insane number of read errors.
The latter paniced the system frequently.

Warner

: 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
: