svn commit: r187437 - head/sys/conf

[Garrett Cooper]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:22 AM, João Barros <joao.barros at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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..
>> -Garrett
>
> I moved 2x 320GB almost full NTFS partitions to my ZFS home server
> using mount_ntfs. ymmv ;-)

Yeah, I think the problem was either XP SP2 or the fact that I
disabled the MSDOS 8.3 charset features in the registry in Windows.

Either way, it looks like there are issues on certain architectures
according to posters on current at .

-Garrett