On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, M. Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>> In message: <200901191619.n0jgjrhj015...@svn.freebsd.org>
>>            Maxim Sobolev <sobo...@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 ;-)


-- 
Joao Barros
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