Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:33:01 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@mofo.frt.dec.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting Windows NT 4 Filesystems ... (NTFS) Message-ID: <199708291233.MAA00752@mofo.frt.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Zoltan Sebestyen <sebesty@cs.elte.hu> of Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:56:41 %2B0200.
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Zoltan Sebestyen writes: > On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Rémy Villeneuve wrote: > > > > > Hi... > > > > > > I'd like to know if it is possible to mount a WinNT filesystem on > > > FreeBSD? And also to know if long filename support will come soon for > > > '95/NT filenames... > > > > There's no support for NTFS currently (nor will there probably be anytime > > soon). I vaugly recall someone talking about long filenames in FAT > > partitions, so someone might be working on it (it is not supported *yet* > > through). > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Remy Villeneuve > > > > > Nadav > > > > About 4 months ago I proposed an alternate solution, but no one was > interested in it. There's a little program called vmount for > NeXTStep/OpenStep (they're BSD, too) so it wouldn't be a big job to port > it to FreeBSD. With it you can mount any filesystem that a Linux can do( > even NTFS). Its source code is available and it requires the include and > the fs subtree of a 2.x Linux kernel to compile. > make a port out of it ? Or did you already do that and it was ignored ? --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) garyj@muc.de (play) gj@freebsd.org
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