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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 ?

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