From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 29 02:57:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA24356 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 02:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from konig.elte.hu (konig.elte.hu [157.181.6.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA24305 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 02:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (sebesty@localhost) by konig.elte.hu (8.8.3/8.7.3/7s) with ESMTP id KAA23715; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:56:42 +0200 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:56:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: Zoltan Sebestyen X-Sender: sebesty@konig To: Nadav Eiron cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9my_Villeneuve?= , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting Windows NT 4 Filesystems ... (NTFS) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA24352 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sebestyen Zoltan It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up. szoli@caesar.elte.hu But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?