Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:29:01 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> Subject: Re: rw access to ntfs Message-ID: <42C2E86D.7090304@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20050629173913.O72767@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <200506291316.02373.ben@spooty.net> <ac29423a0506290522338d4b79@mail.gmail.com> <200506291326.37753.ben@spooty.net> <42C2AB3E.5010003@dial.pipex.com> <20050629173913.O72767@maren.thelosingend.net>
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Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: >* Alex Zbyslaw [2005-06-29 15:07 +0100] > > >> Perhaps you could ask Microsoft to provide support in Windows for >> accessing any kind of filesystem other than their own. ;-) >> >> > >http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ > >Will let you mount a ffs filesystem on Windows. >Not sure how well tested it is, though > > Even flippant comments bring results :-) Thanks for the info. Ben Paley wrote: >I'll have a look... > >...but frankly the very idea terrifies me. Let Winxp loose on my fbsd >partition? > ><shudders> > > Well, it's a sourceforge project, so it isn't by Microsoft. If you're concerned about data integrity, then you could try: 1) Mount only one shared FreeBSD partition using this software and 2) Make this partition on a separate disk slice (or even disk) from your regular system. It's either that or FAT32 (with no real concept of file ownership, file permissions, or ability to change times). --Alex
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