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To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, sreese@codysbooks.com
Subject: Re: Is Support For Writing to NTFS Planned?
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From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
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sreese@codysbooks.com (Scott Reese) writes:

> Hi all, I was just wondering if there were any plans to improve the
> driver for mounting NTFS partitions on FreeBSD?  I just read the man
> page and it's over 2 years old, so I wondered if maybe nobody was
> working on it.  Most of the time I don't need to write anything to the
> partition (just read), but it would be nice.  :)
> 
> I would also be interested to know why this particular driver is only
> able to achieve read-only status.  Are there severe technical hurtles or
> is it simply a lack of time/interest?  I found a few things in the
> archives, but there was nothing really concrete in there that I could
> find.

Nobody seems to be working on it.  Ustimenko Semen has been keeping it
working, but as far as I can see there's no active development going on.

The main trick with features like this is that you're trying to keep up
with a moving target.  read-only, at least, can't lose any of your data.

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