Date: 27 Oct 2001 10:34:40 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, sreese@codysbooks.com Subject: Re: Is Support For Writing to NTFS Planned? Message-ID: <44ofmtb18f.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: sreese@codysbooks.com's message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:39:47 %2B0000 (UTC)" References: <3BD9CA02.B61950B2@codysbooks.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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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