Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:11:51 +0100 From: Dean Lombardo <dlombardo@excite.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ntfs committed but not added to Makefiles Message-ID: <36FF6E07.809BF8E6@excite.com>
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"David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> wrote: > > I have just cvsup'ed the latest sources (3.1-stable) and made world. > > However, looking at > > /usr/src/sbin/Makefile and /usr/src/sys/modules/Makefile, > > I don't see ntfs listed in either file! > > The NTFS bits have been brought in from -CURRENT, but the committer is > waiting for enthusiastic individuals to manually build the module > (cd /sys/modules/ntfs ; make ; make install) and mount_ntfs and report > that things are working good. Then he will add both of these bits to the > Makefiles. > > It would be great if you could do some testing and see how it works for > you. :-) I did a little bit of testing, and it worked fine for me. I have only tried *reading* files off an NTFS partition, so can't comment on the write ability. There is one limitation though - it can't read *extended* NTFS partitions (the things that people create using NT's disk administrator program). FreeBSD reports these partitions as "Extended DOS" ones, and when I tried ntfs-mounting one of them, the system crashed: savecore: reboot after panic: kmem_malloc (741859328): kmem_map too small: 9928704 total allocated I think it's okay to add NTFS to the Makefiles, provided there's a workaround that would prevent people from mounting partitions of a wrong type (including extended NTFS ones). Dean P.S. Please correct me if I'm wrong - maybe it *is* possible to mount extended NTFS partitions, it's just that I didn't find how. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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