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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:11:51 +0100
From: Dean Lombardo <dlombardo@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.


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