From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 29 03:39:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA25807 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 03:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail13.digital.com (mail13.digital.com [192.208.46.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA25798 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 03:39:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cssmuc.frt.dec.com (cssmuc.frt.dec.com [16.186.96.161]) by mail13.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) with SMTP id GAA04253 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 06:34:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com by cssmuc.frt.dec.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Nov95-0232PM) id AA04152; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:34:07 +0200 Received: from mofo.frt.dec.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mofo.frt.dec.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00752 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:33:02 GMT Message-Id: <199708291233.MAA00752@mofo.frt.dec.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from Zoltan Sebestyen of Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:56:41 +0200. Reply-To: gjennejohn@frt.dec.com Subject: Re: Mounting Windows NT 4 Filesystems ... (NTFS) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:33:01 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA25801 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Zoltan Sebestyen writes: > On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Rémy Villeneuve wrote: > > > > > Hi... > > > > > > I'd like to know if it is possible to mount a WinNT filesystem on > > > FreeBSD? And also to know if long filename support will come soon for > > > '95/NT filenames... > > > > There's no support for NTFS currently (nor will there probably be anytime > > soon). I vaugly recall someone talking about long filenames in FAT > > partitions, so someone might be working on it (it is not supported *yet* > > through). > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Remy Villeneuve > > > > > Nadav > > > > About 4 months ago I proposed an alternate solution, but no one was > interested in it. There's a little program called vmount for > NeXTStep/OpenStep (they're BSD, too) so it wouldn't be a big job to port > it to FreeBSD. With it you can mount any filesystem that a Linux can do( > even NTFS). Its source code is available and it requires the include and > the fs subtree of a 2.x Linux kernel to compile. > make a port out of it ? Or did you already do that and it was ignored ? --- Gary Jennejohn (work) gjennejohn@frt.dec.com (home) garyj@muc.de (play) gj@freebsd.org