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Date:      Sat, 02 Jan 1999 15:19:57 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        freebsd-uk-users <freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Accessing NTFS partitions
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990102151957.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <368E1EFB.918A2BF7@uk.radan.com>

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On 02-Jan-99 Mark Ovens wrote:

> Although this is not a question, I've CC:'d this to -questions because
> of it's technical nature and because there are a lot of questions asked
> here about running FreeBSD and Win* on the same box so people may find
> it useful.

True... Especially with regard to file-sharing.
 
> Hidden away on freebsd.org there is a link to a Russian University
> website (http://iclub.nsu.ru/~semen/ntfs/ntfs.html) which has an NTFS
> driver for FreeBSD. The latest version (ntfs-releng22-0.9beta.tgz)
> works for 2.2.x and 3.x.

Heh, hidden away? He has posted to the list a few times =)

> There are a few points to note about using this driver:
> 
> You cannot build everything with a single ``make''.

True, but that has its reasons.
 
> At the moment the driver is read-only :-(, but the author, Ustimenko
> Semen, is planning to develop it to be read/write :-). Don't forget to
> mount it read-only (use the ``ro'' option in /etc/fstab).

Yeah, but both he and I never found any documentation regarding writing to NTFS
drives since MS is reluctant to hand out specs.
 
> If you think you need NTFS access I hope the above is of use to you. I
> will try and put together a step-by-step FAQ/HowTo over the next few
> days.

The driver is however set up in a way that allows easy integration into the
sourcetree... And from what I used of it, it was rock stable...

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