Dan Shoop skrev 2011-02-19 21.02:
On Feb 13, 2011, at 5:16 PM, snowshed wrote:
I want to be able to read and write to external hard drives that are
formatted in NTFS.
Operating systems involved... OS X 10.6.6, Windows XP Pro, Windows
Vista Ultimate, at this time.
I am not a programmer in any way... I don't want to build, compile,
glue, staple, nail, screw, do anything to have to create the necessary
files here. I just want to download and install. The fun and
interest in doing that went away 15 years ago. I simply want to turn
my computers on and use them. LOL
I have downloaded and installed the latest MacFUSE package.
In simple steps, where to I go from here?
MacFUSE is a framework for building user land filesystems. It doesn't do
anything on its own.
There are some FUSE filesystems for NTFS but they're not exactly robust and
good performers and not for total novices.
I disagree. First of all a user-space file system is inherently more
robust than a kernel-based one, since any programming errors in the file
system are isolated from the rest of the system.
Second: if written properly, performance is not distinguishable from a
kernel based one (at least not on today's systems). You do however lack
some of the tools that the kernel provides which makes it harder in some
cases (especially disk-based file systems where caching must be dealt
with outside the kernel).
And third: Have you even tried out NTFS-3G (
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/search/label/Releases )? Click, install,
finished. So it's as much for 'total novices' as any file system driver.
- Erik
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