On 06/02/2008, STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some time now, I've been using the NTFS code in GENERIC. Lately > I've been subjected to an ever increasing number of Windows Sheep who > have infected themselves. My proceedure these days is to take the disk > out of the machine and stuff it into mine, mount it and extract data > before scrubbing the mindless thing and starting over... > > From my experience NTFS read-only access to disks has been flawless. > I think the largest amount of data I've extracted has been about 70G. > Given that XP systems essentially demand NTFS, having the ability to > read it is crucial when dealing with the hapless. > > I'd like to suggest that NTFS be enabled by default in GENERIC; > I realize that it can't be in the boot media because of size, but for > general work not having to compile a non-standard kernel would be a > win for a lot of people. Making it read-only as the default would > be the way to do it. > > If anyone has had a disaster reading NTFS data I'd like to hear it.
Apologies for my clueless question, just curious here: Does anyone know where that NTFS support code for OpenBSD hails from? I'm just asking because I know that on the Linux side there's NTFS-3G ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G ), which is stable and allows safe NTFS reading and writing. OTOH, NTFS-3G is base on FUSE, wich AFAIK doesn't exist for OpenBSD. NetBSD has PUFFS which according to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace ) is their FUSE-equivalent and they apparently support NTFS-3G with that. A mature NTFS read/write ability does seem like a useful thing to me, so I wonder where the OpenBSD NTFS code stems from ((and whether there might be anyybody (qualified) interested in making the NTFS-3G code work under OpenBSD)). Thanks and kind regards, --ropers
