Funny thing, I haven't really *ever* used NTFS (on any OS) but couple of days ago I wanted to transfer file to NTFS partition and couldn't because the kernel lacked the driver. So instead of recompiling kernel I copied it over to USB stick also because the file was very small.
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, ropers wrote:
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.
There's also "Fuse for FreeBSD": http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/
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)).
-- Antti Harri
