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NTFS Support For OpenBSD

Posted by timothy on from the sacred-and-profane dept.

Dan writes "Julien Bordet has ported code from NetBSD to support NTFS4 and NTFS5 in OpenBSD-current. He has heavily tested read accesses to his Windows 2000 partition, and that has worked fine. Julien says that there is an existing port, but his port is new and adds NTFS5 support."

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  1. ho hum... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I've had NTFS 4/5 read access in Linux for at least a year now. How is this news?

    1. Re:ho hum... by Cold+Drink · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Perhaps if the quality of the compared operating systems was based on how well they read and write to/from NTFS partitions, your smart remark might actualy be true. However, since things such as security, stability, robustness and TCO are generaly included in any serious comparisin, Windows 2000 isn't "...3 times better than Linux." The real signifigance here (and why it is news) is that OpenBSD couldn't mount NTFS partitions in the past, and now it can. It makes migration easier.

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      -Cold Drink