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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. NTFS support would help everyone. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NTFS read-write support would be a VERY big deal. It would be one less way that Microsoft isolates its customers.

  2. Re:ho hum... by eht · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well if you're going to say that, I've had NTFS 4/5 read/write support in Windows 2000 for about 3 years(NT4 sp6a has read/write support for NTFS 5 also), so I guess that makes Windows 2000 and NT4 at least 3 times better than Linux.

  3. read only? by Drakon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't see any references to writing.

    I don't tihnk anyone can write to these damn things...

    *shrug* basically, I don't see any reason to run a secure OS (openbsd) on the same machine as -blech- windows, so this has very little use (ie, moving a drive to another machine when the original machine can't read it, etc)

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  4. Re:NTFS is hardly crap. by evilviper · · Score: 4, Insightful
    NTFS is a modern, mature, stable, fully journalled file system.

    All technically true, but that's the effect if you are so incredibly vague.

    NTFS is slow... very slow when compared to other "modern" filesystems. It is a journaled fs, yet a chkdsk takes quite a long time.

    Few people really know what they're talking about when they discuss NTFS.

    Can't speak for those "few people", but I do know what I'm talking about.

    Did you know it supports hard linking

    Yes, it has a very nasty and clumsy method that allows it to create links.

    Did you know it can encrypt and decrypt files on the fly for instant access?

    Yes I did, but just about every filesystem on the planet is decent enough that encryption can be layered on-top of it without any problem.

    No one can boot Knoppix and overwrite your SAM

    Would you like to bet on that??? Up to about Windows 2000 SP2, I have booted up with a Linux disc, changed the Admin password, edited the registry, etc. Besides that, even if Microsoft had done their job adequately (which they haven't), the value of that feature is questionable. Also note that other OSes have better forms of that feature, that aren't problematic, and don't have the limitations.

    Anyway, leave it to Slashdot to find some jerk who says NTFS is crap because it's a Microsoft product.

    The wording of most of your post sounds like it was pulled directly from a press release ("NTFS is a modern, mature, stable, fully journalled file system. It's got POSIX compliance, and it's got room built in for improvement."), and you say I'm biased? Give me a break. It sounds like you are in support of NTFS just BECAUSE it is a Microsoft product.

    I call shenagins on you.
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