More stable and reliable NTFS driver for read-only access?

[Mikle Krutov]

Thank you for infos!
Also, i tried to compile ntfs driver just
ten minutes ago and it not even compile
for me on 8.1-PRERELEASE with bunch
of errors.


2010/7/5, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com>:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 01:24:19PM +0000, Mikle Krutov wrote:
>> Which ntfs driver is more reliable, stable
>> and fast for read-only access, ntfs-3g or
>> kernel one?
>> Never ever had a contact with ntfs on
>> fbsd, and friend of mine asks to backup
>> his data to my machine (from ntfs hdd,
>> formated in vista, if it makes any
>> difference)
>
> I remember there being a thread last year sometime about the possibility
> of NTFS support removed from the kernel due to its age, but I forget
> what the outcome was.
>
> You're probably better off using something from ports, possibly with
> fuse.
>
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with best regards, Krutov Mikle