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

Ronald Klop ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Wed Jul 7 17:30:06 UTC 2010


On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:24:19 +0200, Mikle Krutov <nekoexmachina at gmail.com>  
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 used the kernel one with FreeBSD 7 to backup a NTFS partition. I  
wouldn't know why it wouldn't work in FreeBSD 8.
Why don't you just try it?

Ronald.


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