Implementing NTFS-3g into FreeBSD

[Warne, Dan]

Thanks for that Juha, yes I'm thinking of dual-booting scenarios, but
also the ability to format an high capacity external drive without
jumping through hoops. 

Currently, if you want to use a high capacity external drive for
read/write across Windows and OS X machines, your only option is FAT32,
and neither OS X nor Windows can format drives with FAT32 above a
certain partition size. (Apparently FAT32 on Linux can get around the
Microsoft size limitation, but that's not a very practical option for an
OS X user). 

Cheers
Dan


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-----Original Message-----
From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juhasaarinen at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:40 AM
To: Warne, Dan
Subject: Re: Implementing NTFS-3g into FreeBSD

On 8/2/06, Warne, Dan <DWarne at acpmagazines.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One of my journalists recently wrote an interesting story on the 
> NTFS-3g project that is promising a fully OSS solution for reading 
> -and writing- to NTFS partitions.
>
> I am personally a Mac OS X user and I don't have a Linux/Unix 
> background so I wonder if you can advise: how viable would it be to 
> implement NTFS-3g into FreeBSD?
>
> More specifically I'm wondering whether Apple could easily implement 
> it into Darwin, therefore providing NTFS write support for OS X.

Hi Dan,

You're probably aware of the desirability to have "non GPL virus" code
in FreeBSD, which makes the whole thing a lot harder to do.

However, there's this project:

http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/

and this

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/

whoops, no, scratch that one. :)

Are you thinking about a dual-booting scenario? I've been wondering how
useful things like Boot Camp are if you can't share the data on the
drive between partitions.

Cheers

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