[Novalug] Welcome Back (PLEASE READ)

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 4 19:56:21 EST 2006


On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:58:23 -0500 (EST)
"Jay Hart" <jhart at kevla.org> wrote:

> > Jay,
> >
> > this looks like a nice product. Having said that, when I checked out the
> > user documentation for version 0.65 I found that it contains the
> > following caveats with respect to NTFS formatted
> > Drives/Directories/Files.  As I think about it, it is not clear to me
> > what value there is in having NTFS capabilities in a NAS if there is no
> > way to write to such drives/directories. Perhaps additional NTFS support
> > is planned for a future revision.
> 
> Umm, I think I used a UFS formatted drive. Not sure though about that. Whatever I used, I was able
> to write a file and read the file back using W2k.
> 
> I used the two-disk install.

Our NTFS driver (in FreeBSD) is awful.  I've made a change recently
but it only fixes link counts, mainly for samba.  But that still has
not provided us with flawless RW to NTFS formatted partitions/drives.

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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