Re: NTFS write access from FreeBSd

From: Christopher Nehren (apeiron+usenet_at_coitusmentis.info)
Date: 09/29/05 

Date: 28 Sep 2005 22:21:46 GMT

On 2005-09-27, "james <at> hal-pc.org" scribbled these
curious markings (which I properly wrapped):
> another solution would be to make the drive EXT2. there are
> drivers for Windows that allow it read/write to EXT2 (as it is
> written by O.S. developers and based on open software) and
> FreeBSD supports it just fine as well. hope that helps.

If you're going to do that, why don't you use a filesystem which
is actually written well and under an acceptable license, like
UFS2? There's a UFS driver available for Widows. Search
SourceForge for ufsdrv.

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren 

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