Quoting Rick Byers (31-Oct-01 16:27:17):

> On 31 Oct 2001, Georges Heinesch wrote:

> [...]

>> > I can read my Windows 2000
>> > NTFS partition (presumably "ntfs5") no problem under
>> > NetBSD-current.
>>
>> If Win2000 acccesses this partition, it's for sure NTFS5.
>> I guess there's no write support yet for NTFS5?
>> Do you know whether NetBSD 1.5 is able to do read NTFS5?

> There is ("limited") write support for NTFS4. Wouldn't that mean
> NetBSD could also write to NTFS5 partitions but without using any of
> the new NTFS5 features?  I haven't tried it personally (my only NTFS
> partition is my W2K boot partition, and I don't want to risk hosing
> it), but I suspect it will work fine.

> There is no difference between the mount_ntfs(8) mangpage on
> -current and
> 1.5, so I'd assume the functionality is roughly the same. There
> appear to be atleast a couple bug fixes in -current that aren't on
> the 1.5 branch, but a quick scan of CVS Log messages doesn't show
> any major functionality differences.

I never used a -current module. Can you confirm that I just have to
download the kernel source and recompile it, right?

ftp - pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current ... and then?

TIA

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