In article <1038520383.3de6903f1e9fa@webmail.student.kun.nl>,
Peter. Bex <Peter.Bex@student.kun.nl> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list, but maybe you can help me.
>
>On my system there are 3 NTFS partitions for Win2000 and a normal NetBSD
>partition.
>I've added the NTFS partitions to the disklabel with mbrlabel (using NetBSD-1.6,
>but the kernel I'm using now is -CURRENT), and I can mount the NTFS volumes
>without problems.
>When I start writing to any NTFS volume, strange things happen: The program that
>is performing the disk request simply won't react anymore, or with a "rm -rf
>foo" the kernel panics:

Do not write to the ntfs filesystem unless you want to turn it into mush.
Write support is just missing. The only write support that is there is
to write on already allocated blocks, and even that is not well tested.
To be safe, I always mount ntfs read-only.

christos