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Greetings i386 Port Folks:

I contacted the NetBSD webmaster regarding some discrepancies between the
sites pages and man pages.  Chris Jones sent back a very helpful reply, but
there were some points he wasn't sure about.  I hope you can help clarify
these points, please.  Below are the relevant parts of the correspondence
between he and I...

Thanks,

--Dan


-------- Original Message --------
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:04:36 -0600
From: Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org>
To: Daniel Convissor <danielc@analysisandsolutions.com>
Cc: www@netbsd.org, kim@tac.nyc.ny.us
Subject: Re: filesystems
Message-ID: <20010425100436.B5927@mt.sri.com>
Reply-To: www@netbsd.org
References: <3AE647A0.E7526028@analysisandsolutions.com>


On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:42:24PM -0400, Daniel Convissor wrote:

> OH, YES!  The FAQ and other pages say that the NTFS support is for NTFS 4
> only, but the mount_ntfs man page doesn't say anything about that.

This is one to ask about on port-i386 -- I don't know enough to be
certain about fixing this.


> One thing confused me with the write ability section on "mount_ntfs" is when
> it says:
>    [the] file must be nonresident, must not contain any holes
>    (uninitialized areas)...
> 
> I looked around the NetBSD site and the web and couln't find a definition of
> "nonresident" or "uninitialized areas."  Going directly through
> groups.google.com turned up some other unix news group messages with those
> terms in it, but some were foreign and others didn't describe the situation. 
> Any pointers to what they mean exactly would be greatly appreciated.  I can
> guess what they mean, but I don't want to be wrong.

I can't help you with "nonresident."  "Uninitialized areas," or
"holes," refer to [... snip ...]
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