I don't know what the difference is between ntfs4 and 5, but NetBSD
doesn't appear to make a distinction.  I can read my Windows 2000 NTFS
partition (presumably "ntfs5") no problem under NetBSD-current.  The ntfs
read support is supposed to be very stable (although I have crashed my
machine by experimenting with some of the attribute access stuff).

According to the mount_ntfs manpage, there is "limited support for
writing" (although the limitations seem minor),  but it isn't extensively
tested.  I mount my ntfs partition read-only for now, just to be safe.

Rick

On 30 Oct 2001, Georges Heinesch wrote:

> Date: 30 Oct 2001 20:47:12 +0100
> From: Georges Heinesch <geohei-ml@geohei.lu>
> To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Does i386 support NTFS5 now?
>
> The i386 FAQs say that the filesystem BTFS5 was not supported at the
> time the FAQ was written. The kernel source says NTFS4 experimental.
>
> Can someone tell me the current state.
>
> I presume ... NTFS4 - read only
>               NTFS5 - not supported at all ?!
>
> Is that correct?
>
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