Thanks for that Juha, yes I'm thinking of dual-booting scenarios, but also the ability to format an high capacity external drive without jumping through hoops.
Currently, if you want to use a high capacity external drive for read/write across Windows and OS X machines, your only option is FAT32, and neither OS X nor Windows can format drives with FAT32 above a certain partition size. (Apparently FAT32 on Linux can get around the Microsoft size limitation, but that's not a very practical option for an OS X user). Cheers Dan Dan Warne | news and online editor | APC Magazine | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://apcmag.com Address for couriers: APC Magazine, L9 175-183 Castlereagh St, Sydney ACP Magazines Limited | Publishing and Broadcasting Limited -----Original Message----- From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 11:40 AM To: Warne, Dan Subject: Re: Implementing NTFS-3g into FreeBSD On 8/2/06, Warne, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > One of my journalists recently wrote an interesting story on the > NTFS-3g project that is promising a fully OSS solution for reading > -and writing- to NTFS partitions. > > I am personally a Mac OS X user and I don't have a Linux/Unix > background so I wonder if you can advise: how viable would it be to > implement NTFS-3g into FreeBSD? > > More specifically I'm wondering whether Apple could easily implement > it into Darwin, therefore providing NTFS write support for OS X. Hi Dan, You're probably aware of the desirability to have "non GPL virus" code in FreeBSD, which makes the whole thing a lot harder to do. However, there's this project: http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/ and this http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/ whoops, no, scratch that one. :) Are you thinking about a dual-booting scenario? I've been wondering how useful things like Boot Camp are if you can't share the data on the drive between partitions. Cheers -- Juha Saarinen www.geekzone.co.nz/juha | Skype: juha_saarinen www.computerworld.co.nz | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +64 9 974 4948 _____________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this e-mail communication may be confidential. You should only read, disclose, re-transmit, copy, distribute, act in reliance on or commercialise the information if you are authorised to do so. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail communication, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail and then destroy any electronic or paper copy of this message. Any views expressed in this e-mail communication are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of ACP Magazines. ACP Magazines does not represent, warrant or guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that the communication is free of errors, virus or interference. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
