Hi Fabio, Fabio Rodrigues wrote:
Hi Alain/All,
The reason I've decided to send the e-mail is, first of all,
> to find out is there was a solution to natively support NTFS > that I wasn't aware of and second, in case there was nothing > there, to make an statement about the issue and that might be > solved in the future (hopefully soon, rater than later). > I don't believe I would be the only one to benefit from a > proper solution, and that (IMHO) would be also great for > OmniOS/illumos based distros ;-) AFAIK, (apart from Microsoft) only Tuxera has an in-kernel implementation of an NTFS driver. It is a closed-source one, which has not been adapted to Solaris and friends. (see http://www.tuxera.com)
Now, I've been trying a couple of things in the meantime as well.
> The package "ntfsprogs" (which is available in the main OmniOS repo) > provides some utils and I was able to list the files on my USB > device, but the mount option wasn't ported to OmniOS. Here is more > info about the pkg:
######################### root@gearloose:~# pkg info -r ntfsprogs Name: system/file-system/ntfsprogs Summary: ntfsprogs - Utilities that provide access to NTFS Description: ntfsprogs are utilities that provide access to and manipulation of NTFS Category: System/Administration and Configuration State: Not installed Publisher: omnios Version: 2.0.0 Build Release: 5.11 Branch: 0.151004 Packaging Date: Thu Oct 11 22:43:21 2012 Size: 831.75 kB FMRI: pkg://omnios/system/file-system/ntfsprogs@2.0.0,5.11-0.151004:20121011T224321Z
This is a very old package from a dead project. Be prepared to get into problems with 4k sector devices. It has been taken over by ntfs-3g and it is now part of the ntfs-3g releases and it has been ported to OpenIndiana. The source code and executables for OpenIndiana are available on http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html (the same source code on Tuxera at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-advanced/#download) Regards Jean-Pierre _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
