Hi Jean-Pierre,

 Hmmm, that's makes sense about the NTFS being a closed-source implementation, 
so that's why it's not present yet.

 Since the two packages haven't worked properly and, as you have pointed out, 
they're old, it's enough good reason for me to remove them. Giving a try with 
ntfs-3g soon ;-)

 I'll let you know.

 Cheers,
 Fabio
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Von: Jean-Pierre
Gesendet: 04.01.13 18:20 Uhr
An: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [OmniOS-discuss] [smartos-discuss] Re: Mount 
NTFS USB under OmniOS

 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) 
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