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Old 27th October 2008
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
I wouldn't use it though, it's marked experimental..
The real story is that the developer who developed the NTFS driver left the OpenBSD project many years ago, & to date, no one has fully taken on ownership of the code. This isn't unique to the OpenBSD project either. Most NTFS support offered by non-Microsoft operating systems is simply an attempt at providing a minimal level of compatibility usually based upon an older version of NTFS.

If one does enable NTFS support in OpenBSD, expect to merely read from NTFS partitions. Writing to NTFS partitions can crash execution to corrupt data.
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if you want to use BSD, just forget about NTFS, it's a horrible file system.
The remainder of the real story is that Microsoft continually tweaks NTFS with each new release of Windows. This is why the Samba project & companies such as EMC & Network Appliance are continually checking their external storage products to see if they are still compliant to Microsoft's moving target. Is it particularly horrible? No, it is more accurate to say that all the details are not available to those not wearing an employee badge sporting the Microsoft logo.
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