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Old 3rd September 2010
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OpenBSD doesn't support FUSE, needed by ntfs-3g, nobody's has offered to do the work.

Some basic read-only support is available, natively.. if that's not sufficient then consider maintaining the driver yourself.

I'm of the persuasion that FAT/NTFS support doesn't really belong in a Unix kernel, they typically bring in many kludges dealing with the fact that they're not really Unix filesystems.

There is a project called ntfsprogs which is like mtools, both are userland implementations of NTFS/FAT that can manipulate disk images or devices directly by providing alternative cp/ls/mv commands that don't require mounting them into the VFS hierarchy.

Someone inclined to port ntfsprogs would likely have an easier time doing so than the FUSE framework, let alone extending the kernel NTFS implementation.

Good luck, please remember that OpenBSD is not FreeBSD, and that it's not nice to troll enthusiasts anonymously.