Shawn Walker wrote: > W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > >>> - So far I am working half the time using Ubuntu 8.04 >>> and the other half >>> using OS 2008.11 pre-release and I use an USB hard >>> drive to transfer things >>> from Linux to OpenSolaris (vice versa doesn't work so >>> far as I yet have to >>> find a file system to support large files _and_ be >>> writable from both >>> systems - ext3 so far isn't ...). >>> >> This is a very good point. I have always wondered why we still couldn't >> write on NTFS partitions. >> > > Software patents? > >
No... NTFS-3g doesn't have very many people testing/developing it for OpenSolaris. They do not use any of the code which is patented and it uses FUSE purposely to avoid kernel linking problems (Licensing). Works on FreeBSD, FUSE itself works (Basically) on Solaris/OpenSolaris, but NTFS-3g isn't really supported. Sun being scared is part of the problem, but the community can work together and deliver a working build since there is a demand is Sun's legal team keep stagnating progress. There is no options available for cross-platform "big" file system support under OpenSolaris. The NTFS for Solaris driver works, but is extremely buggy (and could kill your files) while NTFS-3g is proven, is integrated with openSUSE with Novell's approval. James
