I will give it a try in january, never ported a pkgsrc before, sounds interesting :-) Sdav
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Matthias Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > He, > > * Sdävtaker wrote: >> Hey, >> I keep installing DFBSD here and there and found a problem in an specific >> setup. >> It doesnt like WV64 (like everyone else...). It fails to mount_ntfs >> WV64 FSs, it doesnt show an error message, just "mounts" and show an >> empty directory. >> I remember it worked with WXP FSs and W2k FSs. >> I tried to mount it with freebsd7 and it worked. >> Is it too hard to port from FBSD? If someone give me some leads maybe > > Besides porting the FreeBSD NTFS driver (which allows only read-only access > IIRC), you could try to port FUSE to DragonFly. With NTFS-3g there is an > excellent FUSE-driver for reading/writing NTFS available. Looking into the > pkgsrc port (filesystems/fuse) and FreeBSD specific patches could be a > starting point. > > Regards > > Matthias > -- Sdävtaker prays to Rikku goddess for a good treasure.
