# [OmniOS-discuss] [OpenIndiana-discuss] [smartos-discuss] Re: Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS

Fabio Rodrigues fabior at gmx.net
Fri Jan 4 14:01:03 EST 2013

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    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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     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 at 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) Regards Jean-Pierre _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss at openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

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