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Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 23:41:37 GMT
From: Steve Davidson <stevedav@sonic.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Write capability for ntfs filesystems does not work at all.
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>Number:         80519
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [ntfs] Write capability for ntfs filesystems does not work at all.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 01 23:50:01 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Mon Dec 25 12:58:51 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Mon Dec 25 12:58:51 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Steve Davidson
>Release:        5.3-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
5.3-RELEASE    
>Description:
I am using 5.3-RELEASE.  The mount_ntfs(8) manual page states that there is limited write capability for NTFS-mounted filesystems.  I am finding that there is not write capability at all.
What is the state of writing to an NTFS filesystem on FREEBSD?
I cannot write anything whatsoever.
Does NTFS writing work on any FreeBSD system?

Here is the output of 'mount -p':
/dev/ad0s1      /m/ntfs ntfs rw 0 0

And here is what happens when I try to write to an NTFS mount, e.g.:
% date > xx
xx: No such file or directory.

Reads work fine.
     
>How-To-Repeat:
mount_ntfs -rw /dev/ntfs_partition /m/ntfs
[write 'anything' to /m/ntfs]... (Use cat, cp, shell redirect, whatever)
anything: No such file or directory.

>Fix:
Fix the kernel driver code?  
Alternatively, fix the documentation.      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Mon Dec 25 12:58:06 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
If you refer to the mount_ntfs manual page you will see the 
following: 

WRITING 
There is limited writing ability.  Limitations: file must be nonresident 
and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files 
are also not supported.  The file name must not contain multibyte charac- 
ters. 

If your files are outside of that scope, writing will not work (as you can 
see). Closing this PR since this is documented.. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80519 
>Unformatted:
