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authorsobomax <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>2009-01-19 15:59:05 +0000
committersobomax <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>2009-01-19 15:59:05 +0000
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In the CAVEATS section mention the fact that the NTFS kernel support isn't
very well maintained and point user to sysutils/fusefs-ntfs, which at the time of this writing seems to be a better alternative. Suggested by: luigi MFC after: 2 weeks
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diff --git a/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8 b/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8
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@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ This utility is primarily used for read access to an NTFS volume.
See the
.Sx WRITING
section for details about writing to an NTFS volume.
+.Pp
+Apart from being read-mostly, the NTFS support in the
+.Fx
+kernel is not actively maintained. For any non-trivial use
+sysutils/fusefs-ntfs package, a more complete and better
+maintained alternative, is recommended instead.
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