RW support for NTFS in SL

[coolquasar]

Hi,

I came across that the SL build 10a190 has native read/write support and the final supposed GM 10a432 doesnt have the RW support for NTFS drives.

I am jus thinkin if the changes can be ported from 10a190 to 10a432.
Please suggest me if such a thing would really work?

If so, could any one upload the following files from the 10a190 SL build and PM me the links

Navigate to: Contents of OSInstall.mpkg/Contents of EssentialSystemSoftware/Contents of EssentialSystemSoftwareGroup/Contents of BaseSystem.pkg
from this package select those files:

/System/Library/Extensions/ntfs.kext   (and/or) /System/Library/Extensions/ntfs-rw.kext

/System/Library/Filesystems/ntfs.fs
/sbin/mount_ntfs
/sbin/fstyp_ntfs

This would be really helpful to bring native NTFS read/write support
Any help in this regards will greatly be appreciated!!!!

Thanks in advance.

 

[MikeDTyke]

MacFUSE has gotten a lot more stable, why put yourself through the pain of hacking SL support back in?

 

[MacDawg]

MacFUSE has gotten a lot more stable, why put yourself through the pain of hacking SL support back in?

Agreed

I use NTFS-3G with no issues at all and it is free

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[mmoran27]

How fast are these?

I tried one of these, I think macfuse and it was extremely slow to copy gigabytes of data.

 

[coolquasar]

I have tested MacFuse and NTFS-3G.

MacFuse doesnt have great transfer speeds, especially when u have multiple files and large gigs of data

NTFS-3G corrupted my NTFS drive, that I lost all the files in "My Documents" in windows. It was a costly fail. I cant take it any more time...

Moreover, I trust Apple implementation of RW support in NTFS drives.

If any of u have the 10a190 SL build, please the upload and PM me the link for the files i have mentioned in the first thread....

thanks in advance

 

[Riemann Zeta]

Besides, NTFS-3g doesn't support the real x64 kernel in 10.6. I really wish that Apple hadn't sh*tcanned proper NTFS support after the earliest betas.

 

[NSK123]

I have a bunch of NTFS drives laying around and I can honestly say that macFUSE isn't that good, It's kinda unstable when you try transfering hundreds o' Gigs data around which isn't viable for most people

I have personally found that Paragon's "NTFS for MacOSX 7.0" is ALOT better and just as stable as when you transfer files in windows, and it is in fact faster than macfuse as far as I have concluded.
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

 

[MadMonkey]

I have a bunch of NTFS drives laying around and I can honestly say that macFUSE isn't that good, It's kinda unstable when you try transfering hundreds o' Gigs data around which isn't viable for most people

I have personally found that Paragon's "NTFS for MacOSX 7.0" is ALOT better and just as stable as when you transfer files in windows, and it is in fact faster than macfuse as far as I have concluded.
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

+1
Although it will be interesting to see what Apple comes up with for Snow Leopard.

 

[coolquasar]

But, since the native RW support for NTFS has been removed in 10a432 SL build, it could be that, Apple may not ship the disc with NTFS RW support...So am jus thinking of porting the changes frm 10a190 to 10a432...

Any help in this regards will be great...
If ppl are interested, may be we could join n try out things...

 

[coolquasar]

Hey ppl,

I am tryin to port the NTFS RW support from 10a190 build to 10a432 SL build

I downloaded the 10a190 SL build and did the following..Â*

Used pacifist to open the OSInstall.mpkg from the SL image file

Then navigated to Contents of EssentialSystemSoftware/Contents of EssentialSystemSoftwareGroup/Contents of BaseSystem.pkg

installed the below files from the pkg onto the appropriate locations

/System/Library/Extensions/ntfs.kext
/System/Library/Filesystems/ntfs.fs
/sbin/mount_ntfs
/sbin/fstyp_ntfs

(Took a backup of the existing versions of the above mentioned files)


Then restarted the system. But then found that the NTFS drive wasnt mounted.

Then i opened the disk utility and tried to mount it manually. But it failed by poppin up the following message

The disk “disk0s4� could not be mounted.

Try running First Aid on the disk and then retry mounting.

Then i ran the ntfs.util command and got the following error message

command: ./ntfs.util -m disk0s4 /Volumes removable writable suid dev

/System/Library/Extensions/ntfs.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) dependency resolution failure; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
./ntfs.util: /sbin/kextload command failed: Too many levels of remote in path
/System/Library/Extensions/ntfs.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) dependency resolution failure; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
/sbin/mount_ntfs: /sbin/kextload command failed: Too many levels of remote in path
mount_ntfs: Failed to load NTFS file system kext.
./ntfs.util: /sbin/mount command failed: Too many levels of remote in path

Strangely enough, when i chk the info from the disk utility it says:Â*

File System : 	Windows NT File System (NTFS)
Â*Connection Bus : 	SATA
Â*Device Tree : 	IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/SATA@B/PRT0@0/PMP@0
Â*[b]Writable : 	Yes[/b]

Just that, it is unable to mount the drive.Â*

It will be great if anyone can research on this, so that RW support for NTFS drives can be ported to 10a432 build.

Thanks in advance