[ug-bosug] Read access to NTFS now possible from OpenSolaris

[Moinak Ghosh]

Hi Folks,

   There is a new project on SourceForge that brings NTFS
read-only access to OpenSolaris:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mount-ntfs

I have tried it out and it works!  The interesting part is that
this is done without writing any kernel code. This is just
a user-land process.

The trick is that the author has implemented a minimal
NFSv2 server that has the ability to read raw blocks from
a block device and interpret the raw data as per the NTFS
on-disk format. So you can use the existing NFS client
in OpenSolaris to mount this via the loopback interface.

The code is very clean, simple to follow and neatly
modular. Very suitable to quickly add read support for
ext2, reiser ...

Regards,
Moinak.