It's not true that external drives need to be formatted exFAT, unless you plan to share them between systems. You’ll have to use something like macFUSE. In a similar vein, could we have the port install the wiki's mount_ntfs script somewhere? It would avoid (error-prone) copy+paste steps for users, who would symlink it when desired, and allow Macports to version the thing.Macos doesn’t support many Linux file system formats. I believe Homebrew patches it in, and it is not provided by the ntfs-3g package proper. I don't use Homebrew, so I can't tell where that comes from. ![]() and show Homebrew providing a mount_ntfs script. It looks like we have to wait until osxfuse 3.0 is released and makes its way into macports. Looks like that will be fixed in osxfuse 3.0: This results in creation of a new folder in /Volumes/ with the name "%MOUNT_POINT_NAME 1", "%MOUNT_POINT_NAME 2". Replying to to the script in the wiki, the mount point is not removed anymore after unmount. Then we get a mount where streams should work(?) and the volume shows up as a network device on the desktop (if enabled as a preference in finder). So to summarize: remove local, add streams_interface=openxattr are the changes to be made to the existing patch. Since I haven't dealt with ntfs streams yet, I cannot say anything about them. ![]() So you (or Tuxera) suggest(s) adding streams_interface=openxattr to the mount options? If so, let's do it. I am wondering whether EAs are useable for most people though, I'm not used to working with them nor alternate streams. The docs seem to suggest that unless that is used, auto_xattr would not work as expected. ![]() Replying to Tuxera's documentation regarding EAs suggests that if you use auto_xattr, then you could expose streams through streams_interface=openxattr. But at least it can be shown on the desktop as a remote drive, which is better than nothing. Unfortunately as per macfuse faq 4.3, there is no way to show up the volume in finder's sidebar then. This might not what most people want, no? There is however a suggestion to make the Finder show networked volumes, perhaps this should be notified to the user during install. Doing so would cause creation of various OS X-specific directories, for instance, just because you mounted the volume. Replying to patch file seems to be fine however, I don't think we should automatically set local as per question 4.1 in the MacFUSE FAQ. I could think of this solution provided as port-variants of ntfs-3g ("+auto_mount=enables auto_mount by ntfs-3g", "+show_in_finder=shows mounts in finder BUT disables ntfs xattr") I'm now using a special "mount_ntfs"-shell-script with the provided volname-patch - and my ntfs-automounts show up in finder.Īnyone with some knowledge about filesystems/ntfs-3g/macfuse can say something this approach? Is "streams_interface=none" really needed? See that directed me to the solution (and also why i think "streams_interface=none" should be used - but i have to little knowledge of ntfs(-3g) and macfuse if it is really necessary)
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