online doc contradiction?

Richard Deal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Folks!

I believe I found a contradiction in you online docs, discovered while 
trying to figure out problems I'm having mounting an NTFS partition on a 
secondary hard drive. Specifically in FAQ 14.16, "Can I access data on 
filesystems other than FFS?", it states right away: "Yes. Other 
supported filesystems include: ext2 (Linux), ISO9660 and UDF (CD-ROM, 
DVD media), FAT (MS-DOS and Windows), NFS, NTFS (Windows), AmigaDOS." 
However, later in the same section there is this statement: "However, 
some are not, e.g. the NTFS support is experimental and therefore not 
included in GENERIC." This is a bit confusing. The man page for 
'mount_ntfs' states is "experimental" and "limited", but does say 
anything indicating it cannot be used. I keep getting 'Operation not 
supported' whenever I try to mount the drive/partition. My question is, 
is NTFS supported, even in a limited sense, or not?
(BTW: using version OBSD4.0) Thanks and keep up the great work!

cheers,

 - r
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