>Number:         25438
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Suggested update to the i386 FAQ
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 02 19:10:00 UTC 2004
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Gutteridge
>Release:        N/A
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>Description:
I noticed your i386 FAQ is a bit out of date where it makes reference to supported Microsoft file systems.  I've attached a suggested change to it below.  (The information on dual booting with Windows NT/2000/XP also seems to be out of date, for instance the reference to where to go to recompile the bootblock doesn't seem to match up with the actual source tree anymore, but I'd need to do more research to suggest anything there.)
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
--- faq.list~	Sun May  2 14:51:58 2004
+++ faq.list	Sun May  2 14:55:54 2004
@@ -125,9 +125,8 @@
 
 <ENTRY>ms_partition Accessing Microsoft partitions
 NetBSD supports a number of different filesystems (for a complete list see
-fstab(5.i386)) including FAT, FAT32 and NTFS4 from Microsoft. NTFS5
-was introduced silently with Windows NT 4.0 ServicePack 4 and is used by
-default in Windows 2000. NTFS5 was not supported at the time of writing.
+fstab(5.i386)) including FAT, FAT32, NTFS4, and NTFS5 from Microsoft.
+Currently only read support works reliably for NTFS filesystems.
 Long filenames are supported on both FAT and NTFS.
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