As reported by HaikuNews and IsComputerOn, developer Gerasim “_3dEyes**” Troeglaszov has released an unexpected treat for the BeOS community: an NTFS driver with exerimpental write support. NTFS, the filesystem used in current versions of Windows, has been readable in BeOS since at least R4.5 – but until now there has been no way to create or edit files on an NTFS volume from within BeOS. Shortly after the release of the driver for R5 systems, details were posted on ICO about a version for Haiku.

The software is reported to be quite stable and doesn’t contain any known bugs, but as it is an early test version, the developer doesn’t recommend using the driver with partitions that contain important data. So if you like to live dangerously – or if you don’t mind creating an NTFS image file to test with – install the package, do some testing, and report any bugs you find to Gerasim.

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