Of course, the traditional /etc/fstab can be used for fixed ntfs file systems. This assumes that you are talking about a removable device. See section 17.4 of the FreeBSD Handbook. It looks like automount in 10.2 can work with devd to handle this. The hooks in mount(8) to call mount_ntfs(8) were removed, breaking the ability to use the standard mount(8) command to mount the ntfs volume using the fuse-based ntfs-3g command. It would translate the mount_ntfs command to ntfs-3g syntax and then exec ntfs-3g. A script was provided on the gnome web page to replace mount_ntfs.
In v9, the mount command attempt to mount NTFS file systems by calling the mount_ntfs(8) command. This is most likely fall-out of the removal of the old almost read-only implementation in the base system. This is probably not an issue with HAL, ugly as HAL is.
