Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Dec 2000 12:01:35 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NTFS repair tools |
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 07:37:55AM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Hearing how many people trash their partition I would agree to comment out > the NTFS write option altogether. I will make a patch for both 2.4.0-testX > and 2.2.18latest and send them off to Linus/Alan over the weekend if no one > beats me to it. > > Considering that people are blatantly ignoring all our warnings this might > be the Right Thing(TM) as it is easy enough to activate the option if > someone really wants/needs to use it. That should hopefully lower the > amount of incidents with people trashing their partitions[1][2]. > > Anton > > [1] On the other hand it might not help much as people might just uncomment > it and go ahead using it, but there is a limit to how far we can go without > taking out the write part of the driver altogether! Which might actually > not be a Bad Thing(TM) were it not for the fact that having the write > support can actually help in fixing a trashed partition when people know > what they are doing...i.e. when they know what they can do safely and what > not. - It's saved me from loosing 10Gb+ of non-backed up data in the past! > > [2] My NTFS repair utility is under development albeit very slowly which > should help a little bit once I have a stable release. - Initial release is > yet TBA as there are some very strange bugs in it at the moment, which > might actually turn out to be bugs in the compiler/libc/kernel as the > program runs fine sometimes and sometimes corrupts the partitions slightly, > operating on the _exact_ same partition with the _exact_ same data on it! - > Anyway, I am not releasing this to the public before I have figured out WTH > is going on...
Anton,
I will be able to help "officially" in another 14 months, when the inevitability window is closed. Unfortunately, by then, MS will have altered the on-disk structures again, makeing the job even harder. You and Alan should Brainstorm a solution. Removing write support or putting in a disclaimer would suffice. It's your call, BTW along with Alan.
:-)
Jeff
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