Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux NTFS Vista compatibility (was: Re: [2.6-GIT] NTFS: Release 2.1.24.) | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Date | Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:18:30 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:13 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Sunday 25 September 2005 23:35, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > Alistair, any result? > > > > > > > Note you will need to try the ntfs driver itself and not ntfscp as > > > > libntfs does not have these changes yet hence ntfscp will not work just > > > > the same (it does not use the kernel driver at all, it only uses > > > > libntfs). > > > > > > The latest ntfsprogs CVS has also these changes and every tool should > > > work fine with Vista (ntfscp, ntfsresize, ntfsundelete, ntfsclone, etc). > > > > I have limited access to the beta, as it expires every 30 days and forces > > me to reinstall it. I promise to get back to all of you after 2.6.14 is > > released with the LogFile changes. > > > > To clarify, I did not leave the Vista NTFS volume in an inconsistent state. > > I even forced a chkdsk, rebooted, let it run through, then attempted again > > to mount it with the NTFS code in 2.6.13. This categorically fails. > > I was free today, so I built a 2.6.14-rc4 kernel on the machine with the > Longhorn NTFS volume. It now mounts without warnings in dmesg, and I've > verified that ntfscp works properly.
Great! Thanks for letting us know!
Best regards,
Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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