Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: Linux NTFS Vista compatibility (was: Re: [2.6-GIT] NTFS: Release 2.1.24.) | Date | Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:35:37 +0100 |
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On Sunday 25 September 2005 20:12, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > Do these changes allow us to mount an NTFS volume created by Windows > > > Vista/Longhorn beta 1 yet? > > So far the current NTFS code worked fine with Longhorn/Vista releases. > WinFS and TxFS (transactional NTFS) are on top of current NTFS and MS > engineers claim that they work hard to avoid on-disk NTFS format changes. > > > > I tried the driver in 2.6.13, and it complains about these > > > $LogFile states, and ntfscp refuses to work. > > This happens probably due to the recent, strict $LogFile check changes. > Several people reported these and Anton is investigating it. > > > > If you're unaware of the problem, I'm happy to help debug it. > > Anybody [keep] confirming that the current Linux NTFS code still works > on the latest Vista beta releases would be highly encouraging for all > of us ;) > > > I am indeed unaware of the problem. Could you try the latest kernel > > with the ntfs patches in it (Linus already merged them in the official > > git tree) and tell me if it now works? Thanks a lot in advance! > > 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.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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