Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:21:28 +0100 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: Want to help with NTFS |
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At 09:12 07/07/2000, Timothy D. Webster wrote: [snip] >I am currently running 2.2.17. Are these fixmes the same for the 2.4 test
Can't remember. - You could compare and find out... - I only use the 2.3/4 kernel for development ATM. - Recently, I have only looked at the 2.2.x code once in order to backport my patches from 2.3/4 to 2.2...
>kernel. By the way, I have been doing some test with the current >2.2.17 ntfs implementation. "It sort of needs work" I hope you don't
We are all very well aware of the fact that NTFS is very broken concerning write support. But there are some known problems with the read support, too. - The probably worst I know of so far being that it eats buffers for breakfast until the box runs out of memory and processes start to fail (e.g. fork fails with out of memory error)...
>mind when me saying that. Somehow it manages to over heat my hard disk, >no permanent damage.
Um. I don't think you can blame a file system for over-heating a hard disk... (I hope I am not missing a joke here!)
It just makes it get used a lot so maybe your disk is not sufficiently cooled? What disk is this? rpm? - I find my 7200rpm disk runs extremely hot (to say: well above what IBM says it is safe to run at!) even in windows if I disable the hd cooling unit stuck in front of it, so I wouldn't blame the linux ntfs driver for this effect.
>I will grab ntfs docs I can find and start working on this. Do you >mind given me pointers to the ntfs docs you know of.
That's some bookmarks you might find useful:
http://www.fsys.demon.nl/fsinfo.htm http://metalab.unc.edu/filesystems/howto/Filesystems-HOWTO-5.html http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/ntfs/ http://eia.udg.es/~coma/imweb/pagina.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period99/journal2.htm http://www.esiea.fr/public_html/Christophe.GRENIER/
The following books contain some information on NTFS but this is not their primary focus:
Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference by Gary Nebbett Macmillan Technical Publishing USA ISBN 1-57870-199-6
Inside Windows NT Second Edition by David A. Solomon Microsoft Press ISBN 1-57231-677-2
The macmillan book is quite a handy reference if you are doing NT/2000 programming. The microsoft book is not too deeply technically involved but it is a good overview of how NTFS works.
HTH,
Anton
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