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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