Quoting Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
In response to "Monah Baki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi all,
We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server
supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2.
We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive.
Our objective is to copy 700GB worth of data from the windows to the freebsd
server then take the external harddive to a remote client who runs windows
2003 and then copy the data back to the windows server.
The throughput of copying the data from windows to the usb attached to it
was ridiculous, more than 12 hours to copy 60GB of data.
I tried copying a 1GB file from windows to the usb attached to the freebsd
and it took less than 5 minutes, but ofcourse when I tried to mount the
usb back to the windows box I could not see the 1GB file that I copied.
How can use the freebsd as the destination copy since it has a much better
throughput and at the same time have the windows box see the 600GB file
that was copied once I attach the usb harddrive to it.
I expect the filesystem is the problem. Windows doesn't understand UFS.
FAT has been the traditional solution to this, since just about every OS
understands FAT, but I don't believe FAT will support files as large
as you're working with.
I'm not completely up to speed with FreeBSD's NTFS support. Last I looked
at it, it was experimental and there were warnings everywhere. I assume
it's improved since then (~3 years ago) but can't say with authority.
However, I think that's your only option. Luckily, since you're just
using the USB drive to move a file, and can keep it safe in another
location until you're sure it transferred safely, this shouldn't be too
risky.
I would format the drive with the Windows machine and make it NTFS, then
work with the FreeBSD mount options to get FreeBSD to mount it. Have a
look at mount_ntfs.
I agree with your approach but, mount_ntfs is still essentially
read-only. Fortunately ntfs-3g has been ported (using FUSE), so the OP
should be able to use that instead. See the sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port.
JN
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