Re: OpenBSD NTFS experience

2021-02-27 Thread Ed Gray
I am still having issues with NTFS-3G and an external Samsung M3 USB HDD. I am able to mount and access the filesystem fine for several hours, then without doing anything or having any crashes or errors the mount becomes inaccessible. The disk still responds to the disklabel -E command and smartct

Re: OpenBSD NTFS experience

2021-02-22 Thread Ed Gray
My latest issue with NTFS was that my external drive stopped responding and caused Thunar to hang. After this my entire session hung until I killed it with Ctrl + Alt+ backspace. It seems the rsync data copy I did completely properly but the mount stopped responding after some time of the PC being

Re: OpenBSD NTFS experience

2021-02-21 Thread Ed Gray
Thanks for your reply Maurice, I tried the read-only driver on an earlier version maybe 6.6 and it crashed. I wasn't able to debug it myself but I suppose it could have been my external hard drive, the NTFS version or a particular file that caused that issue as it happened with a large data copy a

OpenBSD NTFS experience

2021-02-21 Thread Ed Gray
Hi, Has anyone had experience using NTFS with OpenBSD and if so any pointers particularly around performance and any problems encountered? I realise NTFS is probably not used by many people but I have an external drive which is formatted with it. It would be useful to know if anyone is using the