[Bug 562139] Re: FUSE filesystems cannot be accessed when shared

2010-04-14 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 175689 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175689 On Tuesday 13, April, Chow Loong Jin wrote: crippled filesystem (driver)s that do not implement ownership and/or permissions properly. For the record, NTFS-3G developers has ported the POSIX File System

[Bug 562139] Re: FUSE filesystems cannot be accessed when shared

2010-04-14 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 175689 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175689 On Tuesday 13, April, Chow Loong Jin wrote: crippled filesystem (driver)s that do not implement ownership and/or permissions properly. For the record, NTFS-3G developers has ported the POSIX File System

[Bug 514223] Re: Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 unable to access devices touched by ntfs-3g versions prior to 2010.1.16

2010-01-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Some correction to the bug report from the NTFS-3G developers: 1. It is not true that Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 unable to access devices touched by ntfs-3g versions prior to 2010.1.16. Just try and you will see that all of them will see the NTFS partition fine. The fact is that

[Bug 412119] Re: Copying NTFS partition full might cause NTFS errors

2009-08-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Please see http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#indexo ** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- Copying NTFS partition full might cause NTFS errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412119 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 389718] Re: Ntsf-3g is corrupting NTFS structure.

2009-08-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- Ntsf-3g is corrupting NTFS structure. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389718 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 396874] Re: mount ignores options from fstab

2009-08-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#wine It's a mount(8) bug/feature. Use 'users,exec', not 'exec,user'. ** Package changed: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) = util-linux (Ubuntu) -- mount ignores options from fstab https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396874 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 368134] Re: nfts-3g ubuntu 9.04 filesystem corruption

2009-08-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- nfts-3g ubuntu 9.04 filesystem corruption https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368134 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 318625] Re: Rhythmbox shouldn't set illegal / special characters on filenames (i.e. ?; question mark) when ripping to NTFS volumes

2009-08-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
** Package changed: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) = rhythmbox (Ubuntu) -- Rhythmbox shouldn't set illegal / special characters on filenames (i.e. ?; question mark) when ripping to NTFS volumes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318625 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 162863] Re: ntfs-3g does not respect fstab options

2009-07-10 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#useroption2 -- ntfs-3g does not respect fstab options https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162863 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 368134] Re: nfts-3g ubuntu 9.04 filesystem corruption

2009-05-28 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
What NTFS-3G does is actually detects and reports that something has corrupted two files. The 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption with ICH8/ICH9 on 64 bits installations bug is indeed a very good candidate to be the real culprit. Data and file system corruptions almost exclusively origin

[Bug 336762] Re: ntfs hard links not working

2009-04-28 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Ubuntu doesn't compile with the internal FUSE library which is used to ensure and certify NTFS-3G quality. The external FUSE library has several issues which are fixed only in the FUSE CVS. -- ntfs hard links not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336762 You received this bug notification

[Bug 336762] Re: ntfs hard links not working

2009-03-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The problem can not be reproduced with NTFS-3G 2009.2.1, internal FUSE and kernel 2.6.26. NTFS-3G and/or the kernel is too old in Ubuntu 8.10. Upstream NTFS-3G has closed this issue report as INVALID and Ubuntu specific. -- ntfs hard links not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336762 You

[Bug 336762] Re: ntfs hard links not working

2009-03-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: util-linux = ntfs-3g -- ntfs hard links not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 336762] Re: ntfs hard links not working

2009-03-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Hard links work fine (you can confirm by ls -i after cp -al) but probably the 'echo B B' case doesn't because apparently the '' creates a new file for some reason. Do you have any specific software which doesn't work correctly with NTFS-3G? -- ntfs hard links not working

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2009-02-21 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
This is a known Vista problem handling sparse files. Please contact Microsoft. Good luck! -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 330023] Re: ntfs-3g crashed with SIGSEGV in ntfs_attr_lookup()

2009-02-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
NTFS-3G 2009.2.1 did fix a crash in ntfs_attr_lookup if a file or directory (this is the case here) was highly fragmented and there was an NTFS corruption or hardware problem: http://ntfs-3g.org/releases.html -- ntfs-3g crashed with SIGSEGV in ntfs_attr_lookup()

[Bug 330023] Re: ntfs-3g crashed with SIGSEGV in ntfs_attr_lookup()

2009-02-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The crash happens exactly at the same place which was fixed in NTFS-3G 2009.2.1. However the stack trace doesn't look correct. There are some problems with it. Like apparently using debug symbols from the NTFS-3G 2009.2.1 release and manual edition of vital parameters to corrupt values which

[Bug 250060] Re: ntfs-3g crashed with SIGSEGV in ntfs_log_handler_syslog()

2009-02-15 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Not ntfs-3g specific, other programs crash in syslog - dl_fixup() too: Bug #188354, Bug #279586, Bug #124453 ** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: ntfs-3g = glibc -- ntfs-3g crashed with SIGSEGV in ntfs_log_handler_syslog() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250060 You received this

[Bug 175503] Re: User-friendly automounting of ntfs partitions with an unclean logfile

2009-02-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
NTFS-3G solved this issue from version 2009.2.1: http://ntfs- 3g.org/releases.html -- User-friendly automounting of ntfs partitions with an unclean logfile https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175503 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 310326] Re: Intrepid: USB HDD not mounted

2009-02-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: ntfs-3g = hal Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- Intrepid: USB HDD not mounted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/310326 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 240429] Re: adding files to mercurial repository fails on ntfs

2009-02-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The driver works as expected (Operation not permitted). Remove the default_permissions option then it should work. Please see more detail about permission handling in the NTFS-3G manual ('Access Handling and Security' section): http://ntfs-3g.org/manual.html ** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu)

[Bug 328352] Re: mount.ntfs causes 100% CPU (iowait)

2009-02-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
It's not clear what you copied from where to where and how. Anyway it looks to be a hardware problem. Check your RAM and disks for bad sectors, e.g. by the utility badblocks. -- mount.ntfs causes 100% CPU (iowait) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328352 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 328352] Re: mount.ntfs causes 100% CPU (iowait)

2009-02-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
It's impossible to see what NTFS-3G has to do with the problem. Yes, the /dev/sda1 NTFS partition is mounted at /media/WindowsRecovery by NTFS-3G but you were reading from another file system mounted at /media/mobile120 and writing to partition /dev/sda2. The IOWAIT is completely normal when one

[Bug 322751] Re: Not mounting drives unsafely removed in windows is an annoying default

2009-01-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Joseph: This is a long and complex story. I make it short. I've seen many thousands related comments, suggestions, arguments in the last many years but yours was the first one which had a good point (case 3). Theoretically you're not right but practically you are: the damage was already done when

[Bug 320192] Re: ntfs-3g doesn't support exec option

2009-01-23 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The 'exec' mount option is of course supported. In fact it's the default NTFS-3G option. There are over 80 NTFS-3G mount options. These are NTFS- 3G, FUSE user space, FUSE kernel driver and kernel VFS related. The NTFS-3G man page documents only the NTFS-3G specific mount options, none of the

[Bug 318625] Re: Rhythmbox shouldn't set illegal / special characters on filenames (i.e. ?; question mark) when ripping to NTFS volumes

2009-01-20 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
This is definitely not an NTFS-3G problem. The '?' is a perfectly legal NTFS character in the POSIX namesspace NTFS-3G uses: http://ntfs- 3g.org/support.html#posixfilenames2 -- Rhythmbox shouldn't set illegal / special characters on filenames (i.e. ?; question mark) when ripping to NTFS volumes

[Bug 250705] Re: Please backport ntfs-3g

2008-12-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
@Shirish: NTFS-3G is a user space driver. It can't hang the system. Only buggy kernels can. Nevertheless your experience is very unique and it sounds to be a hardware problem. It's also possible that Ubuntu patched the driver and something went terrible wrong. But then, much more people would

[Bug 303610] Re: file move causes data loss if interrupted due to system crash

2008-12-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
@Florian Linux NTFS development claims 100% NTFS compatibility. If you think otherwise then please describe here what your problems are because we very much would like to know and fix it if it's justified. Please note, Ubuntu uses an extremely old version of the driver which indeed has many

[Bug 303610] Re: file move causes data loss if interrupted due to system crash

2008-12-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Things don't work the way you think. They are much, much more complex. E.g. a full NTFS driver implementation requires more than 150 person years work. Not only the file data but ALL relevant metadata must be on the disk as well. If only a few metadata bytes are missing then one may lose

[Bug 303610] Re: file move causes data loss if interrupted due to system crash

2008-12-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
No software solution will help because the (disk) caches will lie about the data. It's not possible to build a reliable (predictable) system on unreliable hardware. People want the cheapest and fastest disks = disk manufacturers provide them but data unreliability is the real price. The faster

[Bug 303610] Re: file move causes data loss if interrupted due to system crash

2008-12-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
It's mathematically not possible, not statistically. If Windows were safe Microsoft wouldn't have documented the same data loss problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940508 They talk about not unmounted devices which is the same as suddenly removing them or power outage. Moreover the severity

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
It's possible that this is a pure Windows bug. Either a Microsoft NTFS or a device driver related. Google found many similar crashes but none of them involved NTFS-3G, only for Windows recovery. Here is an idea how we could prove and document this is a pure Windows bug. 1. Install Cygwin (a

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The ZIP package at http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/download/sparse.zip contains a CS.EXE file which is supposed to work similarly as the cygwin cp --sparse=always command. The test could be simpler. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
I've found the below on http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/256701-QuickTime-BSODs- Vista-solution That eMule had to remove all the sparse file support on Vista because of Vista bugs So, it's very well possible this is a pure Vista bug what any software can trigger, not only NTFS-3G. --

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Cygwin cp --sparse=always doesn't work. The files are not sparse. CS.EXE also doesn't work on my x64 because it's a 32-bit EXE file. Maybe you're more lucky. Of course it's also possible that Microsoft silently disabled sparse file support because they had too many reliability problems with them.

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
No such problem was reported with XP. Sparse support can't be disabled for NTFS-3G because it's part of the POSIX specification. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
What are the outputs of ntfs-3g.probe --readwrite /dev/sda5 ntfs-3g.probe --readonly /dev/sda5 Yes, the log file is important even if we can't create yet the NTFS debug file. We will make a solution for you depending on the above results. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Storno the ntfs-3g.probe's. I just realized you use ntfsprogs-2.0.0 and have problem with the image file, not the NTFS device. Please use ntfsclone from ntfsprogs 1.13.1. ntfsprogs-2.0.0 has problems. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Well, if the journal file is unclean then ntfsclone-1.13.2-wip will fail too. There are two choices: 1. Run ntfsfix on /dev/sda5 before running ntfsclone (any version). 2. Run ntfsfix on ntfsmeta.img then ntfsclone ntfsmeta.img. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Use the --force option. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Good job! :-) Yes, bzip2 is unfortunately very slow. We will solve this issue in the future by using a different NTFS debug image format. The actions are correct. I would also need the output of egrep -3i 'ntfs|ata|sd|i/o' /var/log/daemon.log and the name of the file which crashes Vista. --

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Please download http://ntfs-3g.org/download/ntfsclone-1.13.2-wip.tgz Unpack it and use ntfsclone-1.13.2-wip instead of ntfsclone. Thanks. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Please also send the output of egrep -i 'ntfs|ata|sd|I/O' /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/daemon.log could be also /var/log/messages, /var/log/messages.log, /var/log/syslog or something else distribution specific. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
I'll make you an ntfsclone binary which you can use, please wait a bit. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Yes, --force ntfs-3g mount and unmount should also fix it. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
NTFS interoperates with several other subsytems and if one of them fails then the problem appears as an NTFS bug but in fact it isn't. That's why more, non-NTFS info is needed, to confine where the problem is. The good news is that no sign of any hardware problem. However it seems the NTFS

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The file metadata is indeed inconsistent. Did you start to download the file in Linux or Vista? What is your Vista version? Do you have Vista Patches, Service Packs? -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Yes, chkdsk has many problems unfortunately. If it still crashes then no need for the other debug file. What are the Amule versions for Windows and Linux? You don't have Windows Home Server, do you? Microsoft is having major problems with NTFS file corruptions and they even had to hire back

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
That would be a very good observation! If BSOD comes when you copy the file then please run the below command in Linux shell. It is one line: for i in $(seq 1 200); do dd if=/dev/zero of=sparse bs=4096 seek=$((2*$i)) count=1 conv=notrunc; done Then try to copy the 'sparse' file on Windows. If it

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, [utf-8] Nicolò Chieffo wrote: Do you think that sparse files are wrongly managed by ntfs-3g? They are fine. But your case is more complex than the usual one. It also could be a unique, subtle problem. Nobody else reported this problem and I also can't reproduce it. This

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Can you write down the Vista BSOD messages, or make a photo about it? -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Thank you for the bug report. The NTFS-3G project is very interested to help you to solve your problem. Please follow the below steps to be able to help you: 1. Reproduce the problem. 2. Create the NTFS debug information according to http://www.linux-

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Sorry, step 4 had a typo, it should be: 4. Repeat step 2. It's important to create the NTFS debug info right after running CHKDSK and before trying to reproduce the problem. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
And of course step 6 was supposed to say: 6. Send the files you got in step 2. and 4. to szaka AT ntfs-3g.org or make them available somewhere for download and let us know if step 3 helped. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

[Bug 269946] Re: open(filename, O_DIRECT) on ntfs fails

2008-09-14 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Thanks. The issue is added to the TODO list. NTFS-3G never supported O_DIRECT. It was just an accident that it (incorrectly) worked in the past which, it seems, was fixed by the kernel. -- open(filename, O_DIRECT) on ntfs fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269946 You received this bug

[Bug 269946] Re: open(filename, O_DIRECT) on ntfs fails

2008-09-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Can you reproduce with non-swap files too? If the swap is on then the error is correct (protects from crash, system corruption) though I think the errno is indeed misleading (it's a kernel problem). -- open(filename, O_DIRECT) on ntfs fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269946 You received

[Bug 250597] Re: Cannot mount ntfs partition as only writable by 1 user

2008-07-22 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
This is a kernel problem which was (supposedly) fixed silently in the recent kernel security upgrade. Probably it's time to submit a CVE for it ... -- Cannot mount ntfs partition as only writable by 1 user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250597 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 250597] Re: Cannot mount ntfs partition as only writable by 1 user

2008-07-22 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Ok, I see. Not even one user can write to the partition? Well, Ubuntu is using an old, unsupported, custom patched and uncertified NTFS-3G driver with external FUSE. If the configuration is not right then this problem can indeed happen. I suggest removing the Ubuntu NTFS-3G package and

[Bug 250597] Re: Cannot mount ntfs partition as only writable by 1 user

2008-07-22 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, themuddler wrote: The problem isn't that not-even-one can write, but that any user can read/write when it's supposed to be accessible by just 1 user (the owner). This is what I answered originally. Upgrade your kernel to the fixed one and your problem is gone. --

[Bug 204133] Re: wubi install unusable - Buffer I/O error on device loop0

2008-07-11 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Nice work. Colin, FUSE doesn't support sync(2) but the 'sync' mount option should be ok because FUSE writes are always synchronous at the moment. Your patch fundamentally solved ntfs-3g 'sync' support minus some issues (cached metadata, disk caching, propagating the sync option to FUSE,

[Bug 243287] Re: Copying files from Linux to NTFS Partition (using NTFS-3G) makes random-placed non-movable system blocks which causes file fragmentation

2008-06-27 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Here are some info what kind of fragmentations exist. It's important to read because fragmentation types are often misunderstood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_(computer) The NTFS-3G driver tries hard not to fragment files and if you're doing a lot of concurrent writes then you will

[Bug 242426] Re: Ark hangs when file/directory name on NTFS contains a colon

2008-06-24 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#posixfilenames2 Why does the driver allow special characters in the filenames? NTFS supports several filename namespaces at the same time: DOS, Win32 and POSIX. While the NTFS-3G driver handles all of them, it always creates new files in the POSIX namespace

[Bug 199161] Re: File and directory removal, rename and move may have been denied with an Operation not supported error message

2008-06-16 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#compressed -- File and directory removal, rename and move may have been denied with an Operation not supported error message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199161 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 237575] Re: Not ext2/ext3 drivers for other operating systems available when you format an external HDD or USB stick

2008-06-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Reading more about the open source NTFS-3G driver, I have to add that apparently it neither supports change of file owner nor access rights, so IMHO NTFS is no option for the Ubuntu user. On the NTFS-3G home page at http://ntfs-3g.org the first link in the first paragraph points to NTFS-3G

[Bug 232443] Re: Let the user choose between ntfs-3g and ntfs kernel driver

2008-06-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
By default the kernel driver mounts read-only, NTFS-3G read-write. Mounting read-write turns on a lot of consistency checks to protect against potential data corruptions during write. But of one uses the 'ro', read-only mount option then NTFS-3G will mount the volume the same way as the kernel

[Bug 232443] Re: Let the user choose between ntfs-3g and ntfs kernel driver

2008-05-21 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Hi, I'd like to ask, why do you want to use the NTFS kernel driver? NTFS-3G can be also used read-only with the 'ro' mount option but a memory corruption can not lead to system crash or data corruption on the disk unlike in case of the NTFS kernel driver. Fundamentally NTFS-3G is the five years

[Bug 232443] Re: Let the user choose between ntfs-3g and ntfs kernel driver

2008-05-21 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
CPU usage: - Until very recently Ubuntu indeed used an old, very CPU consuming driver. - The NTFS-3G CPU usage is visible in the process list which is not true for kernel drivers. This makes some people think that the driver uses a lot of CPU even if sometimes it uses less than the in-kernel

[Bug 232443] Re: Let the user choose between ntfs-3g and ntfs kernel driver

2008-05-21 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Sorry, this is the link I originally intended to send in my last comment: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~swift/projects/drivers.html -- Let the user choose between ntfs-3g and ntfs kernel driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 230906] Re: Using special characters in filenames prevents Windows from opening

2008-05-16 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#posixfilenames2 Why does the driver allow special characters in the filenames? NTFS supports several filename namespaces at the same time: DOS, Win32 and POSIX. While the NTFS-3G driver handles all of them, it always creates new files in the POSIX namespace

[Bug 106621] Re: Gnome Trash doesn't show deleted files on ntfs-3g partitions

2008-05-05 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Could someone modify the ntfs-3g package so that the hack is directly implemented when the fstab is written? Sadly we can not do anything in NTFS-3G because, as it was earlier explained and patches submitted, this is not an NTFS-3G bug but a Gnome one. When it's possible we always workaround

[Bug 106621] Re: Gnome Trash doesn't show deleted files on ntfs-3g partitions

2008-05-05 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
why would users delete files exactly? when there is no trash available nautilus display a dialog explaining that and ask for confirmation to the users By accident. Childen. Elder people. Users who think they can recover from the Trash if they still change their mind. Software bugs. Hung

[Bug 226622] Re: Wubi has unclear error message on NTFS dirty flag

2008-05-05 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Both ntfs-3g and ntfs-3g.probe could be used and both return error code 15 if the journal is unclean: http://linux.die.net/man/8/ntfs-3g.probe The most important thing is gracefully shut down and detaching external devices as Microsoft and drive manufacturers has documented. -- Wubi has unclear

[Bug 61235] Re: USB mass storage stops working after a while

2008-05-04 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
I would suspect ntfs to be contributing to the issue but the other identical psc has the same issue though it doesnt not need to be power cycled as often. I can assure you the issue absolutely has nothing to do with NTFS. -- USB mass storage stops working after a while

[Bug 190329] Re: DAC permissions not correctly enforced

2008-05-03 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
I can't see problems in your debug session. Your umask setting causes the permission denied errors, no 'x' on the directories. Try e.g. fmask=337,dmask=227 with the 'ro' mount and it will work fine. Similar logic for 'rw' mounts. -- DAC permissions not correctly enforced

[Bug 190329] Re: DAC permissions not correctly enforced

2008-04-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Search for the FUSE kernel module default_permission fix. -- DAC permissions not correctly enforced https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190329 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 223280] Re: rdiff-backup fails on file with unknown unicode character

2008-04-29 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
See http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale -- rdiff-backup fails on file with unknown unicode character https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223280 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 190329] Re: DAC permissions not correctly enforced

2008-04-27 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Fixed in kernel 2.4.25. -- DAC permissions not correctly enforced https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190329 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 190329] Re: DAC permissions not correctly enforced

2008-04-27 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Fixed in kernel 2.6.25. -- DAC permissions not correctly enforced https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190329 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 190329] Re: DAC permissions not correctly enforced

2008-04-27 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Fixed in kernel 2.6.25. -- DAC permissions not correctly enforced https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190329 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 203540] Re: ntfs-3g crashed while copying files to an external USB drive (in ntfs_mft_record_alloc)

2008-04-23 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
If ntfs-3g crashes then please send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the NTFS information according to http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone#store_only_ntfs_metadata and the compressed /var/log/daemon.log file. Otherwise we can't help. Nobody else is having this problem, so you're the only one

[Bug 205081] Re: ntfs-3g will mount as root only, breaks mounting as user

2008-04-22 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
but also to use the external fuse libs It needs internal fuse. The external fuse (suid-root fusermount) has know potential exploits, ntfs-3g doesn't have any. So the safe internal fuse replaces the insafe external fuse. Regards, Szaka == NTFS-3G Lead Developer: http://nts-3g.org -- ntfs-3g

[Bug 195420] Re: moving files with special characters fails

2008-04-22 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
This is because ntfs-3g is ignoring locales Ntfs-3g **never** ignores locale. It's not setup. Regards, Szaka == NTFS-3G Lead Developer: http://ntfs-3g.org -- moving files with special characters fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195420 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 210528] Re: ntfs-3g mounted with both options relatime and noatime

2008-04-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Actually there are two problems here: 1. The extra added noatime option which is fixed in NTFS-3G CVS. 2. The atime-relatime change which is a problem in the mount(8) utility because it doesn't pass the atime option to NTFS-3G, so it defaults to relatime. -- ntfs-3g mounted with both options

[Bug 210528] Re: ntfs-3g mounted with both options relatime and noatime

2008-04-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
This is already fixed in the NTFS-3G CVS and will be included in this month of NTFS-3G release. Thanks. -- ntfs-3g mounted with both options relatime and noatime https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210528 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 210630] Re: Gutsy version of NTFS allows improper characters in file names

2008-04-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
This is 100% intentional, documented at http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#posixfilenames2 and in fact Windows can access them fine for example by the Windows port of ntfsprogs. -- Gutsy version of NTFS allows improper characters in file names https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210630 You received

[Bug 203540] Re: ntfs-3g crashed while copying files to an external USB drive (in ntfs_mft_record_alloc)

2008-03-31 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, lozioric wrote: What Windows version (XP, Vista, Service Packs, etc) do you use? XP Pro SP2, Italian, with up-to-date security updates. Did you use a 3rd party NTFS driver (Partition Magic, Ghost, security software, etc)? I had used Acronis TrueImage once on the

[Bug 186117] Re: Cannot remount ntfs

2008-03-31 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Unfortunately neither fuse nor ntfs-3g support remount at the moment. The working rw-ro case is by pure accident and could lead to data loss. -- Cannot remount ntfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186117 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 203540] Re: ntfs-3g crashed while copying files to an external USB drive (in ntfs_mft_record_alloc)

2008-03-29 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Thanks for the bug report. What Windows version (XP, Vista, Service Packs, etc) do you use? Did you use a 3rd party NTFS driver (Partition Magic, Ghost, security software, etc)? Could you please send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the extracted NTFS information according to http://www.linux-

[Bug 208804] Re: error message mounting suspended disk

2008-03-29 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Ubuntu uses a very old version of ntfs-3g. The message in the latest ntfs-3g releases is The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows properly, or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount

[Bug 186569] Re: cannot delete files off of an Fuse mounted NTFS partition in nautilus

2008-03-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Sebastien Bacher wrote: That's a ntfs-3g issue, rmdir on an existant directory returns EEXIST and not ENOTEMPTY as it should You're quite mistaken. Both are correct and file systems use both values: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xsh/rmdir.html NTFS-3G uses EEXIST because more

[Bug 190667] Re: Cannot copy all files between NTFS disks

2008-02-11 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
You did your tests with the two years old, obsolote, not production quality ntfsmount. Stable read/write NTFS support is provided by a completely different NTFS driver, called NTFS-3G and it's built-in into Ubuntu 7.10. The correct command to use the default Ubuntu NTFS driver is mount -t

[Bug 184820] Re: cannot mount NTFS partition as a normal user

2008-01-21 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#useroption -- cannot mount NTFS partition as a normal user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184820 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 180620] Re: Double mount in one directory

2008-01-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
This is how Linux mount works. Bye, Szaka == NTFS-3G Lead Developer: http://ntfs-3g.org ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New = Invalid -- Double mount in one directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180620 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 179910] Re: Ubuntu should, in some way, handle Windows rules for file names on a NTFS partition

2008-01-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Stephen: The problem is not Windows but certain Windows softwares which intentionally ignore such files. NTFS-3G doesn't create files in the POSIX namespace to annoy people. Actually it's just the opposite! This way things can Just Work on Linux, Windows, OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, etc.

[Bug 179910] Re: Ubuntu should, in some way, handle Windows rules for file names on a NTFS partition

2008-01-06 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Well, it seems to be stupidly false for you because you didn't made the effort to understand what NTFS namespaces are and how file system drivers and applications use them. It __IS__ possible to create files with all the characters you mentioned on Windows and it __IS__ possible to read/rename

[Bug 179910] Re: Ubuntu should, in some way, handle Windows rules for file names on a NTFS partition

2008-01-06 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Explorer is long known to be broken. This is not surprising because Microsoft is very much interested NOT to interoperate well with other systems on this level to lock users to their platform. You also still don't seem to understand that the only Windows softwares which can't handle such

[Bug 179910] Re: Ubuntu should, in some way, handle Windows rules for file names on a NTFS partition

2008-01-05 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#posixfilenames2 -- Ubuntu should, in some way, handle Windows rules for file names on a NTFS partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 165154] Re: NTFS-3G does not mount external disc in kernel 2.6.22

2007-11-26 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 115616 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115616 I can tell you that the issue has really absolutely nothing to do with ntfs-3g. It's the kernel how it (incorrectly?) started to setup raid, dm, ldm, etc. The device busy always means that something already

[Bug 148949] Re: Windows partitions not accessible

2007-11-11 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The relevant device is already locked by probably the device mapper, LDM or md. Look for mountable devices under /dev/mapper. kpartx -a /dev/mapper/brand_blabla may be needed to create the mountable partitions under /dev/mapper. In the other two cases follow the relevant instructions how to

[Bug 24063] Re: Amarok hangs during tagging of FLAC files

2007-11-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
@apecar: If you have 90+% NTFS-3G CPU usage then please send the debug log following the instructions at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/+bug/24063/comments/9 and after that the full output of egrep -i 'dma|sd|ntfs' /var/log/daemon.log* -- Amarok hangs during tagging of FLAC

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