I think I get that :) Thanks. So maybe its not working because you're making things smaller than 1k? like new files? have you tried copying something big to the mount instead of making new files? :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Markie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Daxbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Markie wrote: > > > You're right :) Sorry. > > > > file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized > > areas); > > > > What does this mean? :) big words for a 17 year old :$ > > Nonresident: Bigger than a kilobyte :-) A "resident" file is an > optimisation. Roughly by analogy, it'd be like storing the contents of a > (small) file directly in the inode, rather than in data blocks pointed > to by the inode. Most files are likely to be nonresident. If you create > a file it'll be nonresident. > > Most resident data appears to crop up using NTFS' "forked" file ability, > which isn't generally something you hear a lot about. > > Not having any spaces: this is what's called a "sparse" file - eg, you > write some bytes, seek forward a gigabyte, and write some more. NTFS has > the ability to record this file with a "hole" in the middle, so it > doesn't require a GB of disk storage. Most files are unlikely to be > sparse. > > > > -- > jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ > Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ > Axioms speak louder than words. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
