On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:49:58PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote:
> ...If anyone has had a disaster reading NTFS data I'd like to hear it.

It's not a *disaster* but I did have a failure to copy a file fron an NTFS
partition ... just now.  On a kernel built from cvs as of last night.

It's a 5GB file, and the error occurred after about 580MB.  It produced 
a kernel message, and my cp command stopped, but that was the only impact.
My circumvention will be to pump it through the network, instead.

Error from my dmesg:

ntfs_readattr: offset too big: 595591168 (595656704) > 595634176
ntfs_read: ntfs_readattr failed: 7

So NTFS may work most of the time, but I think it is still experimental.  

(This is neither a complaint nor a problem report.  Just an experience
that coincided with your posting to misc@, STeve.)

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