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.)