Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > >Is read access safe ? > > > > Of course read-only is safe. As long as you mount the partition READ-ONLY > > nothing can happen to it in any way, your NTFS data is at least safe. > > Isn't it still theoretcially possible for the driver to send commands to the > disk controller that cau

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-25 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: Thank you for a reply, but I don't think it's just the ide stuff which broken. ext2fs is also broken and I suspect that all the rest is broken too. It looks like there was a single change which affected all the modules... > Working to clean all the modul

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-25 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Working to clean all the modular natures of ATA/IDE now > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Sergey Kubushin wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Modules don't load. I do usually compile heavily modular kernels, with ide > > and ext2fs be

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
Working to clean all the modular natures of ATA/IDE now On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Sergey Kubushin wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Modules don't load. I do usually compile heavily modular kernels, with ide > and ext2fs being also modular. When trying to load them from initrd, I hav

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Don't be silly. I do not use RedHat (I do my own distribution, KSI Linux) and their mkinitrd is just a script. Furthermore, I don't have ext2fs in the kernel so their mkinitrd won't work. I do not have ide in the kernel either... > As I don't use i

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
As I don't use initrd at all I am a bit out of my depth here but according to Documentation/Changes you need a new mkinitrd and the version suggested seems to be 2.8-1. Checking my up-to-date RedHat 7.0 workstation it has mkinitrd version 2.6-1, so this might be your problem? Best regards,

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Modules don't load. I do usually compile heavily modular kernels, with ide and ext2fs being also modular. When trying to load them from initrd, I have the following output: === Cut === ide-mod.o: Can't handle sections of type 32131 ide-probe-mod.o: Can't hand

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Alan Cox
> does that mean, if I apply ac11 I have already the same like pre9 patch > plus you patches? Yes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Luc de Louw
Hi Alan On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > o Resync with Linus 2.4.1pre9 does that mean, if I apply ac11 I have already the same like pre9 patch plus you patches? I know, its not the most intelligent question, but nobody could tell me... rgds Luc de Louw - To unsubscribe from this

Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 17:03 24/01/01, Timur Tabi wrote: >** Reply to message from Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 24 Jan >2001 16:54:36 + > > > >Is read access safe ? > > > > Of course read-only is safe. As long as you mount the partition READ-ONLY > > nothing can happen to it in any way, your NTF

Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread mirabilos
Timur Tabi wrote: > Isn't it still theoretcially possible for the driver to send commands to the > disk controller that cause data to become overwritten, even when it's just > supposed to read that data? IMHO the NTFS driver creators weren't bloody newbies and won't do such a bug, even not by acc

Re: NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Anton Altaparmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:54:36 + > >Is read access safe ? > > Of course read-only is safe. As long as you mount the partition READ-ONLY > nothing can happen to it in any way, your NTFS data is at least safe. Isn't it still theo

NTFS safety and lack thereof - Was: Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 15:05 24/01/01, Cataldo Thomas wrote: >On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > 2.4.0-ac11 > > o Major NTFS updates (Anton Altaparmakov) > >Is read access safe ? Of course read-only is safe. As long as you mount the partition READ-ONLY nothing can happen to it

Re: Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Cataldo Thomas
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > Slightly delayed because I had take some time out to fall off a horse.. > > > 2.4.0-ac11 > o Major NTFS updates (Anton Altaparmakov) Is read access safe ? I would

Linux 2.4.0ac11

2001-01-24 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Slightly delayed because I had take some time out to fall off a horse.. 2.4.0-ac11 o Raid5 corruption fix(Neil Brown) o Add Etrax 'cris' architecture support (Axis) o APIC cra