Re: Large File Copy

["Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller@amfes.com>]

Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:03, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>
> > Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> >
> > > Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:20PM -0700:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion.  I have installed 
> > > > this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition.
> > >
> > >
> > > From this sentence, I believe that you are mounting an NTFS partition on your
> > > Linux box, and are trying to get your data off of it that way.
> > >
> > > This probably won't work; the NTFS driver in kernel 2.4 is experimental, and
> > > for a reason; it really isn't stable.
> >
> > I thought the "old" NTFS driver in the 2.4 for read-only access was 
> > reliable.  Or do I need to try to install the "new" NTFS driver.
>
>
> Hmmm, I'd like to know more about these Old and New NTFS Drivers for
> Linux... Please inform those of us not in the know. 

I got my dope at:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.6

> > > > I am now trying to copy all the junk from that Samba mounted NTFS drive 
> > > > to my new ReiserFS drive.  For reasonable size files it works just fine. 
> > > > But I have quite a few files that are well over 300k - and copy 
> > > > commands keep crashing.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yep; I bet the filesystem driver is returning an error to your cp command.
> > >
> > > The only way I know of to reliably get data off of an NTFS partition for a home
> > > user is to share that partition using Windows NT/2k/XP, and then use smbclient.
> > > smbclient has a tar option that might be handy.
> >
> > Worst case, I may pursue that.  But I REALLY don't want to - there 
> > should be an easy, simple, reliable Debian Linux solution - right?
>
>
> Sure, just as soon as Microsoft opens up the NTFS specs for everyone to
> see.

That what the dedicated, hardworking, overachieving, and . . . severely 
underpaid Linux reverse engineering team is for!

Daniel