Re: NTFS bugs

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sun, 2 Jan 2000 13:23:49 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Steve Dodd wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 10:59:46AM +0100, Goran Gajic wrote:
>
> > I guess that not much Linux users have Micro$oft NT installed on same
> > machine with Linux. I'm sorry if this was already reported, but if
> > NTFS write is enabled commands like rm and mv will remain in D state
> > if you try to rm or mv anything from NT partition. NTFS write support
> > was ok in 2.1.xx kernels and I think in early 2.2.xx.
>
> NTFS write support is broken in some subtle and some less than subtle ways --
> and has been since the beginning, AFAIK. It shouldn't even compile in 2.3.
> I guess I'm going to have to find some time to have a look at it :-/

Steve, I suspect that it will be pretty simple with the new address_space
stuff. If you will have a time - tell and we'll go through that stuff. You
know the NTFS layout better, so...
Cheers,
Al

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