(your mailer's not line wrapping properly, btw)
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 12:40:34PM -0500, Bill Priest wrote:
> I as trying to sudo cp a 2.5M tar file from a linux ext2 partition to a
> ntfs drive that was mounted and received the subject.
Serves you right then :) Seriously, while the principles are there, I'm sure
there are more than a few bugs still to be shaken out of the NTFS write code;
that's why it's marked as experimental. Can you try 2.2.6? It has some updates.
I'll have a look at your oops and see what I can do, but I'm not exactly a
master hacker :(
There's a mailing list for the ntfs driver if you're interested in helping
with it, or following developments. The details are on Martin's page at..
oh look, netscape's hung again..
http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/ntfs/
> PPS. I subsequently did an ls on /dosd and it hung. kill -9 could not even
> get rid of it and I could not reboot cleanly (umount wouldn't un-mount the drive
> manually).
Yup, that's pretty much standard when one of your file system drivers dies.
To avoid the unclean reboot in this situation, unmount all your other partitions
by hand (+ remount the root ro)..
S.
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