Re: Linux NTFS Vista compatibility (was: Re: [2.6-GIT] NTFS: Release 2.1.24.)

[Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 16:13 +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Sunday 25 September 2005 23:35, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> [snip]
> > >
> > > Alistair, any result?
> > >
> > > > Note you will need to try the ntfs driver itself and not ntfscp as
> > > > libntfs does not have these changes yet hence ntfscp will not work just
> > > > the same (it does not use the kernel driver at all, it only uses
> > > > libntfs).
> > >
> > > The latest ntfsprogs CVS has also these changes and every tool should
> > > work fine with Vista (ntfscp, ntfsresize, ntfsundelete, ntfsclone, etc).
> >
> > I have limited access to the beta, as it expires every 30 days and forces
> > me to reinstall it. I promise to get back to all of you after 2.6.14 is
> > released with the LogFile changes.
> >
> > To clarify, I did not leave the Vista NTFS volume in an inconsistent state.
> > I even forced a chkdsk, rebooted, let it run through, then attempted again
> > to mount it with the NTFS code in 2.6.13. This categorically fails.
> 
> I was free today, so I built a 2.6.14-rc4 kernel on the machine with the 
> Longhorn NTFS volume. It now mounts without warnings in dmesg, and I've 
> verified that ntfscp works properly.

Great!  Thanks for letting us know!

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/