http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3353
Product: kernel
Component: kernel
Summary: NTFS driver fails over time
Version: 2.4.21-0.11mdk
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm slightly puzzled with this... Here's my scenario.
I have a computer w/ an Athlon 750MHz, 768M RAM, and 2 60Gb hard drives
connected to a PCI ATA-100 IDE controller
It is dual boot w/ Mandrake Linux 9.1 RC2 and Windows XP Professional
The first drive is setup w/ 4 partitions,
1) ext3 /boot
2) swap swap
3) ext3 /home
4) ext3 /
The other drive is setup w/ 1 NTFS partition
I have /mnt/windows/ setup as the mount point for the ntfs drive, the fstab line
is--> /dev/hdg1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=000,iocharset=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
This worked no problem initially, then (I don't know of anything significant
that happened to cause this) all of a sudden when I tried to browse that
directory to add an mp3 to the XMMS playlist the process hung and was given a
'D' ('uninterruptible sleep') status, and I could not kill it. Doing an ls
/mnt/windows also hung at that point. I did a umount /mnt/windows and it failed
because the device was busy. I tried again w/ the -l flag and it kinda worked,
but of course it didn't really unmount it, just removed it from the file
hierarchy so I won't hang any other programs.... Of course a reboot temporarily
fixes this, but after less than a day of uptime it happens again. I am
currently building a new kernel (2.4.21-pre5) to see if that fixes the problem.
Hope this is useful -- you got a nice distro going
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