My latest issue with NTFS was that my external drive stopped responding and caused Thunar to hang. After this my entire session hung until I killed it with Ctrl + Alt+ backspace.
It seems the rsync data copy I did completely properly but the mount stopped responding after some time of the PC being unused. Any attempts to access the mounted directory caused a hang of the terminal or process. I can now see with atactl that my USB hard drive supports power management and looks to be in standby mode when not in use. I am wondering if maybe the drive goes into standby or powers down and that causes the mount to stop working or if it is a bug in NTFS-3G support or something else. This time I am going to run ntfs-3g with the debug mode enabled in no_detach to determine if there are any errors when the drive is left connected but unused. It outputs the following on successful mount: Version 2017.3.23 external FUSE 26 Mounted /dev/sd2i (Read-Write, label "SAMSUNG", NTFS 3.1) Cmdline options: no_detach Mount options: allow_other,nonempty,relatime,fsname=/dev/sd2i,blkdev,blksize=4096 Ownership and permissions disabled, configuration type 1 Regards Ed Gray https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-gray-55079422 On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 19:15, Ed Gray <e.mask....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for your reply Maurice, > > I tried the read-only driver on an earlier version maybe 6.6 and it crashed. > I wasn't able to debug it myself but I suppose it could have been my external > hard drive, the NTFS version or a particular file that caused that issue as > it happened with a large data copy and a particularly large file (multiple > GB). > > I'm finding poor performance with USB drives on 6.8 with a hard disk and a > card reader. It could be ntfs-3g with the hard drive but the card is FAT32. I > am wondering if it's to do with the default shm kernel variables or maxfiles > and such. It causes various hangs in thunar file manager. > > I previously had increased shm variables because of a KDE application > recommending it for lots of file accesses. > > I know ntfs-3g is using FUSE rather than a native driver. > > Regards > Ed Gray > > On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, 6:51 pm Maurice McCarthy, <mansel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Native read-only support is excellent. >> I find writing with ntfs-3g quite a lot slower than native Windows >> Best
