Hi, Jelle de Jong wrote: > Dear ntfs-3g developers, > > I am using libguestfs to make file-based back-ups of kvm quests. > > Some of the guests are Windows Servers with NTFS formatting. > > We want to enable data deduplication on the Windows 2012 file servers, > however a few years ago this caused libguestfs to stop working. > > What is the current status of ntfs-3g and support for mounting and > reading Windows data volumes with ntfs...
AKAIK ntfs-3g can mount and read any Windows data volume, up to Windows 10, and it provides Posix compliant features to do so. There are however limitations, mostly those resulting from the use of the fuse architecture. > ... and data deduplication enabled? Data deduplication is not an ntfs-3g feature per se, and AFAIK it is not a Posix feature either. It has to be provided by some package relying on file system services. If you have met some problem with some deduplication package, it may be because it expects some specific file access mode to be supported (maybe some ioctl), or because the deduplicator does not support some feature useful to Windows 2012 which does not fit into Posix. I would need details about the experienced behavior (error messages, syslog, ...) to provide a more precise answer. Jean-Pierre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
