"Then install Samba on the Linux machines and smbmount the NTFS filesystems from the Windows servers. Most of us are looking at trying to go the other way to get the Windows servers out of the picture."
I don't trust NTFS. I work in returns and repairs and see people losing thier data all the time (by the way I've seen hardware RAID fail too. You'd be amazed what goes on in the Windows world). When an NTFS volume breaks I personally don't know how to fix it other than `chkdsk /r`. Only if there is no other way do I want to resort to this. I'm suprised there aren't alternative filesystems available. The reason why I'm trying to do this is such: I usually have 2 computers; one linux, one Windows. But I'm moving home so that one of those computers will be shared and they want Windows. The Windows computer will be in the living room. I don't want a noisy power hungry linux server in my bedroom running 24/7 keeping me awake so I've removed everything but the motherboard, memory, PSU and added 64mb flash storage. This will be enough for browsing but for more functionality I need to get the Windows computer to act as a decent file server. In my eyes this means getting rid of NTFS. However, this seems _impossible_. Even though Windows provides the possibility by a driver API known as `LFS`. While LFS has been used to create rudimentry access to ext2 filesystems (I think EXPLORE2FS uses it's own method of read only access), I have found them to be UNRELIABLE. This includes Paragons` Ext2Anywhere. On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:21:13 -0500 (EST), Stephen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, ajpearce wrote: > > > "Do you want to have a file system mounted on Linux clients and served by > > Windows servers?" > > ^ Yes; exactly. > > Then install Samba on the Linux machines and smbmount the NTFS > filesystems from the Windows servers. Most of us are looking at trying > to go the other way to get the Windows servers out of the picture. > > Steve Brown > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
