Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-06 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, STeve Andre' wrote: My proceedure these days is to take the disk out of the machine and stuff it into mine, mount it and extract data before scrubbing the mindless thing and starting over... I normally boot the system from a live-cd (used Knoppix many times) and

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-06 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:30:00PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: ntfs_readattr: offset too big: 595591168 (595656704) 595634176 ^ | Would this be (file_size 0x) by

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-06 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:54:07 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:30:00PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: ntfs_readattr: offset too big: 595591168 (595656704) 595634176 ^

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-06 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:33:16AM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:54:07 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:30:00PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: ntfs_readattr: offset too big: 595591168 (595656704) 595634176

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-06 Thread Ted Unangst
On Feb 5, 2008 10:19 PM, Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny thing, I haven't really *ever* used NTFS (on any OS) but couple of days ago I wanted to transfer file to NTFS partition and couldn't because the kernel lacked the driver. So instead of recompiling kernel I copied it over to

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-06 Thread Ted Unangst
On Feb 5, 2008 3:49 PM, STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to suggest that NTFS be enabled by default in GENERIC; I realize that it can't be in the boot media because of size, but for general work not having to compile a non-standard kernel would be a win for a lot of people.

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-06 Thread STeve Andre'
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 19:07:30 Ted Unangst wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 3:49 PM, STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to suggest that NTFS be enabled by default in GENERIC; I realize that it can't be in the boot media because of size, but for general work not having to compile

Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-05 Thread STeve Andre'
For some time now, I've been using the NTFS code in GENERIC. Lately I've been subjected to an ever increasing number of Windows Sheep who have infected themselves. My proceedure these days is to take the disk out of the machine and stuff it into mine, mount it and extract data before

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-05 Thread Marco Peereboom
Bah! I don't want NTFS enabled by default. On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:49:58PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: For some time now, I've been using the NTFS code in GENERIC. Lately I've been subjected to an ever increasing number of Windows Sheep who have infected themselves. My proceedure these

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-05 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On Feb 5, 2008 11:49 PM, STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to suggest that NTFS be enabled by default in GENERIC; I realize that it can't be in the boot media because of size, but for general work not having to compile a non-standard kernel would be a win for a lot of

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-05 Thread Josh Grosse
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:49:58PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: ...If anyone has had a disaster reading NTFS data I'd like to hear it. It's not a *disaster* but I did have a failure to copy a file fron an NTFS partition ... just now. On a kernel built from cvs as of last night. It's a 5GB file,

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-05 Thread STeve Andre'
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 19:19:41 Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, On Feb 5, 2008 11:49 PM, STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to suggest that NTFS be enabled by default in GENERIC; I realize that it can't be in the boot media because of size, but for general work not having to

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-05 Thread ropers
On 06/02/2008, STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some time now, I've been using the NTFS code in GENERIC. Lately I've been subjected to an ever increasing number of Windows Sheep who have infected themselves. My proceedure these days is to take the disk out of the machine and

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-05 Thread Antti Harri
Funny thing, I haven't really *ever* used NTFS (on any OS) but couple of days ago I wanted to transfer file to NTFS partition and couldn't because the kernel lacked the driver. So instead of recompiling kernel I copied it over to USB stick also because the file was very small. On Wed, 6 Feb