From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 1 11: 3:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1EA6151CC for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:03:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 3402 invoked from network); 1 Dec 1999 19:02:25 -0000 Received: from userbj52.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.143.215) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 1 Dec 1999 19:02:25 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA01676; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:38:39 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:38:39 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Tony Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reboots and lockups using MSDOS and NTFS mounts. Message-ID: <19991201183839.C316@marder-1> References: <99113008411700.01232@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <99113008411700.01232@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 08:32:36AM -0600, Tony wrote: > Yesterday as I was saving some data from a then corrupt NT > installation (The data was not corrupt, something with the > configuration wouldn't allow NT to boot ) I mounted my NTFS drive > under FreeBSD 3.1. I started a pax -rw of the volume onto /usr/tmp > and some time into the copy the machine simply rebooted. > > Once the machine came back up I scanned for any logged errors and > checked available drive space. There was plenty of free space and > no errors were logged. > > Is mount_ntfs that unstable or could it be something else? > I think that the NTFS code is beta level (certainly that versions I built manually on 3.1-R were, I don't know how much development has been done recently). On my machine the NTFS partition has >40,000 files in ~1000 directories and a find(1) or other recursive stuff from high up in the NTFS tree frequently hangs, although I've never had a spontaneous reboot. It maybe better to copy directories one (or a few) at a time, a PITA I know, but if it works then it's worth it. > On a similar note, I was mounting MSDOS floppies to try and get a > working boot disk. Upon copying a file to the mounted floppy the > machine hung completely. Is this also a known problem or is this > normal behavior? > (I realize there are MSDOS utilities in /usr/ports but cp felt doable 8) > > > Tony > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message