From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 17 9:40:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3CE337B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:40:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A059043F3F for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:40:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from markie@notwentytwo.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from modem-884.chimpanzee.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.134.115.116] helo=mrblossom) by cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.10.11) id 18kpG8-0006kq-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:40:53 +0000 Message-ID: <001c01c2d6ac$03e05e30$0a00a8c0@mrblossom> From: "Markie" To: References: Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:42:58 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think I get that :) Thanks. So maybe its not working because you're making things smaller than 1k? like new files? have you tried copying something big to the mount instead of making new files? :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Grant" To: "Markie" Cc: "Daxbert" ; "freebsd-questions" Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Markie wrote: > > > You're right :) Sorry. > > > > file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized > > areas); > > > > What does this mean? :) big words for a 17 year old :$ > > Nonresident: Bigger than a kilobyte :-) A "resident" file is an > optimisation. Roughly by analogy, it'd be like storing the contents of a > (small) file directly in the inode, rather than in data blocks pointed > to by the inode. Most files are likely to be nonresident. If you create > a file it'll be nonresident. > > Most resident data appears to crop up using NTFS' "forked" file ability, > which isn't generally something you hear a lot about. > > Not having any spaces: this is what's called a "sparse" file - eg, you > write some bytes, seek forward a gigabyte, and write some more. NTFS has > the ability to record this file with a "hole" in the middle, so it > doesn't require a GB of disk storage. Most files are unlikely to be > sparse. > > > > -- > jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ > Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ > Axioms speak louder than words. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message