Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] kernel freeze because of iocharset=utf8

[Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...>]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Andreas Goesele wrote:

> since some time I experience very unpleasant system freezes. The
> culprit seems to be the ntfs driver (v1.1.22, R/O MODULE) of kernel
> 2.4.21.

This is the old driver.
 
> After installing this kernel I started to get the error message:
> 
>   NTFS: Unicode name contains a character that cannot be converted to
>   chosen character set. Remount with utf8 encoding and this should
>   work.
> 
> I therefor changed my fstab entry to:
> 
> /dev/hda1 /disks/ntfs ntfs nodev,nosuid,ro,iocharset=utf8,umask=0 0 0
> 
> The next day the freezes started ...
> 
> The freezes "normally" occur during daily cron tasks, with heavy disk
> activity, and I can reproduce them with high probability by doing a
> find on the ntfs drive. (Not that I like to experiment with that too
> much ...)
> 
> My questions:
> 
> Is this a known bug? Is it solved in the new driver?

Nobody reported such problem with the new, rewritten driver (e.g. quite a
lot of Mandrake and SuSE users use nls=utf8).

As for the old driver, there are definitely problems with it but AFAIS
nobody cares: it just doesn't make sense because there are so many
problems. Please try the backported, latest stable driver available 
for 2.4 kernels (NTFS driver version is 2.1.4c):

	https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13956

Or maybe others have idea if you insist using the old driver.
 
    Szaka