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From: Richard R. <nt...@fl...> - 2003-01-02 19:05:51
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Hi Tobias, > The ntfs partition is then mounted then it run mke2fs or mkreiserfs on > the base.img file and the question is how safe is it to run these to > program to a single file? Using the new driver, yes. It supports overwriting exising files which doesn't sound much, but is enough to loopback mount a file, create a filesystem in the file and then mount it. It has been tested by quite a few people and no problems have been reported. > when i used losetup in the setup program it caused problems with > partitions larger than 2 gig. To deal with large files/devices you need to make sure that "large file support" is compiled in. It's quite simple and explained here: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html > so i now mount the ntfs partition then direct run mke2fs > on the file ... is that dangerous to first run mke2fs That should be OK as long as mke2fs only changes the inside of the file. For example, if it tried to update the timestamp of the file, it would fail. > As i heard from people at #ntfs on irc the "master" of this project are > very busy now Sorry, we missed you. We only work on this project during our free time, so progress is often quite slow. > and does not have any time left.. so a new release is very > far away.. is that right ? Hopefully not. The driver gets packaged up each time we find a bug, so you shouldn't have to wait long. > I would be very happy if a very small update to version 2.1.0a should > been released soon.. No new features.. just small bugfixes.. cause i > have discovered things on my ntfs partition now who seems to be from > the 2.1.0 release.. Well here is the place to tell us (not many people use irc). Let us know what problems you have and we'll try to fix them. Cheers, FlatCap (Rich) nt...@fl... WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net |
