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From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2003-11-20 19:18:33
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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 |
