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From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2004-02-26 23:00:30
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Per Olofsson wrote: > If you're interested, you can get the source from > <http://dsv.su.se/~pelle/ntfsimage/>. OK but unfortunately I don't have much time for it. I'd prefer if you send working patches for integrating ntfsimage and ntfsclone and I'd be _very_ glad to revise, test, use it. > It worked when I tried it on a filesystem that I had created with > mkntfs, but it didn't work on a real Windows partition. Hmmm, if you go ahead I could take a look. > I don't know if it actually compiles with the latest libntfs either. I could also try this one. > The format of the sparse images are documented in comments in the > source code. The biggest problem with this code is that it doesn't do > enough error checking. Indeed. Error checking is very important, it's a must everywhere. > The point of not calling the restoration utility ntfsrestore is that > it isn't really specific to NTFS - it could work with any > filesystem. Only the image creator (ntfsimage) is specific to NTFS. Hmmm, Ian argued exactly the same way :) The problem, see e.g. how tools are used: gzip - gunzip bzip2 - bunzip2 compress - uncompress zip - unzip tar - tar xdelta - xdelta There is a pattern. ntfsimage - ntfsrestore makes sense. Just using ntfsimage to image/restore also makes sense. {ntfsimage, fooimage, barimage, ...} - simgrestore somehow doesn't really fit. Where will you distribute simgrestore? Everywhere? They will conflict. Separate package? That's a maintaince and user pain. > I'll have to look more at the ntfsclone source code and see if I can > work out a patch, In theory you should mostly look only at clone_ntfs() and integrate it there. > My ntfsimage utility also has the feature of skipping the page file I thought about that also. My problem is, I don't have knowledge about if the page file is allowed or it is possible to be used between reboots. E.g. Linux swap can definitely be used. So IMHO it's better to backup unnecessarily all the time than lose data potentially in some cases rarely. > and the bad clusters file, Good point! ntfsclone incorrectly tries to save them, I added this to the TODO for fixing. > which perhaps also could be added to ntfsclone as a command line > option. Yes, the later needs to be fixed and the pagefile could have an option. But I have one related question. How do you know where is the real page file? There can be several files called pagefile.sys on an NTFS volume. Szaka |
