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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2004-03-31 09:10:27
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Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2500039 By: szaka Hello! This message is basically copy-pastes from my answer sent to linux-ntfs-dev for Trey's forwarded message. Full email is at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ntfs-dev&m=108072332430789&w=2 I'm sorry if the copy-paste will be obfuscated by sourceforge, unfortunately I can't do much about it. > During these two delays, the hard drive light at the remote > (destination) PC is continuously on Good catch! It would be very nice to test this if the remote host isn't Windows with NTFS but a Unix Samba server. I bet you wouldn't have this problem unless the SMB (CIFS) protocol mandates this must be the behavior (I doubt) Some further investigation revealed, the file IO operations doesn't work the same way on NTFS as on Unix filesystems because the softwares must set explicitely the file sparse on NTFS to get the same behaviour as on Unix (no extra coding needed on Unix). I'm not sure this is possible via smbfs ... actually I'm afraid, probably it's quite impossible. Workaround for this case is what you also reported to work (but it's ususally much slower, however in that case it should be compressed better). ntfsclone -o - device > /mnt/windows_share/ntfs.img I'll add detection and a diagnostic message, suggestion to ntfsclone for the failing case. As for the long term, there will be an additional image format that won't have this problem. Hopefully it will be Partimage's image format, we're already investigating/discussing how to replace Partimage experimental NTFS support with the stable Linux-NTFS code. That way people would have both GUI and command line backup/restore tools using the same image format and NTFS code. ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=44085 |
