Re: [ntfs-3g-devel] ntfs-3g not working with unison

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

Hi,

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Benjamin Adler wrote:

> I'm using ntfs-3g 1.0 with fuse 2.6.3 and a 2.6.20 kernel on gentoo/amd64. 
> Mounting and using NTFS drives works just fine, except when trying to 
> synchronize files with unison-2.17.1.
> 
> mount -l says:
> /dev/sda6 on /mnt/daten type fuseblk 
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
> 
> and the line in fstab is
> /dev/sda6               /mnt/daten      ntfs-3g         
> auto,users,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000,rw,locale=de_DE.utf8      0 0

Try without the uid, gid and umask options and mounted as root. 
 
> Unison works fine when syncing to an ext3-filesystem, but when synching to 
> ntfs, I get the following errors:
> 
> [thread] Exception caught by Thread.unwindProtect: Failed to set permissions 
> of 
> file /mnt/daten/ebay/.#RIMG0008.JPG.bdbd9022684c136bb5f52a5b1ca7ce9e.unison.tmp 
> to rw-r--r--: the permissions was set to rwxrwxrwx instead

This is expected, no such level of file permission handling is implemented.

> In the end, the synchronized files simply don't exist on the ntfs target.

I tried unison now and it worked fine for me. Version 2.9.1.

Regards,
	Szaka