Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:02:00 +0100 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: Bugs in 2.5.28 [scsi/framebuffer/devfs/floppy/ntfs/trident] |
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At 12:50 01/08/02, Nico Schottelius wrote: >Anton Altaparmakov [Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:28:05PM +0100]: > > I am interested in this ntfs report. Which way round was the loopback > file? > > I.e. did you mount: mount -t ntfs -o loop somefile_on_a_non_ntfs_partition > > or did you mount: mount -t some_file_system -o loop > > somefile_on_an_ntfs_partion? > >mount -t ntfs -o loop file.sav-on-ext2-or-on-xfs[when using 2.4.18] /mnt > > > Can you send me the errors produced? If there is an oops, please decode > and > > send it, too. > >The test I did was the following [may I call that test ?]: > >cd /mnt; mkdir /ntfs_on_ext3; cp -r * /ntfs_on_ext3 >While copying, with or without debug, the system hangs, but top only reports >7 % cpu load. > >Copying the files results in a input / output error.
Interesting.
>It has never been an oops and actually 2.5.29 does _not_ hangup anymore! >Still it stops to copy the files and aborts. >I am currently retrying with debug enabled... > > > Also it may be useful to have the debug output from ntfs (depending on > what > > the errors/oops say - they may be sufficient to pinpoint the problem), > i.e. > > enable debugging when configuring the kernel, and then as root do: echo > 1 > > > /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug. Note this will absolutely flood you with debug > > output so the system will run slow as hell... So it is best to only enable > > debug messages just before the error occurs if that is possible. > >oops. forget that above. Oh yes, ntfs is really reporting much. >You can find the output at ftp.schottelius.org:/pub/tmp, it's about >600k compressed.
Where is it? It doesn't appear - I just looked...
>I am really happy that this time the cp did not hald my system! > >p.s.: what was the maximal file size on ext3 ? I just gunzipped a 4gb > file (the ntfs image the whole story is about), which could not > be transfered through scp/ftp in this size...
Sorry not sure. I think it is dependent on the fs block size you use...
Anton
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