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file operations ->write(), ->aio_write(), and ->writev() for regular
files. This replaces the old use of generic_file_write(), et al and
the address space operations ->prepare_write and ->commit_write.
This means that both sparse and non-sparse (unencrypted and
uncompressed) files can now be extended using the normal write(2)
code path. There are two limitations at present and these are that
we never create sparse files and that we only have limited support
for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones whose data attribute is split
across multiple extents. When such a case is encountered,
EOPNOTSUPP is returned.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
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The Linux NTFS filesystem driver
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Table of contents
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=================
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- Overview
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- Web site
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- Features
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- Supported mount options
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- Known bugs and (mis-)features
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- Using NTFS volume and stripe sets
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- The Device-Mapper driver
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- The Software RAID / MD driver
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- Limitiations when using the MD driver
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- ChangeLog
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Overview
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========
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Linux-NTFS comes with a number of user-space programs known as ntfsprogs.
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These include mkntfs, a full-featured ntfs filesystem format utility,
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ntfsundelete used for recovering files that were unintentionally deleted
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from an NTFS volume and ntfsresize which is used to resize an NTFS partition.
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See the web site for more information.
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To mount an NTFS 1.2/3.x (Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003) volume, use the file
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system type 'ntfs'. The driver currently supports read-only mode (with no
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fault-tolerance, encryption or journalling) and very limited, but safe, write
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support.
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For fault tolerance and raid support (i.e. volume and stripe sets), you can
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use the kernel's Software RAID / MD driver. See section "Using Software RAID
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with NTFS" for details.
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Web site
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========
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There is plenty of additional information on the linux-ntfs web site
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at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/
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The web site has a lot of additional information, such as a comprehensive
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FAQ, documentation on the NTFS on-disk format, informaiton on the Linux-NTFS
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userspace utilities, etc.
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Features
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========
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- This is a complete rewrite of the NTFS driver that used to be in the 2.4 and
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earlier kernels. This new driver implements NTFS read support and is
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functionally equivalent to the old ntfs driver and it also implements limited
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write support. The biggest limitation at present is that files/directories
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cannot be created or deleted. See below for the list of write features that
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are so far supported. Another limitation is that writing to compressed files
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is not implemented at all. Also, neither read nor write access to encrypted
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files is so far implemented.
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- The new driver has full support for sparse files on NTFS 3.x volumes which
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the old driver isn't happy with.
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- The new driver supports execution of binaries due to mmap() now being
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supported.
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- The new driver supports loopback mounting of files on NTFS which is used by
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some Linux distributions to enable the user to run Linux from an NTFS
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partition by creating a large file while in Windows and then loopback
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mounting the file while in Linux and creating a Linux filesystem on it that
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is used to install Linux on it.
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- A comparison of the two drivers using:
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time find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
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run three times in sequence with each driver (after a reboot) on a 1.4GiB
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NTFS partition, showed the new driver to be 20% faster in total time elapsed
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(from 9:43 minutes on average down to 7:53). The time spent in user space
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was unchanged but the time spent in the kernel was decreased by a factor of
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2.5 (from 85 CPU seconds down to 33).
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- The driver does not support short file names in general. For backwards
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compatibility, we implement access to files using their short file names if
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they exist. The driver will not create short file names however, and a
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rename will discard any existing short file name.
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- The new driver supports exporting of mounted NTFS volumes via NFS.
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- The new driver supports async io (aio).
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- The new driver supports fsync(2), fdatasync(2), and msync(2).
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- The new driver supports readv(2) and writev(2).
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- The new driver supports access time updates (including mtime and ctime).
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- The new driver supports truncate(2) and open(2) with O_TRUNC. But at present
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only very limited support for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones which have
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their data attribute split across multiple extents, is included. Another
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limitation is that at present truncate(2) will never create sparse files,
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since to mark a file sparse we need to modify the directory entry for the
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file and we do not implement directory modifications yet.
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- The new driver supports write(2) which can both overwrite existing data and
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extend the file size so that you can write beyond the existing data. Also,
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writing into sparse regions is supported and the holes are filled in with
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clusters. But at present only limited support for highly fragmented files,
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i.e. ones which have their data attribute split across multiple extents, is
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included. Another limitation is that write(2) will never create sparse
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files, since to mark a file sparse we need to modify the directory entry for
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the file and we do not implement directory modifications yet.
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Supported mount options
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=======================
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In addition to the generic mount options described by the manual page for the
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mount command (man 8 mount, also see man 5 fstab), the NTFS driver supports the
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following mount options:
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iocharset=name Deprecated option. Still supported but please use
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nls=name in the future. See description for nls=name.
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nls=name Character set to use when returning file names.
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Unlike VFAT, NTFS suppresses names that contain
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unconvertible characters. Note that most character
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sets contain insufficient characters to represent all
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possible Unicode characters that can exist on NTFS.
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To be sure you are not missing any files, you are
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advised to use nls=utf8 which is capable of
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representing all Unicode characters.
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utf8=<bool> Option no longer supported. Currently mapped to
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nls=utf8 but please use nls=utf8 in the future and
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make sure utf8 is compiled either as module or into
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the kernel. See description for nls=name.
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uid=
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gid=
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umask= Provide default owner, group, and access mode mask.
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These options work as documented in mount(8). By
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default, the files/directories are owned by root and
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he/she has read and write permissions, as well as
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browse permission for directories. No one else has any
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access permissions. I.e. the mode on all files is by
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default rw------- and for directories rwx------, a
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consequence of the default fmask=0177 and dmask=0077.
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Using a umask of zero will grant all permissions to
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everyone, i.e. all files and directories will have mode
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rwxrwxrwx.
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fmask=
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dmask= Instead of specifying umask which applies both to
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files and directories, fmask applies only to files and
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dmask only to directories.
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sloppy=<BOOL> If sloppy is specified, ignore unknown mount options.
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Otherwise the default behaviour is to abort mount if
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any unknown options are found.
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show_sys_files=<BOOL> If show_sys_files is specified, show the system files
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in directory listings. Otherwise the default behaviour
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is to hide the system files.
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Note that even when show_sys_files is specified, "$MFT"
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will not be visible due to bugs/mis-features in glibc.
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Further, note that irrespective of show_sys_files, all
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files are accessible by name, i.e. you can always do
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"ls -l \$UpCase" for example to specifically show the
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system file containing the Unicode upcase table.
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case_sensitive=<BOOL> If case_sensitive is specified, treat all file names as
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case sensitive and create file names in the POSIX
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namespace. Otherwise the default behaviour is to treat
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file names as case insensitive and to create file names
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in the WIN32/LONG name space. Note, the Linux NTFS
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driver will never create short file names and will
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remove them on rename/delete of the corresponding long
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file name.
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Note that files remain accessible via their short file
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name, if it exists. If case_sensitive, you will need
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to provide the correct case of the short file name.
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disable_sparse=<BOOL> If disable_sparse is specified, creation of sparse
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regions, i.e. holes, inside files is disabled for the
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volume (for the duration of this mount only). By
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default, creation of sparse regions is enabled, which
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is consistent with the behaviour of traditional Unix
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filesystems.
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errors=opt What to do when critical filesystem errors are found.
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Following values can be used for "opt":
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continue: DEFAULT, try to clean-up as much as
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possible, e.g. marking a corrupt inode as
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bad so it is no longer accessed, and then
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continue.
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recover: At present only supported is recovery of
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the boot sector from the backup copy.
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If read-only mount, the recovery is done
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in memory only and not written to disk.
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Note that the options are additive, i.e. specifying:
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errors=continue,errors=recover
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means the driver will attempt to recover and if that
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fails it will clean-up as much as possible and
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continue.
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mft_zone_multiplier= Set the MFT zone multiplier for the volume (this
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setting is not persistent across mounts and can be
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changed from mount to mount but cannot be changed on
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remount). Values of 1 to 4 are allowed, 1 being the
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default. The MFT zone multiplier determines how much
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space is reserved for the MFT on the volume. If all
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other space is used up, then the MFT zone will be
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shrunk dynamically, so this has no impact on the
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amount of free space. However, it can have an impact
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on performance by affecting fragmentation of the MFT.
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In general use the default. If you have a lot of small
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files then use a higher value. The values have the
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following meaning:
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Value MFT zone size (% of volume size)
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1 12.5%
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2 25%
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3 37.5%
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4 50%
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Note this option is irrelevant for read-only mounts.
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Known bugs and (mis-)features
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=============================
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- The link count on each directory inode entry is set to 1, due to Linux not
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supporting directory hard links. This may well confuse some user space
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applications, since the directory names will have the same inode numbers.
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This also speeds up ntfs_read_inode() immensely. And we haven't found any
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problems with this approach so far. If you find a problem with this, please
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let us know.
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Please send bug reports/comments/feedback/abuse to the Linux-NTFS development
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list at sourceforge: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
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Using NTFS volume and stripe sets
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=================================
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For support of volume and stripe sets, you can either use the kernel's
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Device-Mapper driver or the kernel's Software RAID / MD driver. The former is
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the recommended one to use for linear raid. But the latter is required for
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raid level 5. For striping and mirroring, either driver should work fine.
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The Device-Mapper driver
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------------------------
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You will need to create a table of the components of the volume/stripe set and
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how they fit together and load this into the kernel using the dmsetup utility
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(see man 8 dmsetup).
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Linear volume sets, i.e. linear raid, has been tested and works fine. Even
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though untested, there is no reason why stripe sets, i.e. raid level 0, and
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mirrors, i.e. raid level 1 should not work, too. Stripes with parity, i.e.
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raid level 5, unfortunately cannot work yet because the current version of the
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Device-Mapper driver does not support raid level 5. You may be able to use the
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Software RAID / MD driver for raid level 5, see the next section for details.
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To create the table describing your volume you will need to know each of its
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components and their sizes in sectors, i.e. multiples of 512-byte blocks.
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For NT4 fault tolerant volumes you can obtain the sizes using fdisk. So for
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example if one of your partitions is /dev/hda2 you would do:
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$ fdisk -ul /dev/hda
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Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders, total 160086528 sectors
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Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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/dev/hda1 * 63 4209029 2104483+ 83 Linux
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/dev/hda2 4209030 37768814 16779892+ 86 NTFS
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/dev/hda3 37768815 46170809 4200997+ 83 Linux
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And you would know that /dev/hda2 has a size of 37768814 - 4209030 + 1 =
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33559785 sectors.
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For Win2k and later dynamic disks, you can for example use the ldminfo utility
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which is part of the Linux LDM tools (the latest version at the time of
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writing is linux-ldm-0.0.8.tar.bz2). You can download it from:
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http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
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Simply extract the downloaded archive (tar xvjf linux-ldm-0.0.8.tar.bz2), go
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into it (cd linux-ldm-0.0.8) and change to the test directory (cd test). You
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will find the precompiled (i386) ldminfo utility there. NOTE: You will not be
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able to compile this yourself easily so use the binary version!
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Then you would use ldminfo in dump mode to obtain the necessary information:
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$ ./ldminfo --dump /dev/hda
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This would dump the LDM database found on /dev/hda which describes all of your
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dynamic disks and all the volumes on them. At the bottom you will see the
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VOLUME DEFINITIONS section which is all you really need. You may need to look
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further above to determine which of the disks in the volume definitions is
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which device in Linux. Hint: Run ldminfo on each of your dynamic disks and
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look at the Disk Id close to the top of the output for each (the PRIVATE HEADER
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section). You can then find these Disk Ids in the VBLK DATABASE section in the
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<Disk> components where you will get the LDM Name for the disk that is found in
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the VOLUME DEFINITIONS section.
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Note you will also need to enable the LDM driver in the Linux kernel. If your
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distribution did not enable it, you will need to recompile the kernel with it
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enabled. This will create the LDM partitions on each device at boot time. You
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would then use those devices (for /dev/hda they would be /dev/hda1, 2, 3, etc)
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in the Device-Mapper table.
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You can also bypass using the LDM driver by using the main device (e.g.
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/dev/hda) and then using the offsets of the LDM partitions into this device as
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the "Start sector of device" when creating the table. Once again ldminfo would
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give you the correct information to do this.
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Assuming you know all your devices and their sizes things are easy.
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For a linear raid the table would look like this (note all values are in
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512-byte sectors):
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--- cut here ---
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# Offset into Size of this Raid type Device Start sector
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# volume device of device
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0 1028161 linear /dev/hda1 0
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1028161 3903762 linear /dev/hdb2 0
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4931923 2103211 linear /dev/hdc1 0
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--- cut here ---
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For a striped volume, i.e. raid level 0, you will need to know the chunk size
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you used when creating the volume. Windows uses 64kiB as the default, so it
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will probably be this unless you changes the defaults when creating the array.
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For a raid level 0 the table would look like this (note all values are in
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512-byte sectors):
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--- cut here ---
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# Offset Size Raid Number Chunk 1st Start 2nd Start
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# into of the type of size Device in Device in
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# volume volume stripes device device
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0 2056320 striped 2 128 /dev/hda1 0 /dev/hdb1 0
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--- cut here ---
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If there are more than two devices, just add each of them to the end of the
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line.
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Finally, for a mirrored volume, i.e. raid level 1, the table would look like
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this (note all values are in 512-byte sectors):
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--- cut here ---
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# Ofs Size Raid Log Number Region Should Number Source Start Taget Start
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# in of the type type of log size sync? of Device in Device in
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# vol volume params mirrors Device Device
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0 2056320 mirror core 2 16 nosync 2 /dev/hda1 0 /dev/hdb1 0
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--- cut here ---
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If you are mirroring to multiple devices you can specify further targets at the
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end of the line.
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Note the "Should sync?" parameter "nosync" means that the two mirrors are
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already in sync which will be the case on a clean shutdown of Windows. If the
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mirrors are not clean, you can specify the "sync" option instead of "nosync"
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and the Device-Mapper driver will then copy the entirey of the "Source Device"
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to the "Target Device" or if you specified multipled target devices to all of
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them.
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Once you have your table, save it in a file somewhere (e.g. /etc/ntfsvolume1),
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and hand it over to dmsetup to work with, like so:
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$ dmsetup create myvolume1 /etc/ntfsvolume1
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You can obviously replace "myvolume1" with whatever name you like.
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If it all worked, you will now have the device /dev/device-mapper/myvolume1
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which you can then just use as an argument to the mount command as usual to
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mount the ntfs volume. For example:
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$ mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/device-mapper/myvolume1 /mnt/myvol1
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(You need to create the directory /mnt/myvol1 first and of course you can use
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anything you like instead of /mnt/myvol1 as long as it is an existing
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directory.)
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It is advisable to do the mount read-only to see if the volume has been setup
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correctly to avoid the possibility of causing damage to the data on the ntfs
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volume.
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The Software RAID / MD driver
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-----------------------------
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An alternative to using the Device-Mapper driver is to use the kernel's
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Software RAID / MD driver. For which you need to set up your /etc/raidtab
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appropriately (see man 5 raidtab).
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Linear volume sets, i.e. linear raid, as well as stripe sets, i.e. raid level
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0, have been tested and work fine (though see section "Limitiations when using
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the MD driver with NTFS volumes" especially if you want to use linear raid).
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Even though untested, there is no reason why mirrors, i.e. raid level 1, and
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stripes with parity, i.e. raid level 5, should not work, too.
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You have to use the "persistent-superblock 0" option for each raid-disk in the
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NTFS volume/stripe you are configuring in /etc/raidtab as the persistent
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superblock used by the MD driver would damange the NTFS volume.
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Windows by default uses a stripe chunk size of 64k, so you probably want the
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"chunk-size 64k" option for each raid-disk, too.
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For example, if you have a stripe set consisting of two partitions /dev/hda5
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and /dev/hdb1 your /etc/raidtab would look like this:
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raiddev /dev/md0
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raid-level 0
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nr-raid-disks 2
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nr-spare-disks 0
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persistent-superblock 0
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chunk-size 64k
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device /dev/hda5
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raid-disk 0
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device /dev/hdb1
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raid-disl 1
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For linear raid, just change the raid-level above to "raid-level linear", for
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mirrors, change it to "raid-level 1", and for stripe sets with parity, change
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it to "raid-level 5".
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Note for stripe sets with parity you will also need to tell the MD driver
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which parity algorithm to use by specifying the option "parity-algorithm
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which", where you need to replace "which" with the name of the algorithm to
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use (see man 5 raidtab for available algorithms) and you will have to try the
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different available algorithms until you find one that works. Make sure you
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are working read-only when playing with this as you may damage your data
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otherwise. If you find which algorithm works please let us know (email the
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linux-ntfs developers list linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net or drop in on
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IRC in channel #ntfs on the irc.freenode.net network) so we can update this
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documentation.
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Once the raidtab is setup, run for example raid0run -a to start all devices or
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raid0run /dev/md0 to start a particular md device, in this case /dev/md0.
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Then just use the mount command as usual to mount the ntfs volume using for
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example: mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/md0 /mnt/myntfsvolume
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It is advisable to do the mount read-only to see if the md volume has been
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setup correctly to avoid the possibility of causing damage to the data on the
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ntfs volume.
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Limitiations when using the Software RAID / MD driver
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-----------------------------------------------------
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Using the md driver will not work properly if any of your NTFS partitions have
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an odd number of sectors. This is especially important for linear raid as all
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data after the first partition with an odd number of sectors will be offset by
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one or more sectors so if you mount such a partition with write support you
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will cause massive damage to the data on the volume which will only become
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apparent when you try to use the volume again under Windows.
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So when using linear raid, make sure that all your partitions have an even
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number of sectors BEFORE attempting to use it. You have been warned!
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Even better is to simply use the Device-Mapper for linear raid and then you do
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not have this problem with odd numbers of sectors.
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ChangeLog
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=========
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Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog.
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2.1.25:
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- Write support is now extended with write(2) being able to both
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overwrite existing file data and to extend files. Also, if a write
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to a sparse region occurs, write(2) will fill in the hole. Note,
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mmap(2) based writes still do not support writing into holes or
|
|
writing beyond the initialized size.
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- Write support has a new feature and that is that truncate(2) and
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open(2) with O_TRUNC are now implemented thus files can be both made
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|
smaller and larger.
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- Note: Both write(2) and truncate(2)/open(2) with O_TRUNC still have
|
|
limitations in that they
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- only provide limited support for highly fragmented files.
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- only work on regular, i.e. uncompressed and unencrypted files.
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- never create sparse files although this will change once directory
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|
operations are implemented.
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- Lots of bug fixes and enhancements across the board.
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2.1.24:
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- Support journals ($LogFile) which have been modified by chkdsk. This
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means users can boot into Windows after we marked the volume dirty.
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The Windows boot will run chkdsk and then reboot. The user can then
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|
immediately boot into Linux rather than having to do a full Windows
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|
boot first before rebooting into Linux and we will recognize such a
|
|
journal and empty it as it is clean by definition.
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|
- Support journals ($LogFile) with only one restart page as well as
|
|
journals with two different restart pages. We sanity check both and
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|
either use the only sane one or the more recent one of the two in the
|
|
case that both are valid.
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- Lots of bug fixes and enhancements across the board.
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|
2.1.23:
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- Stamp the user space journal, aka transaction log, aka $UsnJrnl, if
|
|
it is present and active thus telling Windows and applications using
|
|
the transaction log that changes can have happened on the volume
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|
which are not recorded in $UsnJrnl.
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|
- Detect the case when Windows has been hibernated (suspended to disk)
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|
and if this is the case do not allow (re)mounting read-write to
|
|
prevent data corruption when you boot back into the suspended
|
|
Windows session.
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- Implement extension of resident files using the normal file write
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|
code paths, i.e. most very small files can be extended to be a little
|
|
bit bigger but not by much.
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|
- Add new mount option "disable_sparse". (See list of mount options
|
|
above for details.)
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|
- Improve handling of ntfs volumes with errors and strange boot sectors
|
|
in particular.
|
|
- Fix various bugs including a nasty deadlock that appeared in recent
|
|
kernels (around 2.6.11-2.6.12 timeframe).
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|
2.1.22:
|
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- Improve handling of ntfs volumes with errors.
|
|
- Fix various bugs and race conditions.
|
|
2.1.21:
|
|
- Fix several race conditions and various other bugs.
|
|
- Many internal cleanups, code reorganization, optimizations, and mft
|
|
and index record writing code rewritten to fit in with the changes.
|
|
- Update Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt with instructions on how to
|
|
use the Device-Mapper driver with NTFS ftdisk/LDM raid.
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|
2.1.20:
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|
- Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release.
|
|
2.1.19:
|
|
- Minor bugfix in handling of the default upcase table.
|
|
- Many internal cleanups and improvements. Many thanks to Linus
|
|
Torvalds and Al Viro for the help and advice with the sparse
|
|
annotations and cleanups.
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|
2.1.18:
|
|
- Fix scheduling latencies at mount time. (Ingo Molnar)
|
|
- Fix endianness bug in a little traversed portion of the attribute
|
|
lookup code.
|
|
2.1.17:
|
|
- Fix bugs in mount time error code paths.
|
|
2.1.16:
|
|
- Implement access time updates (including mtime and ctime).
|
|
- Implement fsync(2), fdatasync(2), and msync(2) system calls.
|
|
- Enable the readv(2) and writev(2) system calls.
|
|
- Enable access via the asynchronous io (aio) API by adding support for
|
|
the aio_read(3) and aio_write(3) functions.
|
|
2.1.15:
|
|
- Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
|
|
NOTE: This now only leave user space journalling on the side. (See
|
|
note for version 2.1.13, below.)
|
|
2.1.14:
|
|
- Fix an NFSd caused deadlock reported by several users.
|
|
2.1.13:
|
|
- Implement writing of inodes (access time updates are not implemented
|
|
yet so mounting with -o noatime,nodiratime is enforced).
|
|
- Enable writing out of resident files so you can now overwrite any
|
|
uncompressed, unencrypted, nonsparse file as long as you do not
|
|
change the file size.
|
|
- Add housekeeping of ntfs system files so that ntfsfix no longer needs
|
|
to be run after writing to an NTFS volume.
|
|
NOTE: This still leaves quota tracking and user space journalling on
|
|
the side but they should not cause data corruption. In the worst
|
|
case the charged quotas will be out of date ($Quota) and some
|
|
userspace applications might get confused due to the out of date
|
|
userspace journal ($UsnJrnl).
|
|
2.1.12:
|
|
- Fix the second fix to the decompression engine from the 2.1.9 release
|
|
and some further internals cleanups.
|
|
2.1.11:
|
|
- Driver internal cleanups.
|
|
2.1.10:
|
|
- Force read-only (re)mounting of volumes with unsupported volume
|
|
flags and various cleanups.
|
|
2.1.9:
|
|
- Fix two bugs in handling of corner cases in the decompression engine.
|
|
2.1.8:
|
|
- Read the $MFT mirror and compare it to the $MFT and if the two do not
|
|
match, force a read-only mount and do not allow read-write remounts.
|
|
- Read and parse the $LogFile journal and if it indicates that the
|
|
volume was not shutdown cleanly, force a read-only mount and do not
|
|
allow read-write remounts. If the $LogFile indicates a clean
|
|
shutdown and a read-write (re)mount is requested, empty $LogFile to
|
|
ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale
|
|
journal after Linux has written to the volume.
|
|
- Improve time handling so that the NTFS time is fully preserved when
|
|
converted to kernel time and only up to 99 nano-seconds are lost when
|
|
kernel time is converted to NTFS time.
|
|
2.1.7:
|
|
- Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes.
|
|
2.1.6:
|
|
- Fix minor bug in handling of compressed directories that fixes the
|
|
erroneous "du" and "stat" output people reported.
|
|
2.1.5:
|
|
- Minor bug fix in attribute list attribute handling that fixes the
|
|
I/O errors on "ls" of certain fragmented files found by at least two
|
|
people running Windows XP.
|
|
2.1.4:
|
|
- Minor update allowing compilation with all gcc versions (well, the
|
|
ones the kernel can be compiled with anyway).
|
|
2.1.3:
|
|
- Major bug fixes for reading files and volumes in corner cases which
|
|
were being hit by Windows 2k/XP users.
|
|
2.1.2:
|
|
- Major bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs experienced by some
|
|
users.
|
|
2.1.1:
|
|
- Update handling of compressed files so people no longer get the
|
|
frequently reported warning messages about initialized_size !=
|
|
data_size.
|
|
2.1.0:
|
|
- Add configuration option for developmental write support.
|
|
- Initial implementation of file overwriting. (Writes to resident files
|
|
are not written out to disk yet, so avoid writing to files smaller
|
|
than about 1kiB.)
|
|
- Intercept/abort changes in file size as they are not implemented yet.
|
|
2.0.25:
|
|
- Minor bugfixes in error code paths and small cleanups.
|
|
2.0.24:
|
|
- Small internal cleanups.
|
|
- Support for sendfile system call. (Christoph Hellwig)
|
|
2.0.23:
|
|
- Massive internal locking changes to mft record locking. Fixes
|
|
various race conditions and deadlocks.
|
|
- Fix ntfs over loopback for compressed files by adding an
|
|
optimization barrier. (gcc was screwing up otherwise ?)
|
|
Thanks go to Christoph Hellwig for pointing these two out:
|
|
- Remove now unused function fs/ntfs/malloc.h::vmalloc_nofs().
|
|
- Fix ntfs_free() for ia64 and parisc.
|
|
2.0.22:
|
|
- Small internal cleanups.
|
|
2.0.21:
|
|
These only affect 32-bit architectures:
|
|
- Check for, and refuse to mount too large volumes (maximum is 2TiB).
|
|
- Check for, and refuse to open too large files and directories
|
|
(maximum is 16TiB).
|
|
2.0.20:
|
|
- Support non-resident directory index bitmaps. This means we now cope
|
|
with huge directories without problems.
|
|
- Fix a page leak that manifested itself in some cases when reading
|
|
directory contents.
|
|
- Internal cleanups.
|
|
2.0.19:
|
|
- Fix race condition and improvements in block i/o interface.
|
|
- Optimization when reading compressed files.
|
|
2.0.18:
|
|
- Fix race condition in reading of compressed files.
|
|
2.0.17:
|
|
- Cleanups and optimizations.
|
|
2.0.16:
|
|
- Fix stupid bug introduced in 2.0.15 in new attribute inode API.
|
|
- Big internal cleanup replacing the mftbmp access hacks by using the
|
|
new attribute inode API instead.
|
|
2.0.15:
|
|
- Bug fix in parsing of remount options.
|
|
- Internal changes implementing attribute (fake) inodes allowing all
|
|
attribute i/o to go via the page cache and to use all the normal
|
|
vfs/mm functionality.
|
|
2.0.14:
|
|
- Internal changes improving run list merging code and minor locking
|
|
change to not rely on BKL in ntfs_statfs().
|
|
2.0.13:
|
|
- Internal changes towards using iget5_locked() in preparation for
|
|
fake inodes and small cleanups to ntfs_volume structure.
|
|
2.0.12:
|
|
- Internal cleanups in address space operations made possible by the
|
|
changes introduced in the previous release.
|
|
2.0.11:
|
|
- Internal updates and cleanups introducing the first step towards
|
|
fake inode based attribute i/o.
|
|
2.0.10:
|
|
- Microsoft says that the maximum number of inodes is 2^32 - 1. Update
|
|
the driver accordingly to only use 32-bits to store inode numbers on
|
|
32-bit architectures. This improves the speed of the driver a little.
|
|
2.0.9:
|
|
- Change decompression engine to use a single buffer. This should not
|
|
affect performance except perhaps on the most heavy i/o on SMP
|
|
systems when accessing multiple compressed files from multiple
|
|
devices simultaneously.
|
|
- Minor updates and cleanups.
|
|
2.0.8:
|
|
- Remove now obsolete show_inodes and posix mount option(s).
|
|
- Restore show_sys_files mount option.
|
|
- Add new mount option case_sensitive, to determine if the driver
|
|
treats file names as case sensitive or not.
|
|
- Mostly drop support for short file names (for backwards compatibility
|
|
we only support accessing files via their short file name if one
|
|
exists).
|
|
- Fix dcache aliasing issues wrt short/long file names.
|
|
- Cleanups and minor fixes.
|
|
2.0.7:
|
|
- Just cleanups.
|
|
2.0.6:
|
|
- Major bugfix to make compatible with other kernel changes. This fixes
|
|
the hangs/oopses on umount.
|
|
- Locking cleanup in directory operations (remove BKL usage).
|
|
2.0.5:
|
|
- Major buffer overflow bug fix.
|
|
- Minor cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.12.
|
|
2.0.4:
|
|
- Cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.11.
|
|
2.0.3:
|
|
- Small bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements.
|
|
2.0.2:
|
|
- Use default fmask of 0177 so that files are no executable by default.
|
|
If you want owner executable files, just use fmask=0077.
|
|
- Update for kernel 2.5.9 but preserve backwards compatibility with
|
|
kernel 2.5.7.
|
|
- Minor bug fixes, cleanups, and updates.
|
|
2.0.1:
|
|
- Minor updates, primarily set the executable bit by default on files
|
|
so they can be executed.
|
|
2.0.0:
|
|
- Started ChangeLog.
|
|
|