geka
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Post by geka on Sept 28, 2007 0:46:26 GMT 7
Hye all (coders and owners). I have 3 x N2100 in raid 0 mode ! All works great, BUT: I have to buy and manage a Linksys NSLU2 for NTFS/USB share with write accesss !?... It is a USB/HUB share with ntfs write access. Is it possible to have, or made (with documentation) a port of the NTFS-3G on a N2100 MODULE like ? It is THE feature that will make the thecus THE great product I like !  With a HUB and some NTFS DISK in usb mode, with automount. Is Thecus, will provide a kernel soon ? Is it possible to make (like hfs+ was done by is great coder) a module ? I can test, code (with documentation)... And I'm sure I'm not the only one who want this feature. thanks in advance... edited: getmythe done t (again) THE THECUS "TWEAKS' MASTER"  |
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Post by changlinn on Oct 22, 2007 9:13:12 GMT 7
iirc the NTFS-3g for Linux is a kernel module, so it may not be able/difficult to do with the stock thecus version of linux installed. There is a guide on how to get Debian on the thecus 2100, that maybe your best option.
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Post by getmythe on Feb 2, 2008 17:59:09 GMT 7
I did some performance measurements with the latest ntfs-3g version 1.2129 running data transfers from an NTFS formatted 400 GB USBHDD to the internal harddrive. Read performance is around 6Mbyte/sec whereas write is around 1 Mbyte/sec with the CPU at 100%. Tests has been done transferring a 1Gbyte file.
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Post by geka on Feb 7, 2008 10:11:52 GMT 7
great work... just had to modify : mkdir /raid/usbhdd/external /etc/fstab
/dev/sdg1 /raid/usbhdd/external ntfs3g defaults 0 0 and add in "/raid/module/NTFS3G/shell/module.rc, the line
ln -fs /raid/module/"$mod_name"/system/sbin/mount.ntfs3g /sbin/mount.ntfs3g
hotplug seem not to work, and the META script needed (2.3.04) is not out there (only 2.3.03). verry poor performance in writing, seems correct in reading. thanks for all... |
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Post by getmythe on Feb 8, 2008 1:05:36 GMT 7
Thx for debugging!
the link has been added to NTFS3G's module.rc and META 2.3.04 has been uploaded as well
cheers
getmythe
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Post by geka on Feb 8, 2008 5:12:12 GMT 7
Thx for debugging! the link has been added to NTFS3G's module.rc and META 2.3.04 has been uploaded as well cheers getmythe great !!! I'll test it now ... edited: after some testing. if ntfs3g "failed" to load in write (asking for a checkdisk)... a simple ntfs3g.probe --readwrite /dev/... make it working well !... can it be automated ? great work at all... thanks again...  |
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Post by getmythe on Feb 8, 2008 15:03:58 GMT 7
Yes, it could be done, but there are two very good reasons not to do it. First, the utility ntfs3g.probe is only two weeks old and second it does modify same basic paramters on the disk. An operation which I consider rather dangerous since it is not reversible.
Maybe adding a button on the options page of the module would be an alternative.
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Post by geka on Feb 14, 2008 15:22:59 GMT 7
and what do you think about adding a
-o force
in the usb_mount_any meta tag ? it may be do the fix. |
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Post by getmythe on Feb 17, 2008 4:53:19 GMT 7
The man page contains a clear warning that option force is dangerous  |
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Post by geka on Feb 18, 2008 2:29:09 GMT 7
The man page contains a clear warning that option force is dangerous oops ! have to find another way... |
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Post by getmythe on Feb 18, 2008 16:01:29 GMT 7
Just for clarification
META script mount_any_usbdrive.sh.off does use ntfs-3g.probe --readwrite to decide if the ntfs-3g driver should be used for mounting. If the probe returns any warning or error the mount process is handed over to the default mount statement.
If your ntfs drive fails to mount in read-write I would recommend you run a filesystem check on your PC
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Post by bluearcus on Sept 1, 2009 21:06:22 GMT 7
Hi all,
Any chance of an update to v1.0 of this module to incorporate the latest NTFS3g releases? There are quite a lot of stability and performance fixes which would be good to have!
Regards,
Mike
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