Re: ntfs kills

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, November 1, 2003, at 12:32 PM, James Frazer wrote:

> It's probably my own fault for being reckless enough to attempt to 
> mount an ntfs partition -- but it turns out it totally trashed my 
> DragonFly install.  Froze the machine up pretty hard then it 
> spontaneously rebooted.
>
> fsck seemed to hang upon boot, and a single-user mode fsck returns a 
> swap error.
>
> Any ideas?  Should I even waste anymore time with this, or just do a 
> new install?

There are a few major problems with the NTFS code at this time. I've 
been able
to produce several panic's while attempting to utilize the code. I 
would recommend
against casual use of mounting NTFS disks at this time until a few of 
the problems
can be fixed. I'd also be happy to test fixes you might come up with.


-DR