[aklug] Re: NTFS Mounting on Windows

It might be worth it to look at RoboCopy with the command line switches to
max out the bandwidth and transfer speed, you might be surprised what
RoboCopy can do. Tera copy also can greatly speed up large file copies.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016, 9:48 PM Christopher Howard <ch.howard@zoho.com> wrote:

> The problem I had there was very slow transfer time over the network. In
> my use case it is a pretty big deal because I am transferring file of
> 200 GB and greater. Using a drive directly plugged in through USB I was
> able to get 40 MB/s transfer, which is lousy, but I think it was a lot
> better than what I was getting over the network with disk read + net
> transfer + disk write. I think the Ethernet setup in our office is
> rather poorly designed as well, which probably doesn't help anything.
> (The entire office convergences onto a single cat 5 before entering into
> the server room.)
>
> On 04/01/2016 07:01 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
> > Does your use allow the use of Samba to share/archive/? files?
> >
> > Greg M
> >
> > On 04/01/2016 09:51 AM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> >> Ugh... the only reason I am using NTFS is because it can be shared
> >> between Linux and Windows...
> >>
> >> On 04/01/2016 09:46 AM, Royce Williams wrote:
> >>> Could be antivirus or some other "gimme silent and total access to any
> >>> new drives for a while" sort of thing.
> >>>
> >>> Also, semi-unrelated: be very wary of sharing NTFS disks between Linux
> >>> and Windows. Specifically, strict Windows NTFS forbids characters in
> >>> filenames that the default Linux implementation does not. Colons are a
> >>> big one. Unless you specify the "windows_names" flag in your Linux
> >>> mount, it will happily let you create Windows-incompatible filenames
> >>>
> >>> Here's the kicker. If you then take that drive and plug it into a
> >>> Windows system, if a filesystem check is triggered, it will
> >>> *immediately* start *deleting* all "invalid" filenames without
> >>> warning. Yeah.
> >>>
> >>> Guess who found this out the hard way. :/
> >>>
> >>> http://consortiumlibrary.org/lists/aklug/archive/2013-01/0038.html
> >>>
> >>> Royce
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Christopher Howard
> >>> <christopher@alaskasi.com <mailto:christopher@alaskasi.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Does Windows do any kind of file system checks or block sorting
> >>> automatically on NTFS volumes when you first plug them in (i.e.,
> >>> through a USB connection)? I had this situation where I plugged a
> >>> drive into a Windows box, then I tried to eject it, but the
> >>> ejection process stalled (I could select eject but nothing would
> >>> happen). After 10 minutes of no-response, I gave up and just
> >>> unplugged the drive, which I thought would be safe because I had
> >>> not actually done any writes as far as I knew. THEN the Windows
> >>> box finally gave me an error saying not to unplug the device
> >>> because ejection is in progress, and afterwards the files on the
> >>> drive were corrupted — still there, but full of IO errors.
> >>>
> >>> Obvious lesson is don't unplug anything until Windows has given
> >>> the okay (or better, never attach anything to a Windows box), but
> >>> I am also trying to understand what might have happened on the
> >>> technical level to corrupt the data.
> >>>
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