On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > El sábado, 2 de diciembre de 2006 20:44, Frans Pop escribió:
> > > On Saturday 02 December 2006 14:36, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I put a statically linked version here to ease the testing.
> > > > http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ntfsresize-1.13.1.1.tgz
> > >
> > > This version makes Vista happy too. After reboot chkdsk is executed and
> > > on second reboot Vista boots successfully.
>
> Thanks. So we know now the technical reason why ntfsresize didn't work
> previously. Vista deliberately refuses to mount NTFS if it thinks it was
> mounted by NT4. Though this wasn't very clear from the halt message :-)
Yes there not being a halt message at all! Nice to know, thanks for
working it out! It is very intersting that they no longer allow NT4 to
access Vista NTFS volumes. I still wonder whether this may be a Vista bug
rather than intentional...
Interesting though, what happens when you present Vista with an NTFS 1.2
version formatted volume? Will it refuse to boot, too or will it simply
upgrade it like 2k/XP did? If it refuses to boot it is time to remove the
mkntfs v1.2 support now so people can't by accident create old style
volumes that will break Vista...
> Anton was happy with the not understood fix which in fact was a bug in his
> patch which made Vista to boot by pure luck. To be honest, I've been
I object to it being called a bug. I very consicously removed the mounted
by NT4 flag setting as linux-ntfs operates like NT5 not NT4 so it is silly
to set the flag. I have even been considering removing support for NT4
volumes and upgrading them on mount like Win2k/XP do, perhaps with an
option to disable (or enable) this behaviour...
The only place the NT4 flag has is to be set by ntfsfix on volumes after
being written to with the old ntfs driver which hopefully is no longer in
use so ntfsfix does not need to set that flag either any more... Remember
that this was what I wrote ntfsfix for in the first place: to make writing
with the old driver at least a little bit less broken...
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
