[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS

[Fabio Rodrigues]

Hi Jean-Pierre,

 Just to clarify, it wasn't an USB key, but a 1TB Seagate USB 2.0 external drive. I'll give a try with the lowntfs to check the speed as well.


 Again, thank you very much for your help. I'll forward an e-mail to the OmniOS list and let's see if OmniTI or anybody else will be willing to add fuse/ntfs-3g to the distro. I would do it myself, but I'm far from being a developer ;-)

 Cheers,
 Fabio

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Von: Jean-Pierre
Gesendet: 07.01.13 08:05 Uhr
An: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS

 Fabio Rodrigues wrote: > Hi Jean-Pierre, > > So, I've downloaded the following packages (for OpenIndiana): > > - fuse-kernel-1.0AR.7.pkg > - ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2012.1.15AR.8.pkg64 > > Explanining my choice, I just followed the theory that OmniOS and OpenIndiana share the same illumos core. The installation was successfully and I manage to mount my NTFS USB using command line. I've tested both options (just in case), to mount using "ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p1 /mnt/usb" and "mount -F ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p1 /mnt/usb". When reading the only difference between ro and rw is the updating of access times (not done in ro). In some situations the low level driver ("mount -F lowntfs") may be faster. > > Doing the copies I need and, using rsync (the one available from OmniOS repo), I'm getting about ~7 to 10 MB/s max. Would this be something you're expecting to see as well under OpenIndiana or you think it might be something to do with me using a OpenIndiana package on OmniOS. This is a good throughput to an USB key. On a spinning disk, I get about 20MB/s on Linux, but I have not much experience on OpenIndiana (and none with OmniOS). The bottleneck is generally the fuse communication between the kernel and file system driver in user space. > > More info about my install: > > ################################## > > root at gearloose:~# cat /etc/release > OmniOS v11 r151004 > Copyright 2012 OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved. > Use is subject to license terms. > > root at gearloose:~# pkginfo -l fusefs > PKGINST: fusefs > NAME: fusefs > CATEGORY: filesystem > ARCH: x86 > VERSION: 1.0AR.7 > BASEDIR: /usr > DESC: fusefs - the FUSE kernel module > PSTAMP: openindiana20120824173608 > INSTDATE: Jan 04 2013 19:38 > STATUS: completely installed > FILES: 6 installed pathnames > 3 directories > 2 executables > 170 blocks used (approx) > > root at gearloose:~# pkginfo -l ntfs-3g > PKGINST: ntfs-3g > NAME: ntfs-3g > CATEGORY: filesystem > ARCH: x86_64 > VERSION: 2012.1.15AR.8 > BASEDIR: / > DESC: ntfs-3g - Third Generation Read/Write NTFS Driver > PSTAMP: openindiana20121013141801 > INSTDATE: Jan 04 2013 19:38 > STATUS: completely installed > FILES: 53 installed pathnames > 17 directories > 14 executables > 1894 blocks used (approx) > ################################## > Anyway, besides having that feeling it's a bit slow, so far so good. I was wondering about the possibility of those two packages being available and maintain in the OmniOS repo (this would be more a question to OmniIT maybe?!). As a developer, I only maintain the sources, and just make available the executables which I am using myself. It is up to the distributors to do the packaging with their own tools. I can accept merging into the common source code some ifdef'ed code specific to a distribution. ntfs-3g (including ntfsprogs and the fuse library) is maintained on sourceforge : http://ntfs-3g.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi and the fuse kernel module for OpenIndiana is maintained on github : https://github.com/jurikm/illumos-fusefs/commits/master/ Regards Jean-Pierre > > Thank you very much for your help!!! > > Cheers, > Fabio _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss at openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss



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