I didn't mount as readonly, but I didn't write to it also. I'm
speculating that the implementation on Fedora and macOS are broken in
the same way so that they can actually read each other's broken output.
I thought that NTFS supported just got merged into the kernel some weeks
before? Anyone know about the progress?
On 4/26/22 05:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 10:41 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:11 AM Lily White
>> <lilywhite2005@outlook.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I got a spare drive and it does work (at least for now, this drive
>>> worked for a while before everything broke). So I sent my old drive
>>> back
>>> to Sandisk and I'll see if it was with that specific model.
>>>
>>> I'll also wait for some time and see if wear and tear may cause
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> What's interesting is that the broken drive works on both Fedora
>>> and
>>> macOS, but not Windows. That's why I didn't speculate the drive
>>> itself
>>> was broken before.
>>>
>>>
>> I am going to bet that the NTFS code is very similar on Fedora and
>> MacOS.
>> So likely it is a code bug or a usage bug (see comments below).
>>
>> you did make sure to umount it on Linux/BSD before removing it right?
>>
>> And if you hibernate the machine(any os) and remove the usb device
>> while
>> hibernated the filesystem may not be consistent, it has to be
>> explicitly
>> unmounted on both windows and fedora before removal so that all data
>> is
>> fully written.
>>
>> In the past it was suggested to not use NTFS as a transfer drive and
>> to use
>> something simpler like FAT32 as that fs's format is better documented
>> and
>> simpler than NTFS. That may or may not still be the case.
>
> Most NTFS installation on Linux use a user-space implementation via
> Fuse, which is known to have some limitations (IIRC it's fine for
> reading but might be problematic when writing). A new kernel-based
> implementation is apparently on the way and is said to have a higher
> degree of compatibility.
>
> poc
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