Re: NTFS support

Marten Kemp wrote:
My main fileswerver just went casters-up.
It was a dual 1gHz system running Win Server 2003. The data are
on six SCSI drives in a hardware RAID formatted as NTFS, with the
OS on a single non-RAID drive. I have an old dual 550mHz server to
which I can move the drives and adapter but it'll be 'way too slow
for Windows. If I load Linux on a separate non-RAID drive like I
did for the Windows server will it be able to read the data well
enough for me to move it to some other storage?

Giggling for "linux NTFS" gives me a lot of hits and the impression
that this is okay, but I'd like some confirmation.

certainly should be.

BTW your old hardware 'too slow for windows' will probably outperfrom the crashed machine, with samba on it. And be more reliable..

AFAICR all you need to do is bring up a bare bones samba equipped machine, and mount the RAID stuff. There may well be some mount options in fstab, but that's it.

If it does prove too slow for your network, you can tar the data off onto something else..

BUT if the data is simply file serving, I reckon samba/linux outperforms Windows server by several times. Just load it up with RAM - and watch memory usage and CPU loads.
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