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

"Hardware-Raid" can be a real hardware raid controller - the OS of whichever
sort will see one composed disk only, with standard scsi driver, every
configuration is done in raid bios, there may be some additional tool for
windows - or it can as well be a "fakeraid" with a driver necessary for the
OS which will employ the CPU to do the math.
The latter type of "hardware raid" controller does not work without a proper
driver/module for linux.

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?

Linux can read NTFS just fine - but forget about ownerships and extended
attributes on NTFS, let alone streams.
If you want to move your data to a new windows server, you rather want
windows as well to transfer the files. But, unless you have a backup of
your SAM data, there is no point either so you may as well use Samba on
ext3 or xfs.

--
vista policy violation: Microsoft optical mouse found penguin patterns
on mousepad. Partition scan in progress to remove offending
incompatible products. Reactivate MS software.
Linux 2.6.24. [LinuxCounter#295241,ICQ#4918962]
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Space running out
    ... Mobo controller RAID, Windows SW ... Here is the drill on freeing up space on C drives. ... How to move Exchange databases and logs in Exchange Server 2003 ... How to Move Small Business Server 2000 Company and Users Shared Folders ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Software raid problem
    ... Server A is a primary node and Server B is a secondary node. ... running Windows 2003 and are clustered. ... healthy signs on both drives. ... the Windows Disk Management, it couldn't identify the new drive which was ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering)
  • Re: BSOD
    ... I've had tape drives do this to me ... incident on a server so these things don't always stick in your head. ... > indeed possible that these are corrupt, ... > I think you should first try an in-place upgrade reinstall of Windows ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.general)
  • Re: The amazing disappearing VBA code
    ... That's because you've been providing them with mapped drives! ... first Access client to get an NT server was back in 1998. ... PublicData, ClientData, and so forth as your top-level shares, ... There's also the problem of Windows ...
    (microsoft.public.access.modulesdaovba)
  • Re: Moving peer-peer to client/server?
    ... I'll might suggest that they address their data security needs ... While a Windows 2003 ... One alternative is to employ a dedicated file server system. ... drives, and configure them in software for mirroring. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.networking)
Loading