January 8, 201115 yr ntfs-3g has come a very long way in the past 5 years. A recent post from limetech stated we will soon be able to NTFS (or any supported filesystem) for the cache drive. The current ntfs driver in unRAID is the old read-only driver. In my personal opinion, a read-only cache drive is not anywhere near as useful as one where reading and writing is possible. (and probably much slower too, since all attempts to write to it will fail) The major use of the ntfs-3g driver will be by those who are migrating their files from previous servers. (and lately a lot of WHS owners are looking to migrate) but many will want to be able to take advantage of their ntfs drives in read/write mode. The newest ntfs-3g driver even supports compressed files and folders and all the extended attributes in native windows. I think the only feature missing at this time is support for encrypted file systems.. I think it is time for it to be included in unRAID. Read about it here: http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ Joe L.
January 8, 201115 yr +1 If unRAID had native NTFS support and native EXT3 (and 4?) support, it would pretty much have everyone covered for data migration.
February 19, 201115 yr So, would this ability allow existing data to be integrated into an array without clearing/formatting the drive?
February 19, 201115 yr So, would this ability allow existing data to be integrated into an array without clearing/formatting the drive? No, not this specific feature request.
February 19, 201115 yr No, not this specific feature request. So what exactly does this mean for us as users?
February 19, 201115 yr So what exactly does this mean for us as users? This would allow a user to mount an NTFS drive outside the array and then transfer data to a drive within the array.
February 19, 201115 yr So what exactly does this mean for us as users? This would allow a user to mount an NTFS drive outside the array and then transfer data to a drive within the array. Gotcha. That would make it MUCH faster than going over the network even including moving the drive from one system to the server.
February 19, 201115 yr Author So what exactly does this mean for us as users? This would allow a user to mount an NTFS drive outside the array and then transfer data to a drive within the array. You can do that today... The ntfs-3g driver allows you to WRITE to the NTFS drive, the ntfs driver currently included in unRAID is a read-only driver. It is not capable of writing to drives. To use the existing read-only driver you just need to install it by typing modprobe ntfs as described in the wiki: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Copy_files_from_a_NTFS_drive We've been able to do that for years. Joe L.
April 27, 201115 yr Regarding copying files from an NTFS Drive mounted inside the unRaid Server to the unRaid array, are the transmission speeds of the directly installed drive higher then when i copy the files via GB Lan? I just ask because i now that i tried some NTFS Drivers on my Mac and some of them where so slow that it was a better idea to copy the files over the network.
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