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"James Ausmus" <james.ausmus@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> Rephrasing the question: Will it work to mount a hosts (gentoo host) |
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>> native onboard drives as cifs mounts only. These drives would all be |
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>> formatted NTFS |
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> In short - no. |
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> Samba/CIFS are *network* filesystems - you can't "format a partition |
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> with a Samba or CIFS filesystem", and you can't mount a local drive as |
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> Samba or CIFS - it is not a physical filesystem, but a protocol to |
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> access a share *over a network*. |
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> All you need to do is format these drives with the filesystem of your |
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> choice (I personally like ReiserFS, I've heard some people say that |
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OK, I seem to have been tying myself in unnecessary knots (not an |
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unknown state for me). |
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I seem to recall somewhere having seen something that made me think |
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there was some problem inherent in moving large files from one of the |
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linux formats (I use Reiserfs on all but /boot and have for a good |
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while) onto NTFS or vice versa. |
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I wasn't sure it would be as transparent as you say. Is this just a |
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myth I've picked up somewhere? I guess it would not be that hard to |
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test out. |
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I'm thinking to test a format conversion from CanopusDV.avi to mpeg2 |
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streams like one uses for DVD authoring, putting the source *.avi of |
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some 15gb on my gentoo box on an reiserfs partition. Then from the |
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windows XP where the conversion application resides find the source |
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file and give the destination of the mpeg files onto one of the NTFS |
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partitions on the win box. |
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Time that run then do it with two windows XP boxes with source on one |
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and conversion tools on the other. time that run and compare. |
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Not scientific for sure but should give some fairly good comparison. |
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All boxes have gigabit interconnectivity. |
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If its not to far apart I'll say I was hoodwinked about there being a |
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problem. |
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