[OmniOS-discuss] [smartos-discuss] Re: Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS

[Alain O'Dea]

Fabio, I may be oversimplifying here, but have you considered mounting it on Linux and then using rsync over ssh to copy the contents.  On a gigabit LAN I don't imagine it would be noticeably slower than direct access.  It should take under four hours to copy. USB is slow.

Do you foresee an continuous operational need for NTFS on this USB flash drive or just a one-time dump and reformat?

Best,
Alain

On 2013-01-01, at 23:41, "Fabio Rodrigues" <fabior at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Thanks for all the answers. We got some very valid suggestions as the one below from you Jay, but I must say I'm not very comfortable (not technically) with it. I believe, as per Jim Klimov and Ken Mays replies, we should have a proper solution on OmniOS.
> 
> Please, don't understand me wrong and I know very well that is easier to say than do, but maybe if there's somebody in the community willing to port fuse and ntfs-3g to OmniOS (if that would be the best solution, I don't know...) and add to the official repo, I'm sure it would be a great addition and can be added to the list of supported features. 
> 
> I think that OmniOS is an outstanding OS and rock solid, as all the others illumos/OpenSolaris based ones!!! I really hope that the repos will be more rich in time, even though I like the minimalistic approach for now/
> 
> I might try to copy all the data I have from a laptop running Linux and upload to my server via NFS, but I don't consider this thread closed and I would like to hear more about in case somebody else want to collaborate with this issue.
> 
> Thanks a mill and Happy 2013!!!
> 
> Cheers,
> Fabio
>  
>> ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -----
>> Von: Jay Fenton
>> Gesendet: 30.12.12 14:27 Uhr
>> An: smartos-discuss at lists.smartos.org
>> Betreff: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] [smartos-discuss] Re: Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS
>>  
>> Hi Fabio, 
>> 
>> I'd suggest the easiest (and I use the term loosely) way to do this 
>> would be to bring up a Linux VM and, assuming it's supported, pass 
>> the raw USB device through to it. You can then mount your zpool via 
>> NFS from the global zone. 
>> 
>> I'm using SmartOS, and vmadm(1m) seems to imply that the -usb and 
>> -usbdevice are supported through qemu_opts. I'm not sure what value 
>> you would use for -usbdevice as it's normally host:VendorID:ProductID, 
>> and normally you can find these from /sbin/lsusb on Linux - not sure 
>> of the equivalent in Solaris land. 
>> 
>> Hope that helps. 
>> 
>> Best Regards, 
>> 
>> Jay Fenton 
>> 
>> 
>> On 30 Dec 2012, at 20:46, "Fabio Rodrigues" <fabior at gmx.net> wrote: 
>> 
>> > Hi All, 
>> > 
>> > Sorry for the "SPAM" to the other lists, but I'm just trying to find a solution for this. I didn't want to compile a ntfs-3g module on my machine, because maybe there's already something ready for it. 
>> > 
>> > I believe this would be useful not only for NTFS USBs, but for any kind. 
>> > 
>> > Any help will be appreciated ;-) 
>> > 
>> > Cheers, 
>> > Fabio 
>> > 
>> >  
>> >> ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- 
>> >> Von: Fabio Rodrigues 
>> >> Gesendet: 25.12.12 01:32 Uhr 
>> >> An: omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com 
>> >> Betreff: Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS 
>> >>  Hi All, 
>> >> 
>> >> First of all, I've been using OmniOS stable Home for the last few weeks on a HP Microserver NL36 (8GB RAM). It's performing very well, but I'm still getting used with the OS. I've been using Solaris for a good few years so I'm not that rusty... 
>> >> 
>> >> Now, I was trying to find out how to mount the USB (Iomega eGo 500GB, NTFS), but there's no guidelines on how to make my life easier. The intention is to mount some of my USB devices and copy the data to my zpool. 
>> >> 
>> >> If any of you could help me with some guides and also if there's any option to add it as an automount (kind of like Linux does), let me know please. 
>> >> 
>> >> Thank you very much in advance and Happy Xmas ;-) 
>> >> 
>> >> Cheers, 
>> >> 
>> >> --- 
>> >> Fabio Rodrigues 
>> >> fabior at gmx.net 
>> >  
>> > 
>> > 
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