[NCLUG] Moving Raid from Windows to Linux

[dmiles]

To my knowledge the NTFS support is experimental and you can't write to it, 
only read it... I reccomend going to ext2, it would be so much more stable 
under Linux than NTFS under Linux, possibly more stable than NTFS under 
Winblows.

>===== Original Message From nclug at nclug.org =====
>Hi all,
>
>I am looking to move a Raid from Windows to Linux platform and then turn
>around and serv it back to the windows network.  The Raid is on hardware
>Raid 5 striped using a Adaptec 3200S controler.  But the filesystem is
>NTFS.  The question is: Is this easily done?
>
>I see that ntfs is a supported file system for mounting.  I also see
>that adaptec has the Linux driver for the 3200S on there web site.  In
>theory I could install the driver and then see the disk and mount it as
>ntfs.  Reality may very.
>
>Then the next part would be to set up samba to slave to our NT domain
>controler (never done this is it difficult?).
>
>I invite comments.
>
>Dave Graham
>
>
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