Faster NTFS driver

[namtih]

(7th Jan, 2013 11:33 PM)gizag Wrote:  If you want to use the PI as a NAS you'd probably be better of with a ext4 formatted disk, or if you really do need windows compatabillity with a vfat formatted disk (no big file support tho)

No, no NAS usage planned. Just some copying between the Pi and the destop machine. And many users are asking for better NTFS performance and as I know that the WD Live handles it better for example, it is just a try.

I gave it another try and I got it so far that it starts compiling, but then it's crashing with many different error messages again. So I'm not a big help here, sorry.
Just some short notes to the CONFIGURE executable:

1. The executable "/bin/arch" isn't found on my system.
I had to create a symbolic link to "/usr/bin/arch".

2. The script uses sometimes the "-V" parameter for gcc, which isn't recognized by my gcc version. I search&replace it with "-v".

3. Look for the line with "-fno-builtin".
The variable "$BUILD_INC_DIRS\" created a wrong path with double \\ for me. Didn't know how to fix this.
I just removed the \ in the script and it began compiling.

4. And the "linux/smp_lock.h" is also here.
Using Google it was suggested to edit the "ifslinux/ufsdvfs.c" and replace it...

Code:

#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
to
#include <linux/smp.h>