NTFS Samba copy files

[ailynzel]

Hello all, serious noob here who could use some help. Recently, my Seagate Dockstar died so I decided to order a Pogoplug v2. Once it arrived, I was surprised to find it did not have the WFS setting like the Dockstar. So I took some time, did a lot of research and mostly managed to get Arch Linux installed with Samba. I am running it off of a 2GB flash drive. I have one NTFS 2TB hard drive plugged in for movies, music, etc... The problem I am having is with writing to the drive. It seems like it will only allow one session at a time. So when I drag and drop one file to the Samba share, it starts copying over. If I drag and drop a second file while the first is still writing, it does not allow it (I forget the error) and it ends up creating a 0byte file with the name of the file I was trying to copy.

Before anyone says, well just copy them one at a time, I agree. However, I am noticing problems in some programs I use that access and update my folders such as Ember Media Manager and TVRename. The issue seems similar to what I read in post Pogoplug NTFS Samba batch copy issue -- empty files, but the suggested changes made to smb.conf did not work. Any help for this noob would be appreciated!

[permitivity]

Sorry, I don't have a solution. I'm having a similar problem. I thought it was due to the external USB drive being formatted in NTFS, so I was going to try and solve it by reformatting it for ext3. I haven't gotten around to doing it yet...need to back up the data on several different places before I can reformat the drive.

Anyways, that's the suggestion others have given me - use a ext3 formatted drive for the samba share. Unfortunately, it means your ext3 formatted external drive can't be read natively by a windows machine, so that's one consideration.

It's kind of weird that the ntfs driver for linux is so slow. I haven't found any ways to make NTFS on ALArm work better.