Migrating files between NTFS on Windows XP and Solaris 10

1. It seems mounting ntfs on Solaris has this common issue.

Im migrating from Windows XP to Solaris. Therefore I bought 4 hard discs and set up ZFS raid. Now I am copying all my stuff to ZFS (at last no worries any more! :o)

 

mount ntfs via Belenix FSWfsmisc/FSWfspart as described in:

http://www.sun.drydog.com/faq/s86faq.html

 

However, it gets troublesome. Sometimes when I mount, I can not see the complete directory. When I try to copy another directory, and then go back - I can see the whole directory again. Some of the files/directories just disappears from time to time, and I have to wait. This is very annoying. Have I copied the entire directory, or have I missed some? I have to go there and manually check.

 

Another thing, when I mount a FAT32 with "mount -F pcfs" I can not copy large files, greater than ~2GB. The are error msgs "file to large". This error also applies if I try to place the file on NTFS (from within XP) and copy it from there. I can not copy large files to UFS or to ZFS.

2. The right way is to use samba.