On Friday 18 February 2011 15:17:27 Ron Leach wrote:

> > It seems therefore to be a problem in the software, caused by the updates,

> > since until 10 days ago it was everything ok. However, I usually make the

> > updates whenever they appear but make my backups much less frequently.

> > Therefore I don't know for sure what has changed in Fedora through the

> > updates since the last backup I made, when everything was working fine.

> > Here is the line of my /etc/fstab file which defines my backup disk, with > > the label common

>

> > LABEL=common /home/vinicius/Desktop/common ntfs

> > auto,user,sync 0 0

>

> Am I correct in thinking that 'sync' disables write-caching? It might

> be interesting to change that, and see if performance is still just as

> bad.

>

> Best of luck, Ron

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Can't help with your problem but on Fedora 14

ntfs-3g-2011.1.15-1.fc14 Fri 04 Feb 2011 06:47:18 GMT

So the ntfs drivers were updated in early february about when you say the problem started.

You could try and downgrade the drivers and see if that sorts out your problem

Tony