From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2006-12-18 00:59:54
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Welcome, Apology to the ntfs-3g-news subscribers because a reply was also distributed to the news list last time which wasn't supposed to. The earliest subscribers weren't moderated due to a misconfiguration what we believe is fixed now. Of course replies are always very welcome on the ntf...@li... list. No subscription is required. But now it's time for Happiness! Thank you for testing, helping, sending bug reports and for packaging the driver thus making it much easier to access and use for many users. This release addresses some of the problems which were experienced and reported with popular softwares (CVS client, p2p and bittorrent clients, etc). The heavy memory usage during downloading huge torrent files was itself serious enough to have a new beta release. The CPU usage is also less in certain cases now, though writing large files can be still very slow sometimes. This is being worked on. The fixes may unfold problems which were hidden before. Please test carefully and always check the MD5 value of the downloaded files. Don't trust our quality assurance only, please do the checks yourself too. Running ntfs-3g as non-privileged user is often requested and it's planned to be supported again in the next release (the fuseblk changes required root priviledge). The fixes in this beta release are * fix: heavy memory usage with sparse files (p2p and bittorrent client problems) * fix: inode number wasn't filled in the dirent structures (CVS, getcwd, gnulib problems) * fix: 2-8% speed increase due to using pread/pwrite instead of lseek+read/write * fix: fuse 2.6.x kernel module detection wasn't reliable Contributors were Ted Anderson, Dominique L Bouix, Csaba Henk, Miklos Szeredi, Twisted_fall, Eustace, William Mc, Yuval Fledel, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen. The latest BETA driver can be downloaded from: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#download Have Joy, Szaka |