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[Linux-NTFS-Announce] NTFS kernel driver 2.1.30 released

[Anton A. <an...@tu...>]

Hi,

Linus accepted the next NTFS kernel driver release 2.1.30 into the mainline kernel.  It will be part of kernel 2.6.38 when it comes out and for git users, it is already in Linus' tree.

The changes are:

- Fix writev() to not keep writing the first segment over and over again instead of moving onto subsequent segments.

- Update the NTFS entry in MAINTAINERS to reflect that Tuxera Inc. (http://www.tuxera.com/) now supports the NTFS driver.

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <anton at tuxera.com> (replace at with @)
Senior Kernel Developer, Tuxera Inc., http://www.tuxera.com/
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

Re: [Linux-NTFS-Announce] [Linux-NTFS-Dev] ntfsprogs 2.0.0 released

[Yura P. <pak...@gm...>]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 at 09:45 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> This is a major new release.  Update is strongly recommended. 

One note to packagers: ntfsmount-2.0.0 in fact requires FUSE-2.7.0 (not
2.6.1 as configure script checks), please make sure that your
spec/ebuild/whatever depends on FUSE>=2.7.0.

Also, please pay attention that required versions of gnutls and
libgcrypt also rose and now crypto support addionaly requires libconfig
[1].

And please install sample libntfs configuration file
(ntfsprogs-2.0.0/libntfs/config) to /etc/libntfs/config.

Thanks!

[1] http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/libconfig.html

-- 
Best regards,
        Yura

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 2.0.0 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

This is a major new release.  Update is strongly recommended.  Onto  
the release notes:

* Directory index handling code was merged from ntfs-3g to libntfs.   
It was the only missing part for full basic read/write in ntfsmount.

* Cryptographic code is now integrated into libntfs, thus ntfscat and  
ntfsmount can now read encrypted files.  See "man 8 libntfs" for  
details.

* ntfsresize (and the entirety of ntfsprogs/libntfs in fact) now have  
full support for Windows Vista.

* ntfsprogs and libntfs are now entirely endian safe and more over we  
now have checks that automatically report endian errors.

* ntfsmount now properly updates time according to POSIX/SUSv3  
(Single UNIX Specification).

* We no longer use CVS for revision control.  We use git.  A public  
git repository will be made available soon.

* ntfsmount/libntfs speed is seriously improved (especially for  
fragmented volumes).  Some benchmarks below:

Test with bonnie++ -s0:

ntfs-3g-CVS-28.09.2007:
Version 1.93c       ------Sequential Create------ --------Random  
Create--------
pc299               -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---  
-Delete--
               files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec % 
CP  /sec %CP
                  16  3739  11 14802  15  4179   8  3940   9 16372   
19  4439  12
Latency             12412us    5764us   29314us    9835us     
5682us    9881us
1.93c, 
1.93c,pc299,1,1191014553,,,,,,,,,,,,,,16,,,,,3739,11,14802,15,4179,8,394 
0,9,16372,19,4439,12,,,,,,,12412us,5764us,29314us,9835us,5682us,9881us

ntfsmount-2.0.0:
Version 1.93c       ------Sequential Create------ --------Random  
Create--------
pc299               -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---  
-Delete--
               files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec % 
CP  /sec %CP
                  16  6536  22 20537  31  8449  18  6972  14 26902   
29  8325  15
Latency              6116us    1809us   28863us    1874us     
1173us    1384us
1.93c, 
1.93c,pc299,1,1190994522,,,,,,,,,,,,,,16,,,,,6536,22,20537,31,8449,18,69 
72,14,26902,29,8325,15,,,,,,,6116us,1809us,28863us,1874us,1173us,1384us

ntfsmount is 1.75 times faster than ntfs-3g in file creation.


Copying 700MB file from reiserfs to empty ntfs volume:

ntfs-3g-CVS-28.09.2007:
0,07s user 3,04s system 7% cpu 39,726 total

ntfsmount-2.0.0:
0,06s user 2,76s system 8% cpu 31,454 total

ntfsmount is 1.25 times faster than ntfs-3g.


Copying 70MB file to very-very fragmented (bitmap is close to  
010101...) ntfs:

ntfs-3g-CVS-28.09.2007:
0,00s user 0,26s system 0% cpu 2:59,01 total

ntfsmount-2.0.0:
0,00s user 0,21s system 4% cpu 4,919 total

ntfsmount 36.38 times (this is not a typo!!!) faster than ntfs-3g.


Also a lot of regressions comparing to ntfs-3g are fixed in the release:

* ntfs-3g ignores dirty volume bit.  It is set to enforce windows to  
perform chkdsk on next boot and ignoring it may lead to data loss.

* ntfs-3g always acts as if noatime option was supplied to it.

* It is not possible to mount block device with not set-uid-root  
ntfs-3g even if the user has rw rights to the device and vice-versa  
it is possible to mount any block device under any user if ntfs-3g is  
set-uid-root.

* ntfs-3g does not validate options.

* Only case sensitive mounts are supported by ntfs-3g.

* A lot of regressions in logic of libntfs functions are present in  
ntfs-3g.  Not all are noticeable right now, but they make ntfs-3g  
very fragile which will lead to serious problems in the future.

* A lot of others we forgot about.


You can download source code of the 2.0.0 release here:

	http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37/

Note no binary RPMs yet.  We are working on making binary RPMs  
available.  Oops.  I appear to have broken the above web page.  Until  
it is fixed you can download everything directly from sourceforge here:

	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? 
group_id=13956&package_id=14232


Soon you will also be able to use the Linux-NTFS git repository if  
you want to stay on top of the latest and greatest but we are still  
working on making that available at the moment.  Once it is ready, we  
will put up information about it here:

	http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/18/36/

Note the CVS repository is now out of date and does not contains the  
latest 2.0.0 release source code.


ChangeLog since 1.13.1 release:
- ntfsmount now creates files and directories with security descriptor
   that grant full access to everyone.  (Yura)
- Fix typo that lead to incorrect sparse file size calculation.  (Yuval)
- Fix long standing stupendously stupid bug in libntfs/attrib.c::
   ntfs_external_attr_find() and also port a bugfix from the advanced
   ntfs kernel driver to the same function.  (Anton)
- Add new API ntfs_attr_exist() that checks whether attribute with
   selected type and name already present in inode.  (Szaka)
- Extend ntfs_index_{add_filename,rm} to support almost all cases of
   index operations.  (Szaka)
- Support index operations when index root is in the base MFT
   record.  (Yura)
- calloc/malloc -> ntfs_{calloc,malloc} conversions.  (Szaka)
- ntfsclone: don't create image files with executable bit set.  (Szaka)
- ntfsclone: metadata cloning: write out extent records.  (Szaka)
- ntfsclone: fix sometimes missing error messages and be more
   detailed.  (Szaka)
- ntfsclone: fix crash in wipe_index_allocation_timestamps(): don't
   dump empty index allocation attribute.  (Szaka)
- ntfscmp: fine grained AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION comparison.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: rename 'Flags:' fields to be unique.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: add ntfs_dump_index_header(); dump full index attribute
   INDEX_HEADER.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: add ntfs_dump_index_block() and use it.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: fix output indenting.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: make stdout line buffered.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: fix segfaults when SDS has absolute security
   descriptor.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: redirect stderr to /dev/null if --debug isn't used in
   debug mode.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: fix segfaults on corrupt index blocks.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: dump number of entries per block in index allocation
   attributes.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: dump ATTR_LIST_ENTRY padding in verbose mode. (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: dump all VCN's in the same numeral system.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: dump the FILE_ATTR_DIRECTORY flag.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: dump padding between the Update Sequence Array and the
   first attribute in verbose mode.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: Fix endianness.  (Yura)
- ntfsinfo: Make more resilient to corrupt index entries in an index
   node.  (Anton)
- ntfsinfo: Print in both decimal and hexadecimal where it makes sense
   and is useful.  (Anton)
- ntfsclone: Define endianness safe image format.  (Anton)
- ntfsclone: Redefine image format version number to be the image
   format version and not the NTFS version of the imaged volume which is
   totally useless.  (Anton)
- ntfsclone: Make ntfsclone image format extensible.  (Anton)
- ntfsclone: Fix endianness problems.  (Anton)
- Allow ntfscp to create the destination file if it does not already
   exists by calling ntfs_create().  (Hil)
- Fix GUID to string conversion.  (Anton)
- Multiple big-endianness fixes.  (zhanglinbao, Yuval)
- Spelling mistake fixes.  (Yuval)
- Remove inline keywords from static non-one-liners.  (Szaka, Yuval)
- Memory leak fixes.  (Yura, Yuval)
- Change ntfs_collate()'s signature to take size_t's.  (Yuval)
- Move ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported() from collate.h to collate.c
   and rewrite it to be clearer.  (Yuval)
- Move ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to index.c.  (Szaka)
- Introduce misc.c. Move ntfs_[mc]alloc there.  (Szaka)
- Change malloc() calls to ntfs_malloc().  (Szaka)
- ntfsmount: require FUSE version >= 2.6.0 for build. Fixes fusermount
   lookup problem and allows to drop compatibility code.  (Yura)
- Rewrite ntfs_attr_add() algorithm to be faster and cleverer.  (Yura)
- Rename MS_{RDONLY,NOATIME} to NTFS_MNT_{RDONLY,NOATIME}. Introduce
   NTFS_MNT_CASE_SENSITIVE.  (Yura)
- Treat filenames in POSIX namespace as case insensitive in case of
   case insensitive mounts.  (Anton, Yura)
- Windows cares only about first 4 records in $MFTMirr and ignores
   everything beyond them. Update libntfs behaviour to be like in
   windows.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Fix free clusters and MFT records calculation.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Fix st_blocks calculation for resident files.  (Yuval,
   Yura)
- ntfsmount: Umount volume in DESTROY. This is guarantees that all
   data would be synced before umount return for volumes mounted with
   blkdev option.  (Yura)
- Introduce MNT_NTFS_NOT_EXCLUSIVE mount option that tells libntfs do
   not open volume exclusively. Useful if libntfs user cares about this
   himself, eg. FUSE with blkdev option.  (Yura)
- Empty the journal at mount time.  (Anton)
- Set the volume dirty bit at mount time (if it is not set already and
   clear it again at umount time but only if it was not set to start
   with.  (Anton)
- Introduce NTFS_MNT_FORENSIC mount option for logfile dumping for
   example otherwise the logfile gets wiped out by the mount attempt if
   it is not read-only.  Also use it for ntfsresize as it wishes to do
   its own logfile emptying and volume dirtying.  (Anton)
- Raise FUSE dependence to 2.6.1 (the most stable and featured ATM),
   rename --enable-fuse-module to more clear --enable-ntfsmount and
   cleanup autotools scripts a bit.  (Yura)
- ntfsclone: don't check free space if output file is FIFO.  (Andree
   Leidenfrost)
- Turn ntfs_pathname_to_inode() into ntfs_pathname_to_inode_num() which
   returns ntfs inode number instead of opened inode itself.
   Reimplement ntfs_pathname_to_inode() as wrapper to new API.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: fix rename if destination already exists.  (Yura)
- ntfsfix: do not set VOLUME_MOUNTED_ON_NT4 flag as it causes Vista to
   not boot any more.
- Implement ntfs_pread() and ntfs_pwrite() in terms of device
   operations pread() and pwrite() respectively and fall back to using
   seek() + read()/write() if no pread()/pwrite() device operation is
   supplied or the OS does not support the pread()/pwrite() system call.
   Adapt unix_io pread()/pwrite() device operations to use pread()/
   pwrite() system call and adapt win32_io device operations to not
   supply pread()/pwrite().  (Csaba Henk, Anton)
- mkntfs: Generate a random DCE compliant UUID for the created volume
   and include --with-uuid[=PFX] and --without-uuid options.  (Anton)
- configure.ac: Set language to C.  (Anton)
- mkntfs: Always set default cluster size to 4096 bytes regardless of
   volume size.  This is what Windows Vista does and it makes perfect
   sense from a performance point of view.  (Anton)
- mkntfs: As announced, remove the deprecated support for creation of
   NTFS 1.2/3.0 volumes.  We now create NTFS 3.1 volumes only.  (Anton)
- mkntfs: Remove lots of unused/unneeded debugging code.  (Anton)
- libntfs: Add support for FreeBSD 5.0+ sector aligned access
   requirements.  (Max Khon)
- mkntfs: Create more Vista like volumes.  We now match the security
   descriptor attributes (but not yet the security descriptors stored in
   $Secure).  (Anton)
- libntfs: Rewrite ntfs_upcase_table_build() to generate a Vista
   compatible upcase table ($UpCase).  (Anton)
- mkntfs: Remove own generation of upcase table, i.e. delete
   ntfsprogs/upcase.[ch] and use ntfs_upcase_table_build() supplied by
   libntfs.  (Anton)
- Upgrade ntfsmount to new FUSE option parsing API.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Remove "show_sys_files" as potential harmful and
   introduce new "case_insensitive" option to support both case
   sensitive and insensitive mounts.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: st_block calculation was wrong.  (Yuval)
- mkntfs: Use Vista $Boot rather than XP one.  (Anton)
- ntfsmount: use utimens() instead of deprecated utime().  (Yura)
- libntfs: Ignore bootsector checksum inconsistencies as too many 3rd
   party utilities update the boot sector without correcting the
   checksum.  Ported change from kernel driver.  (Anton)
- ntfsdecrypt: Major improvement!  We now validate the .pfx file to be
   the right type of RSA key and we also determine the thumbprint and
   compare the one in the keys to the one in the .pfx file thus we only
   try to decrypt the FEK once we have the correct key.  Several other
   bug fixes leading to crashes.  Also make compilation work on OS X
   when gnutls is otherwise not found.  (Anton, Yura)
- ntfsmount: fix errno in truncate() operation.  (Yura)
- Add new API: __ntfs_attr_truncate that allow user to select whether
   holes should be created or clusters allocated.  (Yura)
- Add new API: ntfs_attr_map_runlist_range to map part of runlist from
   selected VCN to selected VCN.  (Yura)
- Make ntfs_attr_update_mapping_pairs to be mostly O(1) for normal
   files.  (Yura)
- Introduce sparse bitwise annotations to automatically catch endian
   bugs. Adopt libntfs (and fix 2 bugs) and ntfsprogs (and fix lots of
   bugs).  (Yura)
- ntfsinfo: nicely dump special LCN values.  (Yura)
- Transparently integrate reading of encrypted files into library.
   This adds crypto.[ch], several exported functions that you are not
   interested to use and dependency on >=libconfig-1.0.1 to read list of
   PFX files with keys. See libntfs/config for example configuration
   file.  (Yura)
- Add new API ntfs_attr_get_name - returns pointer to unicode name of
   attribute.  (Yura)
- ntfsinfo: Dump raw content of LOGGED_UTILITY_STREAM in verbose
   mode.  (Yura)
- Export NTFS_EFS string.  (Yura)
- Merge --enable-debug and --enable-debug-logging.  (Yura)
- Add --enable-sparse configure option.  (Yura)
- Fix corner case in hole instantiating in ntfs_attr_pwrite().  (Szaka)
- Fix heavy memory usage during whole instantiating and add new API:
   ntfs_rl_fill_zero.  (Szaka, Yura)
- ntfs_delete() now takes pointer to pointer to ntfs_inode for file to
   delete and closes inode only in cases there are no more hard links
   left to file.  (Yura)
- Library no longer perform time updates, only provides API for
   performing time updates. Remove ntfs_inode_update_{a,}time() and
   introduce ntfs_inode_update_times(). Make ntfsmount update time
   according to SUS.  (Yura)
- Fix cache handling in utils_attr_get_name.  (Bogdan, Yura)
- ntfsmount: Submit inode number during readdir.  (Ted Anderson, Szaka)
- Fix syslog logging handler to respect all logging flags.  (Yura)
- ntfs_readdir, ntfs_fuse_filler: return with error if FUSE filler
   failed.  (Szaka, Yura)
- Fix rare directory corruption in index code.  (Szaka, Yura)
- ntfsmount: Mount block devices with blkdev mount option.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Add set-uid-root binary support.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Implement {no,}relatime (relative atime) options.  (Yura)
- Make libntfs keep track number of free clusters and MFT records.
   Thanks to David Fox and Szabolcs Szakacsits for idea.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Add bmap support.  (Szaka, Yura)
- Introduce NTFS_MNT_FORCE instead of third parameter (force) of
   utils_mount_volume.  (Yura)
- ntfs_attr_pwrite: Write 4096 bytes blocks when possible.  (David Fox,
   Szaka, Anton, Yura)
- Allow mounting volumes with non-clean logfile with force mount
   option. Thanks to Szaka for idea.  (Yura)
- libntfs: Attach opened inodes to volume.  (Yura)
- libntfs: Attach opened attributes to inode.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Save pointer to ntfs_attr in (fuse_file_info *)->fh and
   use it in ntfs_fuse_{read,write}.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Implement .create(), .ftruncate(), .fgetattr().  (Yura)
- libntfs: Sync and warn about not closed inodes in ntfs_umount.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Cache directory in which was performed last
   operation.  (Yura)
- Install mount.fuse.ntfs symbolic link.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Fill .st_mode in readdir().  (Szaka, Yura)

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.13.1 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

Lots of fixes across the board.  Update is strongly recommended.  See
the changelog for details.

You can download rpms and source code of the 1.13.1 release:

        http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37/

Or get the changes from the Linux-NTFS CVS, for details see:

	http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/18/36/

ChangeLog since 1.13.0 release:
- Fix bug in ntfs_attr_pwrite() when we sometimes lose current run in
  the runlist.  (Yura)
- Fix build with --disable-gnome-vfs --enable-fuse-module.  (Gentoo)
- ntfscluster: identify files even if their clusters aren't set
  in $Bitmap (useful to find potentially corrupted files). (Szaka)
- mkntfs: set the physical drive and the extended boot signature to
  0x80 in the Extended BPB which are needed to boot from disk. (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: fix two freed memory usages when dumping $SDS and index
  allocation entries.  (Szaka)
- libntfs: add ntfs_attr_readall() which reads the entire data
  from an ntfs attribute.  (Szaka)
- libntfs: add ntfs_index_root_get() which reads the index root of
  an attribute.  (Szaka)
- ntfsclone: the --metadata option will wipe the timestamps in the
  index allocation attributes as well. This further decreases the
  compressed metadata image size by 10-25% and more importantly it
  eliminates non-interesting ntfscmp differences.  (Szaka)
- Change utils_parse_size() to use a base of 0 instead of 10 when
  calling strtoll().  This automagically allows specification of
  numbers in hex (and octal if anyone is crazy enough to use that) in
  addition to decimal numbers on the command line options to most if
  not all utilities.  (Anton)
- Fix comparison of $MFT and $MFTMirr to not bail out when there are
  unused, invalid mft records which are the same in both $MFT and
  $MFTMirr.  Ported from kernel driver 2.1.27 release and aplied both
  to libntfs/volume.c mount related code and to ntfsprogs/ntfsfix.c's
  fixup code.  (Anton)
- Change ntfsinfo to dump the key data as well as the keys themselves
  when dumping the $ObjId/$O index.  (Anton)
- ntfsinfo: dump either a minimal (default) or the entire attribute
  header (--verbose) for all attribute types. Dump USA, USN and LSN
  for index records. Removed a lot of redundant code, made some
  formatting and stylistic corrections.  (Szaka)
- libntfs: add ntfs_str2ucs(), ntfs_freeucs(), ntfs_mft_usn_dec()
  and ntfs_inode_badclus_bad() functions, and convert all copy-pastes
  to use them.  (Szaka)
- Fix all incorrect getopt_long() return value usages.  (Szaka)
- Fix VCN size in the index.c.  (Anton, Yura)
- ntfscmp: support bad cluster list, compare full attribute headers
  for non-resident attributes, added manual, build and install by
  default.  (Szaka)
- configure.ac: set PKG_CONFIG_PATH during build time so we should
  find .pc files in the most typical pkgconfig directories.  (Szaka)
- Improve ntfsinfo to dump standard info completely and filename
  attribute completely and index entry (filename) completely and all in
  correct order.  Essential for hunting bugs in directory operations
  code...  (Anton)
- configure.ac fix for Cygwin.  (Yuval)
- Fix bug with renaming directories with names in DOS and WIN32
  namespaces.  (Yura)
- ntfsclone: fix 64 bit destination size calculation on Mac OS X
  (Mike Bombich, Anton, Szaka)

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] Writing to your Windows XP/2000/NT NTFS partition from Linux.

[John S. <joh...@ya...>]

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[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.13.0 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

The long awaited release. Lots of enhancements and fixes across the
board. See the changelog for details but a few notable changes are that
mkntfs now creates NTFS 3.1 (Windows XP) volumes by default and that
ntfsmount can deal with symbolic links and device files.

You can download rpms and source code of the 1.13.0 release:

	http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37/

Or get the changes from Sourceforge CVS, for details see:

        http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13956

ChangeLog since 1.12.1 release:
- Temporarily disable use of the legal ansi character checking in
  libntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_names_collate() pending a proper fix at some
  point.  (Anton)
- Rewrite gcc version detection logic using the -dumpversion option.
  Tested on various OS and architectures and gcc versions from 2.95 to
  4.0.2 with some weird ones like 3.5-blah thrown in, too.  (Anton)
- Fix bogus le16_to_cpu() which should be le32_to_cpu() when accessing
  the attribute list entry attribute type in some places in
  libntfs/attrib.c.  (Anton)
- Fix silly bug introduced in 1.12.0 which breaks ntfsfix (and others
  possibly) when calling ntfs_attr_lookup() with AT_UNNAMED name and
  no ntfs inode in the search context.  (Anton)
- Fix compilation on OSX in ntfsresize.c, ntfsclone.c, and ntfscmp.c
  where stderr = stdout is not legal (but happens to work on Linux) to
  do portable low-level file descriptor mangling.  (Anton)
- Add test/runlist-data to EXTRA_DIST so it gets included in the
  distribution otherwise make test fails on released sources.  Solution
  is not perfect as it also adds the test/runlist-data/CVS directory
  but it will do at least for me.  (Anton)
- Fix compilation and warnings in ntfsdecrypt.c on OSX/gcc4.0.1.  The
  compilation failure was because we use strnlen() which is gnu
  specific and not present on my current version of OSX so ntfsdecrypt
  now provides own version if it is not present on system.  (Anton)
- Fix endianness bug (le16 instead of le32 when accessing mft record
  bytes_in_use) in volume.c::ntfs_volume_write_flags() and
  ntfsfix.c::OLD_ntfs_volume_set_flags().  (Anton)
- Fix endianness bugs in ntfsinfo.  (Anton)
- Fix endianness bug in libntfs/index.c.  (Anton)
- ntfsresize: check and report bad sectors before cluster allocation
  check because chkdsk doesn't fix $Bitmap with bad sectors.  (Szaka)
- $EA can be resident and non-resident.  Fix libntfs/attrib.c::
  ntfs_attr_can_be_resident() apropriately.  (Anton)
- mkntfs: optionally create NTFS version 3.0 (W2K) or 3.1 (XP, W2K3, 
  Vista).  (Implementation by Erik Sornes, adaption by Szaka)
- ntfsmount: Add 'streams_interface=' option to select named data
  streams access interface. Currently supported interfaces are 'none',
  'windows' and 'xattr'.  (Yura)
- ntfscat can display named attributes, streams too.  (Szaka)
- Remove Dputs(), Dprintf(), Dperror(), ntfs_debug(), ntfs_error() and
  Sprintf(). Forward callers to ntfs_log_*().  (Yuval)
- Add some debugging to ntfsdecrypt.c to allow printing of the private
  key after it is decrypted (this is ifdeffed out by default).  (Anton)
- fflush() ntfs_log_ streams.  (Christophe)
- Working with regular files no longer needs the --force option, except
  for mkntfs.  (Szaka)
- Fix ntfs_non_resident_attr_expand() bug, that occurred if we enlarge
  sparse or compressed file, but do not need to allocate new clusters
  to perform this.  (Yura)
- Fix ntfsdecrypt endianness bugs thus it now works on OSX running on
  a dual G5!  (Anton)
- Match function parameters names between .h and .c files.  (Yuval)
- Fix comment formats.  (Yuval)
- ntfsinfo and ntfsls follow the convention how other utilities read
  the device argument: no -d or --device option is needed.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: dump index attribute types and keys. (Szaka)
- mkntfs: don't fill the last $MFT cluster with empty MFT records if 
  the cluster size <= 16 kB. This is needed to conform to Windows' 
  format behavior.  (Szaka)
- Add @flags field to struct ntfs_inode. Remove NIno{Sparse,Compressed,
  Encrypted}, update all users to use @(ntfs_inode)->flags.  (Yura)
- Make @(ntfs_inode)->data_size and @(ntfs_inode)->allocated_size to
  always contain valid value.  (Yura)
- Always set correct file size and attributes in ntfs_link().  (Yura)
- Add info about Interix special files (symbolic links, character and
  block devices, FIFOs and sockets) to layout.h. Teach ntfsmount to
  handle them.  (Yura)
- Fix allocated data size for resident attributes.  (Yura)
- ntfsclone: check available free space on the destination before
  starting to clone, image or restore.  (Szaka)
- Change @type parameter for ntfs_create() to be dev_t rather than
  internal NTFS_DT_* constants.  (Yura)
- New APIs (dir.[ch]):
    ntfs_create_device() for Interix block and character devices
    creation.
    ntfs_crate_symlink() for Interix symbolic links creation.  (Yura)
- Teach ntfs_create() to create Interix FIFOs and sockets.  (Yura)
- Fix the -u option in ntfsundelete.  Instead of a confusing optional
  parameter, there's a new option -i with a required parameter.  (Rich)
- Make ntfsinfo report the MFT record flags properly, this includes
  the less encountered flags, and reporting the in_use flag instead of
  inverting it to unused.  (Yuval)
- mkntfs: fix segfault when volume had more than 2^31 clusters.  (Szaka)
- Automatically update access and change time in ntfs_attr_p{read,write}
  and ntfs_attr_truncate.  (Yura)
- Add support of MS_NOATIME flag to ntfs_mount().  (Yura)
- ntfsclone: --metadata also wipes out the timestamps in the $I30 and
  in the /$Extend/$Quota:$Q index root attributes.  (Szaka)
- ntfsmount: Add FreeBSD support.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Fix bug with moving non-empty directories.  (Yura)
- ntfsinfo: dump $Secure:$SDS in verbose mode.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: fix off-by-one in ACL dumping, one ACE was missed.  (Szaka)
- ntfsmount: Rename "succeed_chmod" -> "silent". Do not return error
  on chown too.  (Yura)
- Fix stupid bug in libntfs/bitmap.c::ntfs_bitmap_set_bits_in_run()
  which caused bits to not be cleared or set if the first bit in the
  run was not a multiple of eight.  (Anton)
- Change volume mounting (actually device opening) to happen with
  O_EXCL bit set, but only for r/w opening so at least on Linux no one
  can change the device block size under our feet.  (Anton)
- Change volume mounting and mkntfs to set the device block size to the
  sector size using BLKBSZSET ioctl (Linux only).  This should be
  optimal for performance and should fixes the bug of not being able to
  create the backup boot sector if the number of sectors on the device
  is odd, the sector size is 512 bytes, and the kernel is 2.4.  (Anton)
- Enforce cluster size, mft record size, and index record size to be at
  least equal to the sector size and verify they are still valid and in
  particular display a warning message if the volume will not be
  mountable by the kernel driver (it requires mft record size and index
  record size to be below or equal to the system page size which we
  determine using sysconf()).  (Anton)
- Fix tons of big-endian bugs in mkntfs.  (Anton)
- ntfsresize, ntfsclone: always use MS_NOATIME.  (Szaka)
- Implement simple syslog logging handler (need more work), teach
  ntfsmount to use it.  (Yura)
- Fix a lot of bugs in attribute resizing code.  (Yura)
- Deal with missing syslog function by making code conditional on
  presence of syslog.h header file (DOS/djgpp).  (Christophe)
- Avoid clash with existing constants (OSX).  (Christophe)
- Cope with attribute list attribute having invalid flags.  Windows
  copes with this and even chkdsk does not detect or fix this so we
  have to cope with it, too.  Thanks to a Pawel for reporting the
  problem.  (Anton)
- Fix compilation on FreeBSD.  (Christophe)

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] Linux-NTFS logo contest

[Yura P. <y.p...@sa...>]

Hi,

With the new website online, and reopening the page on cia.navi.cx, *we
really need a good logo*.

If you have any artistic skills (or you are really good with the Gimp),
we need your help, You can contact lin...@li...
for details or for sending logos (please don't attach very large files).
Thanks Ahead.

-- 
Best regards,
        Yura

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.12.1 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

This is a quick followup to 1.12.0 which fixes the location of mkfs.ntfs
and mount.ntfs-fuse to be in /sbin.

You can download rpms and source code of the 1.12.1 release:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from Sourceforge CVS, for details see:

        http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13956

ChangeLog since 1.12.0 release:

- Fix hardcoded location for uninstalling mount.ntfs-fuse hardlink to
  match the relocatable location for installing it.  (Anton, Szaka)
- Move mount.ntfs-fuse and mkfs.ntfs to be symlinks instead of
  hardlinks and move both to /sbin rather than prefix/sbin.  Note we
  still obey $destdir so building packages works as well as installing
  into alternate chroot / other system still works.  (Anton)
- ntfscmp: fix some corner cases and all memory leaks; handle corrupt
  NTFS more gracefully.  (Szaka)
- If the system does not have realpath(), supply our own dummy version
  which just copies the string without any kind of checking or
  expansion.  (Anton)

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.12.0 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

The next release ntfsprogs release is here!  This has lots of
enhancements and bug fixes.  Notably, the FUSE module ntfsmount, now has
limited support for deleting/creating files and directories as well as
hardlinks.  See the ChangeLog for details.

You can download rpms and source code of the 1.11.2 release:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from Sourceforge CVS, for details see:

        http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13956

ChangeLog since 1.11.2 release:

- Add ./configure detection for gnutls library and make minimum version
  1.2.3 which is the one that has the rsa key export fixed.  (Anton)
- Put in a minimum version for libgcrypt of 1.2.0 as I do not know if
  our code works with earlier versions.  (Anton)
- Fix some memory leaks in ntfsdecrypt and do some cleanups.  (Anton)
- Fix ntfsdecrypt to also work with passwordless files.  Note this
  requires a patched gnutls library or it still does not work.  (Anton)
- Add new APIs for index adding/remove:
    index.[ch]::ntfs_index_add_filename and index.[ch]::ntfs_index_rm.
  They support only basic cases, so can fail with EOPNOTSUPP.  (Yura)
- Add new API for index context reinitialization:
    ntfs_index_ctx_reinit.  (Yura)
- Add new high-level APIs for file and directory creation/deletion that
  rely on ntfs_index_{add_filename,rm}:
    dir.[ch]::ntfs_create and dir.[ch]::ntfs_delete.  (Yura)
- Add @creation_time field to struct ntfs_inode and rename [acm]time
  fields to @last_{data_change,mft_change,access}_time. Update them in
  STANDARD_INFORMATION and FILE_NAMEs during inode sync.  (Yura)
- layout.h: Add @v1_end and @v3_end markers for offsetof to struct
  FILE_NAME_ATTR. Change type of @clusters_per_index_block from u8 to
  s8, fix error in comment. Simplify a bit INDEX_ENTRY struct.  (Yura)
- ntfstime.h: Use cpu_to_sle64 and sle64_to_cpu in utc2ntfs and
  ntfs2utc respectively. Update all users.  (Yura)
- Add @indx_record_size and @inx_record_size_bits to struct ntfs_volume.
  Set them during mount.  (Yura)
- attrib.c: Set RESIDENT_ATTR_IS_INDEXED flag for FILE_NAME attribute in
  ntfs_attr_add.  (Yura)
- inode.c: Do not sync STANDARD_INFORMATION and FILE_NAMEs for
  freed inodes.  (Yura)
- mft.c: Set *time and *size fields of struct ntfs_inode in
  ntfs_mft_record_alloc.  (Yura)
- Make ntfsmount use new APIs for file and directory creation/deletion.
  Implement utime operation.  (Yura)
- Hard link mkfs.ntfs and mkfs.ntfs.8 with mkntfs and mkntfs.8.  (Szaka)
- Only include sys/ioctl.h in libntfs/device.c if ./configure detected
  it to be present.  (Christophe)
- ntfscluster: fix incorrect volume usage calculation.  (Szaka)
- ntfscluster, utils.c::mft_next_record(): fix gigaleak.  (Szaka)
- Define PATH_MAX if not defined in ntfsprogs/ntfsmount.c and
  libntfs/volume.c.  Needed to compile on DOS with djgpp.  (Christophe)
- Switch ntfsmount to use getopt_long.  (Yuval, minor fixes by Yura)
- ntfsmount: Fix 'df' output.  (Yuval)
- Support journals which have been modified by chkdsk.  (Anton, Szaka)
- Support journals ($LogFile) with only one restart page as well as
  journals with two different restart pages.  (Anton, Szaka)
- Add @val parameter to ntfs_attr_add and @val and @size parameters to
  ntfs_resident_attr_record_add.  (Yura)
- Fix attribute list adding for always resident attributes.  (Yura)
- New API for hard link creating: dir.[ch]::ntfs_link.  (Yura)
- ntfsresize: emphasize that disk partitioning must use sector as the
  unit instead of cylinder to avoid shifting of the partition.  (Szaka)
- Rename API: ntfs_volume_set_flags() as it is misleading.  It does not
  set a flag, it overwrites the flags!  Rename it to
  ntfs_volume_write_flags() and clean it up a lot.  Update all
  callers.  (Anton)
- Change everything to supply an ntfs_inode and NULL for mft record
  when calling ntfs_attr_get_search_ctx() except a very few cases which
  genuinely need this functionality as they work on a too low level.
  Make sure all those cases are ok.  (Anton)
- ntfsclone: fix saving by sectors during --rescue (Scott Hansen, Szaka)
- Fix the definition of the CHKD ntfs record magic.  It had an off by
  two error causing it to be CHKB instead of CHKD.  (Anton)
- Add new utility ntfscmp (make extra) which compares two NTFS volumes
  and tell the differences. It's used for development, debugging,
  testing, etc.  (Szaka)
- ntfsresize, ntfsclone: accept incorrect $Bitmap size if it covers
  the entire volume.  (Szaka)
- mkntfs: Fix silly bug where I forgot to add the "H:S:p:" string to
  the getopt() parsing string for those options.  Cannot be used very
  often if people only now noticed!  (Anton)
- ntfsmount: Add 'locale' option.  (Yura)
- ntfsmount: Change interface to 'ntfsmount device mount_point'.  (Yura)
- Hardlink ntfsmount to /sbin/mount.ntfs-fuse, thus it possible mounting
  from fstab by specifying ntfs-fuse filesystem type.  (Yura, Szaka)
- Fix stupid bug in mkntfs which caused it to fail even though only the
  backup boot sector could not be written because a 2.4 kernel is used
  and the partition has an odd number of sectors.  (Anton)
- Add API (actually renamed from what Rich/FlatCap did):
  volume.[hc]::ntfs_libntfs_version() which returns a pointer to a
  static const string of the libntfs verion, i.e. at the moment this is
  "8.0.0".  This required moving the version specifications from
  libntfs/Makefile.am to configure.ac.  This should hopefully have the
  sideeffect that I will remember to increment it when incrementing the
  ntfsprogs version number when making a release given the two are
  right under one another.  (Anton)
- Change ALL utilities to display the libntfs version they are running
  on.  This should make debugging easier in the case that people are
  running mismatched utilities/library.  (Anton)

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.11.2 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

A relatively quick followup to 1.11.1, this release fixes several bugs
across the board.  Upgrade is recommended.  See the ChangeLog for
details.

You can download rpms and source code of the 1.11.2 release:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from Sourceforge CVS, for details see:

        http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13956

ChangeLog since 1.11.1 release:
- ntfsls: Fix display of non-system files whose name begins with the
  '$' character.  (Yura)
- Move ntfs2utc and utc2ntfs from utils.[ch] to ntfstime.h.  (Yura,
  Anton)
- Add [acm]time fields to struct ntfs_inode and set them during
  ntfs_inode_open().  Update ntfsmount to use them.  (Yura)
- index.c::ntfs_index_lookup(): Fix bug when index context did not
  point to the index root in which the entry located.  (Yura)
- ntfsresize: relocate_attributes(): Do not stop processing MFT record
  attributes at AT_DATA of $BadClus and $Bitmap.  In practice, there
  are no non-resident attributes after them so this is a bug which was
  introduced in 1.11.0 which should not have caused data loss.  (Szaka)
- ntfsresize: Support relocation of $MFT with $ATTRIBUTE_LIST.  (Szaka)
- ntfsresize: Support resizing into the middle of a $MFT $DATA
  extent. (Szaka)
- ntfscp: Fix attribute name parsing bug introduced in 1.10.0.  (Yura)
- ntfsinfo: Dump more information about indexes.  (Yura)
- Fix unistr.c::ntfs_mbstoucs() on systems with utf8 locale.  (Yura)
- Change errno and print more verbose message in the case of a failing
  logfile check.  (Yura)
- Fix random errno returned by ntfs_inode_open() if the MFT record  was
  not in use.  (Szaka)
- Fix ntfs_attr_p{read,write}() to not return less bytes if trapped on
  unmapped runlist region.  (Yura)
- Make find work correctly on volumes mounted by ntfsmount.  (Yura)
- Replaced all occurances of ENOTSUP with EOPNOTSUPP to be in better
  harmony with the kernel driver.  (Szaka)
- Fix ntfs_is_cb_compressed() for nasty runlist merging case in which
  compression block was incorrectly treated as not compressed.  (Yura,
  Anton)
- ntfsresize: Fix for ntfs_rl_truncate() EIO: Always set the correct
  size for $BadClus::$Bad, even if Windows set it incorrectly.  (Szaka)
- Make ntfs_attr_open() resolve attribute name for ntfs_attr struct
  in case NULL passed instead of name.  (Yura)
- ntfsdecrypt (make extra) is now fully functional using libgcrypt and
  gnutls 1.2.0 (not later, that is broken at present).  It decrypts all
  types of compressed files that ntfs creates, i.e. DesX, AES-256, and
  3Des.  The only thing it requires is the user's private key which
  needs to be supplied via a .pfx file (a PKCS#12 file).  Such a file
  can be created in windows XP SP2 by running cipher with the exporty
  key option or in older windows versions by running the certificates
  snap-in to the microsoft management console (mmc).  Note that due to
  a bug in gnutls you have to protect the .pfx file with a password.
  An empty password will not work.  (Yuval, Anton)
- Add information about $EFS on-disk structures to layout.h.  (Yuval,
  Anton)
- Fix build so that make extra directly after ./configure works.
  Thanks to Yuval for the bug report.  (Anton)
- Add ./configure option --enable-crypto and if enabled detect whether
  libgcrypt is present or not and only then build ntfsdecrypt.  (Anton)

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.11.1 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

A quick followup to 1.11.0, this release fixes several bugs in
ntfsmount. You only need to upgrade if you intend to use ntfsmount.

You can download rpms and source code of the 1.11.1 release:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from Sourceforge CVS, for details see:

        http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13956

ChangeLog since 1.11.0 release:
- ntfsmount: Fix several bugs when too small buffer was allocated for
  filenames on systems with utf8 locale.  (Yura, many thanks to Rich
  for finding bug)

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.11.0 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

Following on the tail of the 1.10.0 release, this release fixes some
important bugs so upgrade is strongly recommended.  Also, a new utility
is introduced (ntfsmount) which is a FUSE 2.3.0 module which allows
mounting of ntfs volumes from userspace.  The volumes are then accessed
using functionality provided by the ntfs library (libntfs).  For
developers, there is also a new utility (ntfsdecrypt), built only with
"make extra", which decrypts encrypted ntfs files.  Note this only works
on Windows/Cygwin at present as it needs the Windows Crypto API to
obtain the users private key.

You can download rpms and source code of the 1.11.0 release:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from Sourceforge CVS, for details see:

        http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13956

ChangeLog since 1.10.0 release:
- ntfscp: fix signal hanling: handle both SIGTERM and SIGINT, print
  correct message.  (Yura)
- Update manual pages for ntfsprogs, ntfsclone, ntfsresize and
  ntfsfix.  (Szaka)
- ntfsclone: detect and hint users if the destination fs does not
  support sparse files.  (Szaka)
- Fix memory managament error in ntfs_inode_close.  (Yura)
- Add new utility - ntfsmount.  It is a FUSE module that reles on
  libntfs.  (Yura)
- ntfsresize: support bad clusters list ($BadClus:$Bad), a.k.a. disks
  having bad sectors if the new --bad-sectors option is used.  (Szaka)
- ntfsinfo: Dump $EA_INFORMATION and $EA attributes.  (Yura)
- mkntfs: Fix backup bootsector creation.  Thanks to Timur Amirkhanov
  for pointing these stupidities out.  (We forgot to set the size
  before doing it and we wrote more bytes then there were in the buffer
  if sector size was above 8kiB and we only reserved one sector even
  when sector size was less than 512 bytes and then we wrote 512 bytes,
  i.e. beyond the end of the device.)  (Anton)
- Add new utility (make extra) - ntfsdecrypt.  (Yuval)
- Improve "already mounted" check.  (Yura)
- Remove AC_FUNC_MALLOC and AC_FUNC_REALLOC from configure.ac as we
  do not provide replacement functions for them and the checks break
  cross compilation.  (Christophe)

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.10.0 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

ntfsprogs 1.10.0 has now been released.  This release is really long
overdue.  Lots of fixes, changes, and improvements were made to the NTFS
library and the utilities.  Corrupt journal files and hibernated Windows
are detected.  The size of files can be changed.  The ntfscp utility was
added.  Ntfsinfo now reveals more information.  Ntfsclone can handle bad
sectors and gently rescue dying disks.  Ntfsfix can repair more types of
corruptions.  Mkntfs creates a clean volume and attempts to create
bootable volumes.  Ntfsresize catches even more types of corruptions
before resizing.  For further information, please read the ChangeLog
below.

You can download rpms and source code from 1.9.4 release:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from Sourceforge CVS, for details see:

	http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=13956

ChangeLog from 1.9.4 release:
- Add start_vcn parameter to ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs() and
  ntfs_mapping_pairs_build() and adapt all callers.
- Bump library version due to source level API change above.
- Add ntfs_debug() and ntfs_error() to make kernel<->userspace porting
  easier.
- ntfsinfo: Added dumping of index records from $INDEX_ROOT and 
  $INDEX_ALLOCATION.  (Yura)
- ntfsinfo: Changed message for resident $INDEX_ALLOCATION to print
  error, because $INDEX_ALLOCATION can't be resident.  (Yura)
- ntfscp: Not longer update $FILE_NAME attributes, because Windows
  doesn't update them unless a rename operation occur.  (Yura)
- ntfsinfo: dump attribute list entries in verbose mode and display
  attribute instance of all attributes.  (Yura)
- new API: attrlist.[ch]::ntfs_attrlist_entry_add add entry to
  attribute list.  (Yura)
- ntfs_inode_sync: write out dirty attribute list from cache to
  disk.  (Yura)
- Add stop_vcn parameter to ntfs_mapping_pairs_build() and adapt
  all callers.  This allows filling an attribute extent with mapping
  pairs and then continuing in a different extent once the first extent
  is full.  (Yura)
- Remove vol->nr_mft_records and update all users.  (Anton)
- Add new API to mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_{alloc,free}().  (Anton)
- Sync inodes before closing attributes or the umount fails.  (Anton)
- Close extent inodes in ntfs_inode_close() when closing a base inode
  and fix handling of ->extent_nis for base inodes.  (Anton)
- Add ntfsmftalloc utility to the extra utilities to help test the mft
  record allocator.  (Anton)
- Fix ntfs_attr_record_resize() to cope with a newsize < 8.  This means
  you can call ntfs_attr_record_resize() with newsize = 0 to delete an
  attribute record from its mft record but you would still need to
  update the attribute list attribute if present.  (Anton)
- Add the useful offsetof() macro to ntfs/support.h which returns the
  offset of a structure element.  (Anton)
- New API: attrib.[ch]::ntfs_make_room_for_attr (it is ported from
  mkntfs).  (Yura)
- New API: attrib.[ch]::ntfs_non_resident_attr_record_add() and
  attrib.[ch]::ntfs_attr_record_rm(). This is low-level functions to
  manipulate attribute extents.  (Yura)
- Improvement to ntfs_non_resident_attr_expand: now it can expand multi
  extent attributes and allocate new MFT records if mapping mapirs
  doesn't fit current.  (Yura)
- Implement attrlist.[ch]::ntfs_attrlist_entry_rm().  (Yura)
- Attribute handling functions always update highest_vcn, if it was
  modified.  (Yura)
- Add new API unistr.[hc]::ntfs_ucsndup().  (Anton)
- Make libntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_open() make a copy of the attribute
  name unless it is one of the internal names.  (Anton)
- New API: attrib.[ch]::ntfs_resident_attr_record_add.  (Yura)
- New API: inode.[ch]::ntfs_inode_add_attrlist.  (Yura)
- New API: attrlist.[ch]::ntfs_attrlist_need.  (Yura)
- ntfsclone: save by using our, not NTFS cluster allocation bitmap. 
  This gives more control in the future what to save.  (Szaka)
- New helper: attrlist.h::ntfs_attrlist_mark_dirty.  (Yura)
- New API: attrib.[ch]::ntfs_attr_update_mapping_pairs and made
  ntfs_non_resident_attr_{shrink,expand} use it, thus attribute resize
  functions is almost completed, but still very experemental and maybe
  dangerous.  (Yura)
- Fix stupid bug in ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx() introduced during
  changes to ntfs_external_attr_find().  This is because
  ntfs_attr_lookup() intentionally does not clear ctx->al_entry but
  does clear ctx->base_ntfs_ino which in turn means that
  ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx() does not clear ctx->al_entry.  Now,
  ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx() always clears ctx->al_entry.
- Rename scpu_to_le{16,32,64}() to cpu_to_sle{16,32,64}() to match the
  kernel.
- ntfsclone: honor bad clusters list ($BadClus:$Bad), known bad sectors
  aren't tried to be saved anymore.  (Szaka)
- Add new API attrib.[ch]::ntfs_attr_record_move_to and make
  ntfs_resident_attr_resize use it.  (Yura)
- Improve ntfs_resident_attr_resize to try make attributes non-resident
  when such convert is reasonable.  (Yura)
- New API attrib.[ch]::ntfs_attr_record_move_away().  (Yura)
- New API inode.[ch]::ntfs_inode_attach_all_extents .  (Yura)
- New API inode.[ch]::ntfs_inode_free_space.  (Yura)
- Improved layout.h::ATTR_RECORD to have {non_,}resident_end and
  compressed_end fields. Use offsetof(ATTR_RECORD, *_end) to get size
  of accordable attribute.  (Yura)
- Make ntfs_attr_update_mapping_pairs and ntfs_inode_add_attrlist use
  ntfs_inode_free_space when there is no enough space for attribute
  list.  (Yura)
- Remove inode.h::NIno{Clear,Set,}AttrListNonResident and attr_list_rl
  field from inode.h::_ntfs_inode struct. Adapt all users.  (Yura)
- Add --attibute, --attr-name and --inode options to ntfscp.  (Yura)
- ntfscp is moved from extra to standard program set.  (Yura)
- Add new high level API inode.[ch]::ntfs_inode_add_attr and make ntfscp
  use it when requested attribute isn't exist.  (Yura)
- Add new high level API inode.[ch]::ntfs_inode_rm_attr.  (Yura)
- Extend ntfs_attr_pwrite to cope with extending the attribute size
  and with instantiating holes.  (Yura)
- Add new API's ntfs_rl_sparse and ntfs_rl_get_copmressed_size.  (Yura)
- ntfsinfo: Dump flags names for $STANDARD_INFORMATION and $FILE_NAME
  attributes.  (Yura)
- Move NAttr{Sparse,Compressed,Encrypted} to inode struct preserving
  the previous interface.  (Yura, with fixes from Anton)
- Rename/move inode.[hc]::ntfs_inode_{add,rm}_attr() to
  attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_{add,rm}(), respectively.  (Anton)
- Update sparse/compressed/encrypted bits in STANDARD_INFORMATION
  during inode sync.  (Yura)
- Rename NTFS_SECTOR_SIZE to NTFS_BLOCK_SIZE to keep in sync with
  kernel driver.  (Yura)
- Port logfile checking routines from the kernel to the library and
  integrate them with mount process.  (Yura)
- ntfscp: Added SIGINT (Ctrl+C) handler, improved error handling in
  sync failed case.  (Yura)
- Fix a nasty runlist merge bug when merging two holes.  (Anton)
- ntfsfix: empty journal and mark volume dirty for chkdsk if ntfs_mount
  failed. This makes read-write mounting of NTFS metadata images 
  possible by ntfsprogs and the kernel driver what were created by
  versions of ntfsclone previous than 2.0.0. (Szaka)
- ntfsclone: added a new option, --ignore-fs-check. It can be used
  only with the --metadata option. The clusters causing the 
  inconsistency are saved too. (Szaka)
- ntfsclone: added a new option, --rescue. It ignores read errors so
  disks having bad sectors (dying disks) can be rescued efficiently,
  with minimal stress on them. (Szaka)
- ntfsfix: fix invalid mft records in $MFTMirr. (Szaka)
- Added a trigger script to the BK repository that will send an email
  to lin...@li... mailing list when someone
  pushes successfully to the ntfsprogs repository on bkbits.net.  This
  is done on the server side and is thus independent of whether the
  client doing the push has got a correct email setup.  (Yura, Anton)
- ntfsclone: make --metadata work with the new $Logfile checking code.
  Save at least the first 16 KiB of $Logfile (the two RSTR records 
  should always be included if present). Save also records used for
  checking empty $Logfile. (Szaka)
- ntfscp: add ability to specify directory as destination file.  (Yura)
- ntfsresize: fix segfault during filesystem check if NTFS was corrupted
  in a way that clusters were referenced outside of the volume.  (Szaka)
- Major rewrite of libntfs/win32_io.c and in particular seek, read, and
  write related code.  As part of this perform run-time detection of
  presence of SetFilePointerEx() and if not present emulate it.
- ntfsclone: --rescue works at the lowest, sector and not cluster level
  thus more data can be rescued. The contents of the unreadable sectors
  are filled by character '?' and the beginning of such sectors are
  marked by "BadSectoR\0".  (Krishna Mohan Gundu, Szaka)
- ntfsclone: fixed an off-by-one error during --metadata in function
  wipe_data().  (Szaka)
- Detect and refuse to mount hibernated Windows during ntfs_mount() if 
  the volume is tried to be opened read-write.  (Szaka)
- Move back from BitKeeper to CVS on SF.net and fix executable
  permissions that got lost during the move.  (Anton)
- ntfsresize: fix segfault during filesystem check if NTFS $Bitmap file
  size was larger than it should have been.  (Szaka)
- mkntfs: Don't mark NTFS dirty if the backup boot sector could be
  successfully created.  (Szaka)
- mkntfs: Add new option -T which fakes the time to be 00:00:00 UTC,
  Jan 1, 1970 instead of the current system time.
- Port collate.[ch] from kernel to library and implement
  ntfs_collate_file_name. Thus we have new API's: ntfs_collate and
  ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported.  (Yura)
- Port index.[ch] from kernel to library. New API's: ntfs_index_lookup,
  ntfs_index_ctx_{get,put}, ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty.  (Yura)
- Implement FILE_NAME attributes update in index during inode sync and
  enable code that set/clean sparse bit. Also add new inode state bit
  FileNameDirty to indicate that FILE_NAME attributes need update.
  At least after attribute resize we leave absolutely consist
  volume.  (Yura)
- Update attribute definition handling.  (Anton, Yura)
- Move utils_pathname_to_inode from to library (dir.c), adapt it
  for the library, rename it to ntfs_pathname_to_inode, update all
  users.  (Yura)
- Set attr_name to NULL in libntfs/attrib.c::__ntfs_attr_init() and
  fixup all callers apropriately.  Thanks to FlatCap/Rich for pointing
  this out.  (Anton)
- Determine endianness in ./configure and use that in addition to
  existing mechanisms for determining endianness.  (Anton)

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ANNOUNCE: ntfsprogs 1.9.4 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

This is really a brown paperbag release.  If you use ntfsprogs on Windows 
or you use ntfsclone, and you just upgraded to 1.9.3, please upgrade 
immediately to 1.9.4.

You can download rpms and source code from:

	http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from bitkeeper:

	bk pull http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfsprogs

ChangeLog from 1.9.3 release:
- Rewrite win32_io.c to allow device level write support.  (Yuval)
- Make ntfscp update file size in $FILE_NAME(0x30) attribute.  (Yura)
- Fix ntfsclone crash when --restore-image was used for block device
  outputs.  (Masaru Kawashima, Szaka)

ChangeLog from 1.9.2 release:
- Fix access of MFT_RECORD->bytes_in_use to use le32_to_cpu() instead
  of le16_to_cpu() in libntfs/volume.c.  (Pete Curran)
- Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere since uchar_t is already
  defined on Solaris to be an unsigned 1-byte character and it is also
  defined like this in POSIX.
- Do not use the ++ operator on a variable when it is being passed as a
  parameter to a macro in libntfs/unistr.c.  (Pete Curran)
- Fix out of source tree build of utilities by changing $top_srcdir to
  $top_builddir in the references to the build library in the makefile
  template ntfsprogs/Makefile.am.  (Yuval)
- Dump general info about an inode in ntfsinfo.  (Yuval)
- Add detection for <sys/byteorder.h> and make endianness detection
  work on Solaris 2.6 (Yuval) and Solaris 9 (Anton).
- Emulate bswap_{16,32,64}() if not available/we cannot find them.
  This has the advantage that the problems on FreeBSD running on big
  endian, 64-bit machine will just disappear as we will emulate the
  calls even though they exist with a different name (bswap16(), etc
  instead of bswap_16(), etc).  (Anton)
- Undelete: add ability to recover ranges of inodes.  (Holger Ohmacht)
- Lots of updates to ntfsinfo, see "bk changes".  (Yuval)
- Fix crash in ntfsinfo for non-resident Security Info. (Yura)
- ntfswipe - wipe file tails and directory indexes (Yura)
- Bugfix in ntfs_rl_pread,pwrite for pos > 0.  (Yura)
- Added special image format support in ntfsclone.  (Per Olofsson)
- Major win32_io.c update implementing ->ioctl, ->sync, ->stat, and
  ->write.  NOTE:  This might break djgpp compatibility.  (Yuval)
- Added truncate option to ntfsundelete.  (mabs)
- Bugfix in ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check that caused it always fail,
  if no maximum limit for attribute size.  (Yura)
- Add new function attrib.c::ntfs_non_resident_attr_expand,
  thus we can expand non resident attributes.  (Yura)
- Add a @start_vcn parameter to
  lcnalloc.[ch]::ntfs_cluster_alloc.  (Yura)
- Add ntfscp utility, at present it can only overwrite files.  It can
  increment/decrease file size if $ATTRIBUTE_LIST not present.  (Yura)
- Added new API lcnalloc.[ch]::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl, and made
  ntfs_cluster_alloc use it.  (Yura)
- Bugfix in ntfs_cluster_alloc for count = 0.  (Yura)
- Bugfix in ntfs_attr_map{_whole_,_}runlist: make it not fail if runlist
  already mapped.  (Yura)
- Make ntfslabel pay attention to --no-action.  (Yuval)
- Several bugfixes in ntfs_cluster_alloc.  (Anton)
- Make all of libntfs only output anything if configured with
  --enable-debug.  The only exception is ntfs_boot_sector_is_ntfs()
  which now uses a new function Sprintf(), provided by debug.h which
  can be #ifdef-ed out if people want it to be truly silent.  (Anton)
- Fix memory leaks in libntfs/attrib.c, ntfsprogs/mkntfs.c and
  ntfsprogs/ntfsundelete.c.  (Christophe)
- Change libntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_make_non_resident() to only
  allocate clusters and attempt to write out data if the attribute size
  is not zero.  (Anton)
- Fix libntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_non_resident_attr_expand() to use
  libntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_map_whole_runlist() instead of
  libntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_map_runlist().  (Anton)
- Change libntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs() and
  libntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_mapping_pairs_build() to treat a NULL runlist
  to mean empty runlist.  (Anton)

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ANNOUNCE: ntfsprogs 1.9.3 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

After a long wait here is the next release.  It includes lots of fixes
and enhancements all over the place.  Upgrade is hence recommended.

You can download rpms and source code from:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from bitkeeper:

        bk pull http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfsprogs

ChangeLog from 1.9.2 release:
- Fix access of MFT_RECORD->bytes_in_use to use le32_to_cpu() instead
  of le16_to_cpu() in libntfs/volume.c.  (Pete Curran)
- Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere since uchar_t is already
  defined on Solaris to be an unsigned 1-byte character and it is also
  defined like this in POSIX.
- Do not use the ++ operator on a variable when it is being passed as a
  parameter to a macro in libntfs/unistr.c.  (Pete Curran)
- Fix out of source tree build of utilities by changing $top_srcdir to
  $top_builddir in the references to the build library in the makefile
  template ntfsprogs/Makefile.am.  (Yuval)
- Dump general info about an inode in ntfsinfo.  (Yuval)
- Add detection for <sys/byteorder.h> and make endianness detection
  work on Solaris 2.6 (Yuval) and Solaris 9 (Anton).
- Emulate bswap_{16,32,64}() if not available/we cannot find them.
  This has the advantage that the problems on FreeBSD running on big
  endian, 64-bit machine will just disappear as we will emulate the
  calls even though they exist with a different name (bswap16(), etc
  instead of bswap_16(), etc).  (Anton)
- Undelete: add ability to recover ranges of inodes.  (Holger Ohmacht)
- Lots of updates to ntfsinfo, see "bk changes".  (Yuval)
- Fix crash in ntfsinfo for non-resident Security Info. (Yura)
- ntfswipe - wipe file tails and directory indexes (Yura)
- Bugfix in ntfs_rl_pread,pwrite for pos > 0.  (Yura)
- Added special image format support in ntfsclone.  (Per Olofsson)
- Major win32_io.c update implementing ->ioctl, ->sync, ->stat, and
  ->write.  NOTE:  This might break djgpp compatibility.  (Yuval)
- Added truncate option to ntfsundelete.  (mabs)
- Bugfix in ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check that caused it always fail,
  if no maximum limit for attribute size.  (Yura)
- Add new function attrib.c::ntfs_non_resident_attr_expand,
  thus we can expand non resident attributes.  (Yura)
- Add a @start_vcn parameter to
  lcnalloc.[ch]::ntfs_cluster_alloc.  (Yura)
- Add ntfscp utility, at present it can only overwrite files.  It can
  increment/decrease file size if $ATTRIBUTE_LIST not present.  (Yura)
- Added new API lcnalloc.[ch]::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl, and made
  ntfs_cluster_alloc use it.  (Yura)
- Bugfix in ntfs_cluster_alloc for count = 0.  (Yura)
- Bugfix in ntfs_attr_map{_whole_,_}runlist: make it not fail if runlist
  already mapped.  (Yura)
- Make ntfslabel pay attention to --no-action.  (Yuval)
- Several bugfixes in ntfs_cluster_alloc.  (Anton)
- Make all of libntfs only output anything if configured with
  --enable-debug.  The only exception is ntfs_boot_sector_is_ntfs()
  which now uses a new function Sprintf(), provided by debug.h which
  can be #ifdef-ed out if people want it to be truly silent.  (Anton)
- Fix memory leaks in libntfs/attrib.c, ntfsprogs/mkntfs.c and
  ntfsprogs/ntfsundelete.c.  (Christophe)
- Change libntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_make_non_resident() to only
  allocate clusters and attempt to write out data if the attribute size
  is not zero.  (Anton)
- Fix libntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_non_resident_attr_expand() to use
  libntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_map_whole_runlist() instead of
  libntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_map_runlist().  (Anton)
- Change libntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs() and
  libntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_mapping_pairs_build() to treat a NULL runlist
  to mean empty runlist.  (Anton)

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/, http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.9.2 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

ntfsprogs 1.9.2 has now been released.  This release fixes three bugs in
the decompression code and adds significant enhancements to ntfsinfo
(dump by path/filename, much more detailed information).  Also, many
cleanups and improvements.  Upgrade is strongly recommended if you are
accessing compressed files.

You can download rpms and source code from:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from bitkeeper:

        bk pull http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfsprogs

ChangeLog from 1.9.1 release:
- Hopefully fix the autogen.sh problems using the --force and touch
  config.h.in sledge hammers.  (Anton)
- Fix the incorrect ntfsclone usage example in the man page.  (Szaka)
- Fix compiler warnings in win32_io.c.  (Yuval)
- Move constant bswap macros out of the ifdefs in endians.h so they are
  always available.  (Yuval)
- Add conditional include of sys/param.h in endians.h which provides
  endianness support on Cygwin.  (Yuval)
- ntfsclone --metadata also saves at least the first 8 KiB of the
  $LogFile.  (Szaka)
- Fix incorrect getopt_long() usage: converted argv[optind-1] to optarg
  so utilities won't do bogus and unexpected things.  (Szaka)
- Add new API security.[hc]::ntfs_sid_is_valid(), ntfs_sid_to_mbs(),
  and ntfs_sid_to_mbs_size().  (Anton)
- Big enhancement of ntfsinfo.  (Yuval, Anton)
- Split mkntfs into multiple functions.  (Yuval)
- Compiler warning fixes in utilities related to GEN_PRINTF() and other
  things, e.g. printf() and static related.  (Yuval)
- Make ntfsclone and ntfsresize endiansafe.  (Anton)
- Remove global variable rl from mkntfs as it was used only in one
  place.  (Yuval, Anton)
- Work around mbstowcs() bug in DJGPP and update workaround for bug in
  mbsrtowcs() on Cygwin.  (Lode, Christophe, Anton)
- Add SetFilePointerEx() emulation to win32_io.c.  (Lode)
- Add inode selection by path/filename to ntfsinfo.  (Yuval)
- Fix a bug where we would not always detect that we have reached the
  end of a compression block because we were ending at minus one byte
  which is effectively the same as being at the end.  The fix is to
  check whether the uncompressed buffer has been fully filled and if so
  we assume we have reached the end of the compression block.  A big
  thank you to Marcin Gibu=B3a for the bug report, the assistance in
  tracking down the bug and testing the fix.  (Anton)
- Fix a bug where we forgot to reset the data_size and initialized_size
  in two error code paths in ntfs_compressed_attr_pread().  (Anton)
- Fix a bug where an uncompressed block could be misdetected as a
  compressed one if it was made up of multiple runs.  (Anton)

Best regards,

	Anton
--=20
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ &
http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] [2.6.6-rc3-bk] NTFS: 2.1.8 release - Improving on data safety.

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

Hi all,

I just sent of this new NTFS release 2.1.8 to Andrew and Linus for
inclusion into the next 2.6 kernel release.

At this point I would also like to say that I am no longer going to work
on NTFS on 2.4 kernels as many of the write support changes to come as
well as all the NFS changes from the 2.1.7 release are 2.6 kernel specific
and backporting them to 2.4 kernels would take far too much time which I
do not have.  So if you want to keep up with the latest NTFS driver, I am
afraid you will have to switch to a 2.6 kernel.  Of course, other people
(Pawel (-;) please feel free to provide backports if you wish...

Here is the email I sent to Andrew and Linus:

Hi Andrew, Hi Linus, please do a

	bk pull http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-2.6

Thanks!  This is the next NTFS release 2.1.8.  It goes a long way towards
ensuring the safety of people's data by refusing read-write mounts when
the inode mirror or the journal are dirty and by emptying the journal when
it is clean so Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale
journal.  Also, the new nano-second kernel time precision is used to
improve on the NTFS <-> Linux time conversion functions.  The detailed
ChangeLog is in the descriptions of the ChangeSets below.

Note the patch is rather large because of a lot of white space cleanups
that happened while editing (removal of trailing spaces and conversion of
spaces to tabs).

This is tested with NTFS volumes with clean and dirty journals created by
Win2k and XP and I am quite confident it will work with NT4 and Win2003
and later.

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/, http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

===================================================================

This will update the following files:

 fs/ntfs/time.c                     |   82 ----
 Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt |   13
 fs/ntfs/ChangeLog                  |   46 ++
 fs/ntfs/Makefile                   |   18
 fs/ntfs/aops.c                     |   46 +-
 fs/ntfs/attrib.c                   |   39 +
 fs/ntfs/compress.c                 |   18
 fs/ntfs/dir.c                      |   98 ++--
 fs/ntfs/inode.c                    |   85 ----
 fs/ntfs/inode.h                    |   53 ++
 fs/ntfs/layout.h                   |  385 ++++++++++---------
 fs/ntfs/logfile.c                  |  737 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/ntfs/logfile.h                  |  305 +++++++++++++++
 fs/ntfs/malloc.h                   |   11
 fs/ntfs/mft.h                      |   15
 fs/ntfs/mst.c                      |   56 +-
 fs/ntfs/ntfs.h                     |   22 -
 fs/ntfs/super.c                    |  520 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 fs/ntfs/time.h                     |  100 +++++
 fs/ntfs/types.h                    |   32 -
 fs/ntfs/volume.h                   |   26 -
 21 files changed, 2070 insertions(+), 637 deletions(-)

through these ChangeSets:

<ai...@ca...> (04/04/24 1.1371.748.5)
   NTFS: Use get_bh() instead of manual atomic_inc() in fs/ntfs/compress.c.

<ai...@ca...> (04/04/24 1.1371.748.6)
   NTFS: - Modify fs/ntfs/time.c::ntfs2utc(), get_current_ntfs_time(), and
           utc2ntfs() to work with struct timespec instead of time_t on the
           Linux UTC time side thus preserving the full precision of the NTFS
           time and only loosing up to 99 nano-seconds in the Linux UTC time.
         - Move fs/ntfs/time.c to fs/ntfs/time.h and make the time functions
           static inline.

<ai...@ca...> (04/04/25 1.1371.748.7)
   NTFS: - Remove unused ntfs_dirty_inode().
         - Cleanup super operations declaration.

<ai...@ca...> (04/04/25 1.1371.748.8)
   NTFS: Wrap flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in #ifdef NTFS_RW.

<ai...@ca...> (04/04/25 1.1371.748.9)
   NTFS: Add NInoTestSetFoo() and NInoTestClearFoo() macro magic to
         fs/ntfs/inode.h and use it to declare NInoTest{Set,Clear}Dirty.

<ai...@ca...> (04/04/25 1.1371.748.10)
   NTFS: Move typedefs for ntfs_attr and test_t from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
         fs/ntfs/inode.h so they can be used elsewhere.

<ai...@ca...> (04/04/25 1.1371.748.11)
   NTFS: Determine the mft mirror size as the number of mirrored mft records
         and store it in ntfs_volume->mftmirr_size (fs/ntfs/super.c).

<ai...@ca...> (04/04/27 1.1525.1.3)
   NTFS: Load the mft mirror at mount time and compare the mft records
         stored in it to the ones in the mft (fs/ntfs/super.c).

<ai...@ca...> (04/04/28 1.1589)
   NTFS: - Fix compiler warnings related to type casting.
         - Move %L to %ll as %L is floating point and %ll is integer which
           is what we want.
         - Add logfile inode to ntfs_volume structure and the code to clean
           it up in super.c.

<ai...@ca...> (04/05/07 1.1594)
   NTFS: Read the journal ($LogFile) and determine if the volume has been
   	 shutdown cleanly and force a read-only mount if not (fs/ntfs/super.c
	 and fs/ntfs/logfile.c).  This is a little bit of a crude check in
	 that we only look at the restart areas and not at the actual log
	 records so that there will be a very small number of cases where we
	 think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean.  This should
	 only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly and did not
	 have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o.

<ai...@ca...> (04/05/07 1.1595)
   NTFS:  Eeek.  Forgot to revert the Makefile before checking it in last time...

<ai...@ca...> (04/05/07 1.1597)
   NTFS: 2.1.8 release - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a
         read-write (re)mount is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it
         with 0xff bytes to ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption
         by replaying a stale journal after Linux has written to the volume.

===================================================================

This is the simple GNU diff -urNp for non-BK users:

I am not including the patch as it is far too big (165kiB) but you can
find it here if you want it:

	http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/linux/

The file is linux-2.6.6-rc3-bk-ntfs-2.1.8.diff or if you prefer a smaller
file, linux-2.6.6-rc3-bk-ntfs-2.1.8.diff.bz2.

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.9.1 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

ntfsprogs 1.9.1 has now been released.  This is a minor update featuring
a mostly rewritten ntfsinfo, mkntfs now creates bootable volumes, some
64-bit architecture fixes and lots of cleanups. Update is recommended
for people using 64-bit architectures.

You can download rpms and source code from:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from bitkeeper:

        bk pull http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfsprogs

ChangeLog from 1.9.0 release:
- Update with SuSE 9.1 beta 1 versions of GNU build system.
- Fix warnings on powerpc architecture where it would seem char is
  unsigned so comparisons with -1 cause a warning that comparison is
  always true/wrong.  (Thanks to Ender for reporting.)
- Modify meaning of ntfs_volume->nr_mft_records to be the number of
  initialized mft records, not total mft records.  This makes far more
  sense and in fact reflects how nr_mft_records is being used in both
  libntfs and the utilities.
- Add new API bitmap.h::ntfs_bitmap_{set,clear}_bit().
- Fix layout.h STANDARD_INFORMATION and FILE_ATTR_FLAGS typedefs by
  adding the packed attribute where it was missing causing havoc due
  to 64 bit alignment.  (Yuval Fledel)
- Fix validation of STANDARD_INFORMATION attribute size in ntfsinfo.c
  and remove relevant FIXME comments.  (Yuval Fledel)
- Add new API security.[hc]::ntfs_guid_is_zero() and ntfs_guid_to_mbs().
- Implement dumping of object id in ntfsinfo.  (Yuval Fledel, me)
- Copy MFT_RECORD typedef to MFT_RECORD_OLD and modify MFT_RECORD to
  contain the NTFS 3.1+ specific fields.  Also, update mkntfs and
  ntfsclone appropriately.
- Add new API mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_{layout,format}() and make
  mkntfs use it.
- Add new API device.[hc]::ntfs_device_partition_start_sector_get() and
  make mkntfs use it.
- Provide a new command line option "-p" to mkntfs to allow the user to
  specify the partition start sector manually.
- Fix mkntfs and ntfsclone to include sys/ioctl.h.
- Define the ioctls we use in ntfsclone if they are not defined, as it
  is done in device.c.
- Do not specify maintainer mode or enable compiler warnings in
  autogen.sh.
- Create new config option --enable-warnings and make that enable all
  the compiler warnings (this used to be done in maintainer mode).
- Remove AM_MAINTAINER_MODE from configure.ac.
- Support the case where $Volume does not have a $VOLUME_NAME
  attribute in ntfs_device_mount() and let ntfslabel create the
  attribute when it is not present.
- Remove the FIXME in ntfs_attr_lookup() and complete the
  implementation of ntfs_external_attr_find() so it now returns the
  attribute list attribute position at which the attribute should be
  inserted in @ctx->al_entry (see descritpion for ntfs_attr_lookup() in
  attrib.c for details).
- Check the mount state of the output device in ntfsclone.
- Correct a too strong sanity check in ntfsclone that prevented
  cloning from larger device to a smaller one but the NTFS image
  could have fit fully.
- Added a few (hopefully) better explanatory messages to ntfsresize.
- Add new API device.[hc]::ntfs_device_heads_get() and make mkntfs use
  it.
- Provide a new command line option "-H" to mkntfs to allow the user to
  specify the number of heads manually.
- Add new API device.[hc]::ntfs_device_sectors_per_track_get() and make
  mkntfs use it.
- Provide a new command line option "-S" to mkntfs to allow the user to
  specify the number of sectors per track manually.
- Remove dumplog utility as it was unnecessary and duplicated the
  functionality of ntfsdump_logfile.
- Cleanup ntfsdump_logfile utility to use more libntfs APIs and other
  cleanups.
- Remove some compiler warnings that appeared with the latest gcc
  update from SUSE 9.1 beta 3.
- Sanitize/update logfile.h somewhat and adapt ntfsdump_logfile.
- Move declaration of a variable in utils.c to beginning of block.
  Thanks to Alexei Alexandrov for the bug report and patch.
- Add the ability to read the logfile from a supplied file using the
  command line option -f to ntfsdump_logfile.
- Updated ntfsclone manual.  (Szaka)
- Added some diagnostic and explanatory messages to ntfsclone.  (Szaka)
- Mostly rewrite ntfsinfo.  (Yuval Fledel and some fixes by me)

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ &
http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] New mailing list: Linux-NTFS-User

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

I have created a new mailing list:

	Lin...@li...

As a replacement for the Linux-NTFS Forums (Help and Open Discussion).

All posts to the forums will automatically be sent to the mailing list
as well but not vice versa, i.e. posts to the mailing list will not show
up on the forums.

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ &
http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.9.0 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

ntfsprogs 1.9.0 has now been released.  ntfsresize now supports
relocation which generally means you are able to resize to any
size you like (see ChangeLog for details). Also numerous build
and code cleanups and fixes are included with the result that,
in addition to Linux, ntfsprogs should now build (at least "make
libs") on FreeBSD, NetBSD, Windows (Cygwin), and DOS (DJGPP).
Further, ntfsprogs should build on all architectures supported
by SuSE and Debian Linux

You can download rpms and source code from:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from bitkeeper:

        bk pull http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfsprogs

ChangeLog from 1.8.5 release:
- In include/ntfs/*.h Wrap all #include "config.h" by #ifdef
  HAVE_CONFIG_H. (Suggested by Christophe.)
- Update doc/CodingStyle.  (Suggested by Szaka.)
- Fix mkntfs for large volumes where the number of clusters would
  exceed the maximum of 32 bits and mkntfs would segfault.  Now we
  increase the cluster size until the number of clusters no longer
  exceeds 32 bits or the maximum cluster size is reached.  We then
  exit with an appropriate error message.  (Thanks to Szaka for the
  bug report.)
- Modify layout.h and logfile.h expanding/naming annonymous structs
  and unions (much like I did earlier in the kernel driver) so that
  the -fms-extensions switch is no longer required.  Also, removed
  the -fms-extensions switch and associated autodetection from
  ./configure.ac.  (Yuval Fledel with small fixes from me)
- Update the build system: autogen.sh now uses autoreconf; run
  autoupdate && autoreconf --force and fixup the fallout damage; rename
  INCLUDES to AM_CPPFLAGS; add $srcdir to getgccver invocation.
- Rename private to priv_data in ntfs_device_alloc() to avoid name
  space clashes with C++.  (Yuval Fledel, modified fix by me)
- Rename 'opt' struct member stdout to std_out in ntfsclone.c because
  stdout is a macro on Cygwin and compilation fails.  (Yuval Fledel)
- Make ntfs_attrs_walk() use AT_UNUSED and CASE_SENSITIVE instead of
  zero when calling ntfs_lookup() for type checking correctness.  (Yuval
  Fledel)
- In attribute lookup code in libntfs/attrib.c, check type against
  AT_UNUSED and not zero.
- Add AC_CANONICAL_HOST([]) to configure.ac and before AC_PROG_CC add
  manual provision of CC=3Dgcc, AR=3Dar, and LD=3Dld if they are not set an=
d
  the target is *-*-*djgpp.  (Requested by Christophe Grenier)
- Provide our own byteswap constant versions in endians.h so we avoid
  the mess that some architectures define only some of them.
- Use head -n 1 instead of -1 in getgccver script.  (From SUSE LINUX)
- Fix typo in ntfsinfo.c.  (From SUSE LINUX)
- Make the device fd in unix_io.c be stored in malloc()ed space pointed
  to by the d_private pointer instead of inside the d_private pointer
  itself.  Makes the warnings on 64 bit architectures go away.
- Fix all occurences of printf with %ll length modifiers but 64 bit
  arguments to typecast the arguments to (unsigned) long long to avoid
  the warnings when compiling on 64 bit architectures.
- Use AC_GNU_SOURCE in configure.ac instead of doing it manually.
- Fix lots of typos in the documentation.  (David Mart=EDnez Moreno)
- Update config.sub and config.guess to latest ones.  (David Mart=EDnez
  Moreno)
- Change Linux-NTFS to ntfsprogs everywhere when talking about the
  package rather than the project (especially man pages affected).
- Add relocation support to ntfsresize.  Note, this modifies the
  command line options a little as well as the returned output so
  applications using ntfsresize might need modifications before they
  will work with the updated ntfsresize.  (Szaka)

Best regards,

	Anton
--=20
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ &
http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.8.5 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

ntfsprogs 1.8.5 has now been released.  This release is basically a
spring clean of the build process with lots of cleanups and a few bug
fixes thrown in for good measure.  Upgrade is not essential.

You can download rpms and source code from:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from bitkeeper:

        bk pull http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfsprogs

ChangeLog from 1.8.4 release:
- Fixup ntfsinfo a little bit and give its manpage a small update to
  reflect reality a little better.
- Fix BLKGETSIZE usage; parameter is unsigned long not long. (Szaka)
- Use BLKGETSIZE64 when available which allows use of devices bigger
  than 2TiB.
- Enable GNU extensions if present.  This means that you need to
  include config.h before any other non-ntfs header files.
- Use AC_SYS_LARGEFILE in configure.ac instead of manually defining
  _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in CFLAGS.  This means that you need to include
  config.h before any other non-ntfs header files.
- Update all source to include config.h before any other non-ntfs
  header files.
- Move include files from ntfsprogs/include to ntfsprogs/include/ntfs
  and adapt build system.  (Feature requested by Christophe Grenier.)
- Fix potential buffer overflow bug in ntfsprogs/mkntfs.c::stoucs().
  Thanks to Andras Erdei.
- Small cleanup of ./configure.ac to show better formatted option help
  text and other little bits.
- Add --disable-default-device-io-ops option to ./configure which makes
  for a smaller libntfs but results in ntfs_mount() always returning
  error with errno set to ENOTSUP.  You need to use ntfs_device_mount()
  instead.  This only makes sense with "make libs" and when an
  application linking statically against libntfs provides its own
  device io operations.  (Feature requested by Christophe Grenier.)
- Fix a duplicated free() in mkntfs. (Andras Erdei)
- Fix option display in mkntfs. (Andras Erdei)

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ &
http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.8.4 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

ntfsprogs 1.8.4 has now been released.  This release fixes memory leaks
(mostly in directory lookup/handling code).  Thanks to Christophe
Grenier and valgrind for finding them.  Upgrade is highly recommended.

You can download rpms and source code from:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from bitkeeper:

        bk pull http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfsprogs

ChangeLog from 1.8.4 release:
- Fix memory leaks in libntfs/dir.c::ntfs_inode_lookup_by_name(),
  libntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() and 
  libntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_open().
  Thanks to Christophe Grenier and valgrind for finding them.

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ &
http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] NTFS driver 2.1.6a released for Linux kernel 2.4.24

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

The latest NTFS driver (2.1.6a) is now available for Linux kernel
2.4.24.

This updated release for Linux kernel 2.4.24 also includes a fix for a
bug in handling of compressed directories which caused "du" and "stat"
to report random values for the size of compressed directories.

As always you can download a patch for the kernel from our website:

        http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/downloads.html

Or you can pull the changes from our bitkeeper repository:

        http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-2.4

Happy NTFSing!  (-

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ &
http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.8.3 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

ntfsprogs 1.8.2 has now been released.  This release builds on newer
glibc and implements support for reading compressed files.

You can download rpms and source code from:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from bitkeeper:

        bk pull http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfsprogs

ChangeLog from 1.8.2 release:
- Update ntfsinfo (Matthew J. Fanto, me)
- Add new API attrib.[hc]:ntfs_compressed_attr_pread(). NOTE: You want
to use ntfs_attr_pread() instead which will transparently read the
compressed attribute and return the decompressed data.
- Improve mkntfs linux/major.h use so should work on newer glibc.
- Fix silly bug in ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check() where unbounded
attributes were handled completely wrong. (Thanks to Szaka for spotting
this.)
- Fix wrong print modified %L intead of %ll everywhere. (Szaka, me)
- More Cygwin fixes. (Lode Leroy)

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ &
http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/

[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ntfsprogs 1.8.2 released

[Anton A. <ai...@ca...>]

ntfsprogs 1.8.2 has now been released.  This release builds and works on
FreeBSD thanks to Christophe Grenier.

You can download rpms and source code from:

        http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Or get the changes from bitkeeper:

        bk pull http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfsprogs

ChangeLog from 1.8.1 release:
- Add compatibility for building on FreeBSD. (Christophe Grenier)
- Add new compile target "make libs" which only compiles libntfs.
- Compile fixes for DJGPP. (Chrisophe Grenier, me)
- Note: DJGPP only works with "make libs". not "make" due to absence
  of getopt.h, getopt_long(), snprintf(), and snprintf(). getopt() does
  exist (in unistd.h) so we could switch to that if we wanted.
- Enable lots of compiler warnings in maintainer mode and fix all
  warnings from libntfs.
- Fix memory deallocation bug in mft.c spotted by the additional
  warnings.

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ &
http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/