[Linux-NTFS-Announce] ANN: Linux-NTFS 1.5.0 released

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

This is to announce release of Linux-NTFS user space support tools 1.5.0.

This release fixes several bugs and contains multiple feature enhancements. 
Upgrade is strongly recommended.

Most important changes:

    * It was requested for libntfs that a read-only mount become possible 
so the syntax for ntfs_mount is now changed to accept the MS_RDONLY flag.

    * Further it was requested to fix compilation on other architectures. I 
hope I achieved this but I don't have any other arch, so please complain if 
it doesn't compile on your arch.

    * For detailed list of changes see the ChangeLog below.

Linux-NTFS packages (your choice of source tar.gz or rpm, binary i386.rpm 
and devel rpm, debian packages only available for 1.4.0 release) can be 
downloaded from the Linux-NTFS home page at:

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

Or if you prefer CVS access, look at the project home page on Sourceforge 
for details how to access the CVS server:

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

ChangeLog:

1.5.0:

* Fix bug in $LogFile size calculation where we would take the size to be 
zero on partitions between 200 and 400MiB in size.
* Add requirement for linux-ntfs to linux-ntfs-devel rpm.
* Remove atomic ops and add compiler version check. Hopefully this will 
preempt "it doesn't compile for me" messages from people with gcc < 2.96.
* Change bail out error check for seek to backup boot sector to a warning 
since SuSE 7.2 + loads of stuff and 2.5.1-pre11 returns EINVAL instead of 
ENOSPC.
* Remove atomic code as it isn't defined on non-i386 arches.
* Change ntfs_mount to accept second argument for mount flags. - 
ntfs_mount() now supports mount flags as per "man 2 mount". Currently only 
the MS_RDONLY flag is supported/implemented. This breaks compatibility with 
older libntfs versions and hence the major version number of the library 
has been increased.
* Adapt utilities to make use of new ntfs_mount syntax.
* Add description of compression algorithm.

For older changes, see the ChangeLog file in the release or in CVS.

Best regards,

Anton


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