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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2002-01-10 19:55:47
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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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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/
ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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