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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2002-04-26 13:20:08
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Hi, NTFS 2.0.3 for kernel 2.5.10 is now available. This a small update containing bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements (detailed ChangeLog below). Update recommended. You can download patches for kernel 2.5.10 from Sourceforge: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/downloads.html And of course you can use BitKeeper to get our BitKeeper repository at: http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-tng-2.5 And a on-line view of the repository is available here: http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net:8080/ntfs-tng-2.5 Detailed ChangeLog for 2.0.3: - Remove some dead code from mft.c. - Optimize readpage and read_block functions throughout aops.c so that only initialized blocks are read. Non-initialized ones have their buffer head mapped, zeroed, and set up to date, without scheduling any i/o. Thanks to Al Viro for advice on how to avoid the device i/o. Thanks go to Andrew Morton for spotting the below: - Fix buglet in allocate_compression_buffers() error code path. - Call flush_dcache_page() after modifying page cache page contents in ntfs_file_readpage(). - Check for existence of page buffers throughout aops.c before calling create_empty_buffers(). This happens when an I/O error occurs and the read is retried. (It also happens once writing is implemented so that needed doing anyway but I had left it for later...) - Don't BUG_ON() uptodate and/or mapped buffers throughout aops.c in readpage and read_block functions. Reasoning same as above (i.e. I/O error retries and future write code paths.) Best regards, Anton -- "I've not lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere." - Unknown -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cantab.net> (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.openprojects.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
