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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2003-04-22 15:58:30
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > Anton, would you please consider a new NTFS driver release for 2.4.20? > There is also the mount problem fix on 64-bit archs waiting only in BK. > And I've seen this load_attribute_list bug with pagefile.sys, iso and > multimedia files. They are/were highly fragmented, maybe [partly] due to > P2P download softwares and P2P are getting very popular [or they are > already]. > > With a new driver release we could claim, no known problem with the latest > released NTFS-tng driver. I know Mandrake plan to update their driver > (statfs fix) and Gentoo is before release, probably others too ... Ok, preparing the release now. Currently pushing to bkbits.net... The actual release on SF.net may take a while as I need to prepare all the release diffs which are a pain... > I've also noticed announcements (ntfsprogs 1.7.[01] and latest ntfs driver) > stopped to be delivered to the linux-ntfs-announce list. Is it a > SourceForge bug? Or nobody subscribed? I'd guess most people, especially > distro developers, interested in new ntfs releases are subscribed there. If > they ship old drivers we'll be flooded with already fixed issues, e.g. > like this compressed file one. Odd, I thought I had announced them there but maybe I didn't... I will anounce this driver release and see if it appears. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
