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From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2003-04-24 10:14:24
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------> > > A new, rewritten NTFS driver got merged during 2.5. It has the > > following main benefits over the old driver: > > - SMP and reentrant safe > > - support bigger than 4 kB cluster sizes > > - full support for sparse files on W2K/XP/W2K3 > > - mmap() support > > - stable > - much faster > - read-only except for safe file overwrite support without changes to > the file size (a development version allows changes in file size > already and it might be completed in time for 2.6 but no promises) Unfortunately I'm not sure the 'change file size' feature fits the current feature freeze :( > Above is my proposed updates. Otherwise of course it's ok, you must know it the best :) > I didn't know about this list. Where is it? Oops, I forgot to send the URL. Usually it's posted to linux-kernel and some news sites (e.g. Linux Weekly News). Also available here: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt Szaka |
