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2 - Find and fix bugs.
3 - Checkpoint or disable the user space journal ($UsnJrnl).
4 - In between ntfs_prepare/commit_write, need exclusion between
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5 simultaneous file extensions. This is given to us by holding i_sem
6 on the inode. The only places in the kernel when a file is resized
7 are prepare/commit write and truncate for both of which i_sem is
8 held. Just have to be careful in readpage/writepage and all other
9 helpers not running under i_sem that we play nice...
10 Also need to be careful with initialized_size extention in
1da177e4 11 ntfs_prepare_write. Basically, just be _very_ careful in this code...
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12 UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are read/writepage
13 which do not hold i_sem. Note writepage cannot change i_size but it
14 needs to cope with a concurrent i_size change, just like readpage.
15 Also both need to cope with concurrent changes to the other sizes,
16 i.e. initialized/allocated/compressed size, as well.
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17 - Implement mft.c::sync_mft_mirror_umount(). We currently will just
18 leave the volume dirty on umount if the final iput(vol->mft_ino)
19 causes a write of any mirrored mft records due to the mft mirror
20 inode having been discarded already. Whether this can actually ever
21 happen is unclear however so it is worth waiting until someone hits
22 the problem.
23 - Enable the code for setting the NT4 compatibility flag when we start
24 making NTFS 1.2 specific modifications.
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28 - Add printk rate limiting for ntfs_warning() and ntfs_error() when
29 compiled without debug. This avoids a possible denial of service
30 attack. Thanks to Carl-Daniel Hailfinger from SuSE for pointing this
31 out.
8907547d 32 - Fix compilation warnings on ia64. (Randy Dunlap)
da28438c 33 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_set().
66129f88 34 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_{check,empty}_logfile().
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35 - Use i_size_read() once and then use the cached value in
36 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_alloc().
d4b9ba7b 37 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open().
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38 - Add size_lock to the ntfs_inode structure. This is an rw spinlock
39 and it locks against access to the inode sizes. Note, ->size_lock
40 is also accessed from irq context so you must use the _irqsave and
41 _irqrestore lock and unlock functions, respectively.
42 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/compress.c at the start of the read and
43 use the cached value afterwards. Cache the initialized_size in the
44 same way and protect access to the two sizes using the size_lock.
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45 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/dir.c once and then use the cached
46 value afterwards.
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47 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/super.c once and then use the cached
48 value afterwards. Cache the initialized_size in the same way and
49 protect access to the two sizes using the size_lock.
50 - Minor optimization to fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() and its helpers.
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51 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/inode.c once and then use the cached
52 value afterwards when reading the size of the bitmap inode.
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53 - Use i_size_{read,write}() in fs/ntfs/{aops.c,mft.c} and protect
54 access to the i_size and other size fields using the size_lock.
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55 - Implement extension of resident files in the regular file write code
56 paths (fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{prepare,commit}_write()). At present
57 this only works until the data attribute becomes too big for the mft
58 record after which we abort the write returning -EOPNOTSUPP from
59 ntfs_prepare_write().
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60 - Add disable_sparse mount option together with a per volume sparse
61 enable bit which is set appropriately and a per inode sparse disable
62 bit which is preset on some system file inodes as appropriate.
63 - Enforce that sparse support is disabled on NTFS volumes pre 3.0.
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64 - Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() in
65 the creation of the unmapped runlist element for the base attribute
66 extent.
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67 - Split ntfs_map_runlist() into ntfs_map_runlist() and a non-locking
68 helper ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() which is used by ntfs_map_runlist().
69 This allows us to map runlist fragments with the runlist lock already
70 held without having to drop and reacquire it around the call. Adapt
71 all callers.
72 - Change ntfs_find_vcn() to ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() which takes a locked
73 runlist. This allows us to find runlist elements with the runlist
74 lock already held without having to drop and reacquire it around the
75 call. Adapt all callers.
37e4c13b 76 - Change time to u64 in time.h::ntfs2utc() as it otherwise generates a
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77 warning in the do_div() call on sparc32. Thanks to Meelis Roos for
78 the report and analysis of the warning.
37e4c13b 79 - Fix a nasty runlist merge bug when merging two holes.
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80 - Set the ntfs_inode->allocated_size to the real allocated size in the
81 mft record for resident attributes (fs/ntfs/inode.c).
82 - Small readability cleanup to use "a" instead of "ctx->attr"
83 everywhere (fs/ntfs/inode.c).
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84 - Make fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_{parent,dentry} static and move the
85 definition of ntfs_export_ops from fs/ntfs/super.c to namei.c. Also,
86 declare ntfs_export_ops in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h.
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87 - Correct sparse file handling. The compressed values need to be
88 checked and set in the ntfs inode as done for compressed files and
89 the compressed size needs to be used for vfs inode->i_blocks instead
90 of the allocated size, again, as done for compressed files.
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91 - Add AT_EA in addition to AT_DATA to whitelist for being allowed to be
92 non-resident in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident().
93 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_vcn_to_lcn_nolock() used by the new
94 write code.
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95 - Fix bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() where after
96 dropping the read lock and taking the write lock we were not checking
97 whether someone else did not already do the work we wanted to do.
98 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() to
99 ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() and update all callers.
2bfb4fff 100 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_make_non_resident().
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101 - Fix sign of various error return values to be negative in
102 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c.
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103 - Modify ->readpage and ->writepage (fs/ntfs/aops.c) so they detect and
104 handle the case where an attribute is converted from resident to
105 non-resident by a concurrent file write.
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106 - Remove checks for NULL before calling kfree() since kfree() does the
107 checking itself. (Jesper Juhl)
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108 - Some utilities modify the boot sector but do not update the checksum.
109 Thus, relax the checking in fs/ntfs/super.c::is_boot_sector_ntfs() to
110 only emit a warning when the checksum is incorrect rather than
111 refusing the mount. Thanks to Bernd Casimir for pointing this
112 problem out.
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1142.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
115
116 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate().
117 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to return an error code
118 instead of void and provide a helper ntfs_truncate_vfs() for the
119 vfs ->truncate method.
120 - Add a new ntfs inode flag NInoTruncateFailed() and modify
121 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to set and clear it appropriately.
122 - Fix min_size and max_size definitions in ATTR_DEF structure in
123 fs/ntfs/layout.h to be signed.
124 - Add attribute definition handling helpers to fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]:
125 ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check(), ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident(), and
126 ntfs_attr_can_be_resident(), which in turn use the new private helper
127 ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef().
128 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty(), take the
129 mapping->private_lock around the dirtying of the buffer heads
130 analagous to the way it is done in __set_page_dirty_buffers().
131 - Ensure the mft record size does not exceed the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at
132 mount time as this cannot work with the current implementation.
133 - Check for location of attribute name and improve error handling in
134 general in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() and friends.
135 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage(), if the page is fully outside
136 i_size, i.e. race with truncate, invalidate the buffers on the page
137 so that they become freeable and hence the page does not leak.
138 - Remove unused function fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_merge(). (Adrian
139 Bunk)
140 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_find() that resulted in
141 a NULL pointer dereference in the error code path when a corrupt
142 attribute was found. (Thanks to Domen Puncer for the bug report.)
143 - Add MODULE_VERSION() to fs/ntfs/super.c.
144 - Make several functions and variables static. (Adrian Bunk)
145 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() so it allocates
146 buffers for the page if they are not present and then marks the
147 buffers belonging to the ntfs record dirty. This causes the buffers
148 to become busy and hence they are safe from removal until the page
149 has been written out.
150 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find() in the
151 error handling code path that resulted in a BUG() due to trying to
152 unmap an extent mft record when the mapping of it had failed and it
153 thus was not mapped. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for the bug report.)
154 - Drop the runlist lock after the vcn has been read in
155 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::__ntfs_cluster_free().
156 - Rewrite handling of multi sector transfer errors. We now do not set
157 PageError() when such errors are detected in the async i/o handler
158 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(). All users of mst
159 protected attributes now check the magic of each ntfs record as they
160 use it and act appropriately. This has the effect of making errors
161 granular per ntfs record rather than per page which solves the case
162 where we cannot access any of the ntfs records in a page when a
163 single one of them had an mst error. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for
164 the bug report.)
165 - Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date()
166 where we failed to release i_sem on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode.
167 - Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
168 - Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e.
169 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(),
170 and write_mft_record_nolock(). From now on we require that the
171 complete runlist for the mft mirror is always mapped into memory.
172 - Add creation of buffers to fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
173 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block().
174 - Cleanup fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page() since we know that a
175 resident attribute will be smaller than a page which makes the code
176 simpler. Also make the code more tolerant to concurrent ->truncate.
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1782.1.21 - Fix some races and bugs, rewrite mft write code, add mft allocator.
179
180 - Implement extent mft record deallocation
181 fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_extent_mft_record_free().
182 - Splitt runlist related functions off from attrib.[hc] to runlist.[hc].
183 - Add vol->mft_data_pos and initialize it at mount time.
184 - Rename init_runlist() to ntfs_init_runlist(), ntfs_vcn_to_lcn() to
185 ntfs_rl_vcn_to_lcn(), decompress_mapping_pairs() to
186 ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(), ntfs_merge_runlists() to
187 ntfs_runlists_merge() and adapt all callers.
188 - Add fs/ntfs/runlist.[hc]::ntfs_get_nr_significant_bytes(),
189 ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs(), ntfs_write_significant_bytes(),
190 and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build(), adapted from libntfs.
191 - Make fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() not
192 static and add a declaration for it to lcnalloc.h.
193 - Add fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.h::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl() which is a static
194 inline wrapper for ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() which takes the
195 cluster bitmap lock for the duration of the call.
196 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_record_resize().
197 - Implement the equivalent of memset() for an ntfs attribute in
198 fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_set() and switch
199 fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_empty_logfile() to using it.
200 - Remove unnecessary casts from LCN_* constants.
201 - Implement fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock().
202 - Add MFT_RECORD_OLD as a copy of MFT_RECORD in fs/ntfs/layout.h and
203 change MFT_RECORD to contain the NTFS 3.1+ specific fields.
204 - Add a helper function fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which
205 marks all buffers belonging to an ntfs record dirty, followed by
206 marking the page the ntfs record is in dirty and also marking the vfs
207 inode containing the ntfs record dirty (I_DIRTY_PAGES).
208 - Switch fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to using the
209 new helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and remove the no
210 longer needed fs/ntfs/index.[hc]::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty().
211 - Move ntfs_{un,}map_page() from ntfs.h to aops.h and fix resulting
212 include errors.
213 - Move the typedefs for runlist_element and runlist from types.h to
214 runlist.h and fix resulting include errors.
215 - Remove unused {__,}format_mft_record() from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
216 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::__mark_mft_record_dirty() to use the helper
217 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which also changes the behaviour in that we
218 now set the buffers belonging to the mft record dirty as well as the
219 page itself.
220 - Update fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and sync_mft_mirror()
221 to cope with the fact that there now are dirty buffers in mft pages.
222 - Update fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode() to also use the helper
223 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and thus to set the buffers belonging to the
224 mft record dirty as well as the page itself.
225 - Fix compiler warnings on x86-64 in fs/ntfs/dir.c. (Randy Dunlap,
226 slightly modified by me)
227 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record() which fails with -EALREADY if
228 the mft record is already locked and otherwise behaves the same way
229 as fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_mft_record().
230 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() so that it only
231 writes the mft record if the buffers belonging to it are dirty.
232 Otherwise we assume that it was written out by other means already.
233 - Attempting to write outside initialized size is _not_ a bug so remove
234 the bug check from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(). It is in
235 fact required to write outside initialized size when preparing to
236 extend the initialized size.
237 - Map the page instead of using page_address() before writing to it in
238 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mft_writepage().
239 - Provide exclusion between opening an inode / mapping an mft record
240 and accessing the mft record in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage()
241 by setting the page not uptodate throughout ntfs_mft_writepage().
242 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block()
243 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
244 - Add the helper fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_may_write_mft_record() which
245 checks if an mft record may be written out safely obtaining any
246 necessary locks in the process. This is used by
247 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block().
248 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to also work for
249 writing mft records and improve its error handling in the process.
250 Now if any of the records in the page fail to be written out, all
251 other records will be written out instead of aborting completely.
252 - Remove ntfs_mft_aops and update all users to use ntfs_mst_aops.
253 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to set the
254 ntfs_mst_aops for all inodes which are NInoMstProtected() and
255 ntfs_aops for all other inodes.
256 - Rename fs/ntfs/mft.c::sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() to
257 ntfs_sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() and change their parameters so they
258 no longer require an ntfs inode to be present. Update all callers.
259 - Cleanup the error handling in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
260 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror()
261 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
262 - Remove the no longer needed fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() and
263 fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record().
264 - Fix callers of fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to call it
265 with the ntfs inode which contains the page rather than the ntfs
266 inode the mft record of which is in the page.
267 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by moving the
268 index inode bitmap inode release code from there to
269 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_clear_big_inode(). (Thanks to Christoph
270 Hellwig for spotting this.)
271 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by taking the
272 inode semaphore around the code that sets ni->itype.index.bmp_ino to
273 NULL and reorganize the code to optimize it a bit. (Thanks to
274 Christoph Hellwig for spotting this.)
275 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to no longer take the
276 ntfs inode as a parameter as this is confusing and misleading and the
277 needed ntfs inode is available via NTFS_I(page->mapping->host).
278 Adapt all callers to this change.
279 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and
280 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to only check the dirty state
281 of the first buffer in a record and to take this as the ntfs record
282 dirty state. We cannot look at the dirty state for subsequent
283 buffers because we might be racing with
284 fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty().
285 - Move the static inline ntfs_init_big_inode() from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
286 inode.h and make fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_init_inode() non-static and
287 add a declaration for it to inode.h. Fix some compilation issues
288 that resulted due to #includes and header file interdependencies.
289 - Simplify setup of i_mode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode().
290 - Add helpers fs/ntfs/layout.h::MK_MREF() and MK_LE_MREF().
291 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() to only verify the mft
292 record sequence number if it is specified (i.e. not zero).
293 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_alloc() and various helper
294 functions used by it.
295 - Update Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt with instructions on how to
296 use the Device-Mapper driver with NTFS ftdisk/LDM raid. This removes
297 the linear raid problem with the Software RAID / MD driver when one
298 or more of the devices has an odd number of sectors.
299
3002.1.20 - Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release.
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302 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx()
303 where we did not clear ctx->al_entry but it was still set due to
304 changes in ntfs_attr_lookup() and ntfs_external_attr_find() in
305 particular.
306 - Fix another stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find()
307 where we forgot to unmap the extent mft record when we had finished
308 enumerating an attribute which caused a bug check to trigger when the
309 VFS calls ->clear_inode.
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3112.1.19 - Many cleanups, improvements, and a minor bug fix.
312
313 - Update ->setattr (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) to refuse to
314 change the uid, gid, and mode of an inode as we do not support NTFS
315 ACLs yet.
316 - Remove BKL use from ntfs_setattr() syncing up with the rest of the
317 kernel.
318 - Get rid of the ugly transparent union in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir()
319 and ntfs_filldir() as per suggestion from Al Viro.
320 - Change '\0' and L'\0' to simply 0 as per advice from Linus Torvalds.
321 - Update ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) to check if the
322 inode size has changed and to only output an error if so.
323 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.h::attribute_value_length() to ntfs_attr_size().
324 - Add le{16,32,64} as well as sle{16,32,64} data types to
325 fs/ntfs/types.h.
326 - Change ntfschar to be le16 instead of u16 in fs/ntfs/types.h.
327 - Add le versions of VCN, LCN, and LSN called leVCN, leLCN, and leLSN,
328 respectively, to fs/ntfs/types.h.
329 - Update endianness conversion macros in fs/ntfs/endian.h to use the
330 new types as appropriate.
331 - Do proper type casting when using sle64_to_cpup() in fs/ntfs/dir.c
332 and index.c.
333 - Add leMFT_REF data type to fs/ntfs/layout.h.
334 - Update all NTFS header files with the new little endian data types.
335 Affected files are fs/ntfs/layout.h, logfile.h, and time.h.
336 - Do proper type casting when using ntfs_is_*_recordp() in
337 fs/ntfs/logfile.c, mft.c, and super.c.
338 - Fix all the sparse bitwise warnings. Had to change all the typedef
339 enums storing little endian values to simple enums plus a typedef for
340 the datatype to make sparse happy.
341 - Fix a bug found by the new sparse bitwise warnings where the default
342 upcase table was defined as a pointer to wchar_t rather than ntfschar
343 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h and super.c.
344 - Change {const_,}cpu_to_le{16,32}(0) to just 0 as suggested by Al Viro.
345
3462.1.18 - Fix scheduling latencies at mount time as well as an endianness bug.
347
348 - Remove vol->nr_mft_records as it was pretty meaningless and optimize
349 the calculation of total/free inodes as used by statfs().
350 - Fix scheduling latencies in ntfs_fill_super() by dropping the BKL
351 because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock semaphore which
352 provides safe locking. (Ingo Molnar)
353 - Fix a potential bug in fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() that
354 could occur in the future for when we start closing/freeing extent
355 inodes if we don't set base_ni->ext.extent_ntfs_inos to NULL after
356 we free it.
357 - Rename {find,lookup}_attr() to ntfs_attr_{find,lookup}() as well as
358 find_external_attr() to ntfs_external_attr_find() to cleanup the
359 namespace a bit and to be more consistent with libntfs.
360 - Rename {{re,}init,get,put}_attr_search_ctx() to
361 ntfs_attr_{{re,}init,get,put}_search_ctx() as well as the type
362 attr_search_context to ntfs_attr_search_ctx.
363 - Force use of ntfs_attr_find() in ntfs_attr_lookup() when searching
364 for the attribute list attribute itself.
365 - Fix endianness bug in ntfs_external_attr_find().
366 - Change ntfs_{external_,}attr_find() to return 0 on success, -ENOENT
367 if the attribute is not found, and -EIO on real error. In the case
368 of -ENOENT, the search context is updated to describe the attribute
369 before which the attribute being searched for would need to be
370 inserted if such an action were to be desired and in the case of
371 ntfs_external_attr_find() the search context is also updated to
372 indicate the attribute list entry before which the attribute list
373 entry of the attribute being searched for would need to be inserted
374 if such an action were to be desired. Also make ntfs_find_attr()
375 static and remove its prototype from attrib.h as it is not used
376 anywhere other than attrib.c. Update ntfs_attr_lookup() and all
377 callers of ntfs_{external,}attr_{find,lookup}() for the new return
378 values.
379 - Minor cleanup of fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_init_locked_inode().
380
3812.1.17 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths and other updates.
382
383 - Implement bitmap modification code (fs/ntfs/bitmap.[hc]). This
384 includes functions to set/clear a single bit or a run of bits.
385 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_find_vcn() which returns the locked
386 runlist element containing a particular vcn. It also takes care of
387 mapping any needed runlist fragments.
388 - Implement cluster (de-)allocation code (fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.[hc]).
389 - Load attribute definition table from $AttrDef at mount time.
390 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths involving (de)allocation of
391 the default and volume upcase tables.
392 - Remove ntfs_nr_mounts as it is no longer used.
393
3942.1.16 - Implement access time updates, file sync, async io, and read/writev.
395
396 - Add support for readv/writev and aio_read/aio_write (fs/ntfs/file.c).
397 This is done by setting the appropriate file operations pointers to
398 the generic helper functions provided by mm/filemap.c.
399 - Implement fsync, fdatasync, and msync both for files (fs/ntfs/file.c)
400 and directories (fs/ntfs/dir.c).
401 - Add support for {a,m,c}time updates to inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().
402 Note, except for the root directory and any other system files opened
403 by the user, the system files will not have their access times
404 updated as they are only accessed at the inode level an hence the
405 file level functions which cause the times to be updated are never
406 invoked.
407
4082.1.15 - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
409
410 - Add new element itype.index.collation_rule to the ntfs inode
411 structure and set it appropriately in ntfs_read_locked_inode().
412 - Implement a new inode type "index" to allow efficient access to the
413 indices found in various system files and adapt inode handling
414 accordingly (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]). An index inode is essentially an
415 attribute inode (NInoAttr() is true) with an attribute type of
416 AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION. As such, it is no longer allowed to call
417 ntfs_attr_iget() with an attribute type of AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION as
418 there would be no way to distinguish between normal attribute inodes
419 and index inodes. The function to obtain an index inode is
420 ntfs_index_iget() and it uses the helper function
421 ntfs_read_locked_index_inode(). Note, we do not overload
422 ntfs_attr_iget() as indices consist of multiple attributes so using
423 ntfs_attr_iget() to obtain an index inode would be confusing.
424 - Ensure that there is no overflow when doing page->index <<
425 PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT by casting page->index to s64 in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
426 - Use atomic kmap instead of kmap() in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page()
427 and ntfs_read_block().
428 - Use case sensitive attribute lookups instead of case insensitive ones.
429 - Lock all page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes while
430 accessing them to ensure we never see corrupt data while the page is
431 under writeout.
432 - Add framework for generic ntfs collation (fs/ntfs/collation.[hc]).
433 We have ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported() to check if the collation
434 rule you want to use is supported and ntfs_collation() which actually
435 collates two data items. We currently only support COLLATION_BINARY
436 and COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG but support for other collation rules will
437 be added as the need arises.
438 - Add a new type, ntfs_index_context, to allow retrieval of an index
439 entry using the corresponding index key. To get an index context,
440 use ntfs_index_ctx_get() and to release it, use ntfs_index_ctx_put().
441 This also adds a new slab cache for the index contexts. To lookup a
442 key in an index inode, use ntfs_index_lookup(). After modifying an
443 index entry, call ntfs_index_entry_flush_dcache_page() followed by
444 ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to ensure the changes are written out
445 to disk. For details see fs/ntfs/index.[hc]. Note, at present, if
446 an index entry is in the index allocation attribute rather than the
447 index root attribute it will not be written out (you will get a
448 warning message about discarded changes instead).
449 - Load the quota file ($Quota) and check if quota tracking is enabled
450 and if so, mark the quotas out of date. This causes windows to
451 rescan the volume on boot and update all quota entries.
452 - Add a set_page_dirty address space operation for ntfs_m[fs]t_aops.
453 It is simply set to __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() to make sure that
454 running set_page_dirty() on a page containing mft/ntfs records will
455 not affect the dirty state of the page buffers.
456 - Add fs/ntfs/index.c::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() which sets all
457 buffers that are inside the ntfs record in the page dirty after which
458 it sets the page dirty. This allows ->writepage to only write the
459 dirty index records rather than having to write all the records in
460 the page. Modify fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to
461 use this rather than __set_page_dirty_nobuffers().
462 - Implement fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() which enables the
463 writing of page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes
464 like the index allocation attribute in directory indices and other
465 indices like $Quota/$Q, etc. This means that the quota is now marked
466 out of date on all volumes rather than only on ones where the quota
467 defaults entry is in the index root attribute of the $Quota/$Q index.
468
4692.1.14 - Fix an NFSd caused deadlock reported by several users.
470
471 - Modify fs/ntfs/ntfs_readdir() to copy the index root attribute value
472 to a buffer so that we can put the search context and unmap the mft
473 record before calling the filldir() callback. We need to do this
474 because of NFSd which calls ->lookup() from its filldir callback()
475 and this causes NTFS to deadlock as ntfs_lookup() maps the mft record
476 of the directory and since ntfs_readdir() has got it mapped already
477 ntfs_lookup() deadlocks.
478
4792.1.13 - Enable overwriting of resident files and housekeeping of system files.
480
481 - Implement writing of mft records (fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]), which includes
482 keeping the mft mirror in sync with the mft when mirrored mft records
483 are written. The functions are write_mft_record{,_nolock}(). The
484 implementation is quite rudimentary for now with lots of things not
485 implemented yet but I am not sure any of them can actually occur so
486 I will wait for people to hit each one and only then implement it.
487 - Commit open system inodes at umount time. This should make it
488 virtually impossible for sync_mft_mirror_umount() to ever be needed.
489 - Implement ->write_inode (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode()) for the
490 ntfs super operations. This gives us inode writing via the VFS inode
491 dirty code paths. Note: Access time updates are not implemented yet.
492 - Implement fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::{,__}mark_mft_record_dirty() and make
493 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and ntfs_commit_write() use it, thus
494 finally enabling resident file overwrite! (-8 This also includes a
495 placeholder for ->writepage (ntfs_mft_writepage()), which for now
496 just redirties the page and returns. Also, at umount time, we for
497 now throw away all mft data page cache pages after the last call to
498 ntfs_commit_inode() in the hope that all inodes will have been
499 written out by then and hence no dirty (meta)data will be lost. We
500 also check for this case and emit an error message telling the user
501 to run chkdsk.
502 - Use set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback() in the resident
503 attribute code path of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() otherwise
504 the radix-tree tag PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the
505 page is clean.
506 - Implement ntfs_mft_writepage() so it now checks if any of the mft
507 records in the page are dirty and if so redirties the page and
508 returns. Otherwise it just returns (after doing set_page_writeback(),
509 unlock_page(), end_page_writeback() or the radix-tree tag
510 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the page is clean), thus
511 alowing the VM to do with the page as it pleases. Also, at umount
512 time, now only throw away dirty mft (meta)data pages if dirty inodes
513 are present and ask the user to email us if they see this happening.
514 - Add functions ntfs_{clear,set}_volume_flags(), to modify the volume
515 information flags (fs/ntfs/super.c).
516 - Mark the volume dirty when (re)mounting read-write and mark it clean
517 when unmounting or remounting read-only. If any volume errors are
518 found, the volume is left marked dirty to force chkdsk to run.
519 - Add code to set the NT4 compatibility flag when (re)mounting
520 read-write for newer NTFS versions but leave it commented out for now
521 since we do not make any modifications that are NTFS 1.2 specific yet
522 and since setting this flag breaks Captive-NTFS which is not nice.
523 This code must be enabled once we start writing NTFS 1.2 specific
524 changes otherwise Windows NTFS driver might crash / cause corruption.
525
5262.1.12 - Fix the second fix to the decompression engine and some cleanups.
527
528 - Add a new address space operations struct, ntfs_mst_aops, for mst
529 protected attributes. This is because the default ntfs_aops do not
530 make sense with mst protected data and were they to write anything to
531 such an attribute they would cause data corruption so we provide
532 ntfs_mst_aops which does not have any write related operations set.
533 - Cleanup dirty ntfs inode handling (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]) which also
534 includes an adapted ntfs_commit_inode() and an implementation of
535 ntfs_write_inode() which for now just cleans dirty inodes without
536 writing them (it does emit a warning that this is happening).
537 - Undo the second decompression engine fix (see 2.1.9 release ChangeLog
538 entry) as it was only fixing a theoretical bug but at the same time
539 it badly broke the handling of sparse and uncompressed compression
540 blocks.
541
5422.1.11 - Driver internal cleanups.
543
544 - Only build logfile.o if building the driver with read-write support.
545 - Really final white space cleanups.
546 - Use generic_ffs() instead of ffs() in logfile.c which allows the
547 log_page_size variable to be optimized by gcc into a constant.
548 - Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere as uchar_t is unsigned 1-byte
549 char as defined by POSIX and as found on some systems.
550
5512.1.10 - Force read-only (re)mounting of volumes with unsupported volume flags.
552
553 - Finish off the white space cleanups (remove trailing spaces, etc).
554 - Clean up ntfs_fill_super() and ntfs_read_inode_mount() by removing
555 the kludges around the first iget(). Instead of (re)setting ->s_op
556 we have the $MFT inode set up by explicit new_inode() / set ->i_ino /
557 insert_inode_hash() / call ntfs_read_inode_mount() directly. This
558 kills the need for second super_operations and allows to return error
559 from ntfs_read_inode_mount() without resorting to ugly "poisoning"
560 tricks. (Al Viro)
561 - Force read-only (re)mounting if any of the following bits are set in
562 the volume information flags:
563 VOLUME_IS_DIRTY, VOLUME_RESIZE_LOG_FILE,
564 VOLUME_UPGRADE_ON_MOUNT, VOLUME_DELETE_USN_UNDERWAY,
565 VOLUME_REPAIR_OBJECT_ID, VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK
566 To make this easier we define VOLUME_MUST_MOUNT_RO_MASK with all the
567 above bits set so the test is made easy.
568
5692.1.9 - Fix two bugs in decompression engine.
570
571 - Fix a bug where we would not always detect that we have reached the
572 end of a compression block because we were ending at minus one byte
573 which is effectively the same as being at the end. The fix is to
574 check whether the uncompressed buffer has been fully filled and if so
575 we assume we have reached the end of the compression block. A big
576 thank you to Marcin Gibuła for the bug report, the assistance in
577 tracking down the bug and testing the fix.
578 - Fix a possible bug where when a compressed read is truncated to the
579 end of the file, the offset inside the last page was not truncated.
580
5812.1.8 - Handle $MFT mirror and $LogFile, improve time handling, and cleanups.
582
583 - Use get_bh() instead of manual atomic_inc() in fs/ntfs/compress.c.
584 - Modify fs/ntfs/time.c::ntfs2utc(), get_current_ntfs_time(), and
585 utc2ntfs() to work with struct timespec instead of time_t on the
586 Linux UTC time side thus preserving the full precision of the NTFS
587 time and only loosing up to 99 nano-seconds in the Linux UTC time.
588 - Move fs/ntfs/time.c to fs/ntfs/time.h and make the time functions
589 static inline.
590 - Remove unused ntfs_dirty_inode().
591 - Cleanup super operations declaration in fs/ntfs/super.c.
592 - Wrap flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in #ifdef NTFS_RW.
593 - Add NInoTestSetFoo() and NInoTestClearFoo() macro magic to
594 fs/ntfs/inode.h and use it to declare NInoTest{Set,Clear}Dirty.
595 - Move typedefs for ntfs_attr and test_t from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
596 fs/ntfs/inode.h so they can be used elsewhere.
597 - Determine the mft mirror size as the number of mirrored mft records
598 and store it in ntfs_volume->mftmirr_size (fs/ntfs/super.c).
599 - Load the mft mirror at mount time and compare the mft records stored
600 in it to the ones in the mft. Force a read-only mount if the two do
601 not match (fs/ntfs/super.c).
602 - Fix type casting related warnings on 64-bit architectures. Thanks
603 to Meelis Roos for reporting them.
604 - Move %L to %ll as %L is floating point and %ll is integer which is
605 what we want.
606 - Read the journal ($LogFile) and determine if the volume has been
607 shutdown cleanly and force a read-only mount if not (fs/ntfs/super.c
608 and fs/ntfs/logfile.c). This is a little bit of a crude check in
609 that we only look at the restart areas and not at the actual log
610 records so that there will be a very small number of cases where we
611 think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean. This should
612 only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly and did not
613 have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o.
614 - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a read-write (re)mount
615 is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it with 0xff bytes to
616 ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale
617 journal after Linux has written to the volume.
618
6192.1.7 - Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes.
620
621 - Set i_generation in the VFS inode from the seq_no of the NTFS inode.
622 - Make ntfs_lookup() NFS export safe, i.e. use d_splice_alias(), etc.
623 - Implement ->get_dentry() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_dentry() as the
624 default doesn't allow inode number 0 which is a valid inode on NTFS
625 and even if it did allow that it uses iget() instead of ntfs_iget()
626 which makes it useless for us.
627 - Implement ->get_parent() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_parent() as the
628 default just returns -EACCES which is not very useful.
629 - Define export operations (->s_export_op) for NTFS (ntfs_export_ops)
630 and set them up in the super block at mount time (super.c) this
631 allows mounted NTFS volumes to be exported via NFS.
632 - Add missing return -EOPNOTSUPP; in
633 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write().
634 - Enforce no atime and no dir atime updates at mount/remount time as
635 they are not implemented yet anyway.
636 - Move a few assignments in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::load_attribute_list() to
637 after a NULL check. Thanks to Dave Jones for pointing this out.
638
6392.1.6 - Fix minor bug in handling of compressed directories.
640
641 - Fix bug in handling of compressed directories. A compressed
642 directory is not really compressed so when we set the ->i_blocks
643 field of a compressed directory inode we were setting it from the
644 non-existing field ni->itype.compressed.size which gave random
645 results... For directories we now always use ni->allocated_size.
646
6472.1.5 - Fix minor bug in attribute list attribute handling.
648
649 - Fix bug in attribute list handling. Actually it is not as much a bug
650 as too much protection in that we were not allowing attribute lists
651 which waste space on disk while Windows XP clearly allows it and in
652 fact creates such attribute lists so our driver was failing.
653 - Update NTFS documentation ready for 2.6 kernel release.
654
6552.1.4 - Reduce compiler requirements.
656
657 - Remove all uses of unnamed structs and unions in the driver to make
658 old and newer gcc versions happy. Makes it a bit uglier IMO but at
659 least people will stop hassling me about it.
660
6612.1.3 - Important bug fixes in corner cases.
662
663 - super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Correct the check for 64-bit
664 clusters. (Philipp Thomas)
665 - attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a
666 multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs
667 Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>)
668
6692.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs.
670
671 - Fix buggy free cluster and free inode determination logic.
672
6732.1.1 - Minor updates.
674
675 - Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files.
676 - Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in
677 fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.ord>)
678 - Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc.
679 - Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write()
680 around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write. Adapt NTFS appropriately
681 in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() by using
682 kmap_atomic(KM_USER0).
683
6842.1.0 - First steps towards write support: implement file overwrite.
685
686 - Add configuration option for developmental write support with an
687 appropriately scary configuration help text.
688 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its
689 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block(). This enables mmap(2) based
690 overwriting of existing files on ntfs. Note: Resident files are
691 only written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so
692 avoid writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
693 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_write(), its
694 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() and their
695 counterparts, fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_write(), and
696 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write(), respectively. Also,
697 add generic_file_write() to the ntfs file operations (fs/ntfs/file.c).
698 This enables write(2) based overwriting of existing files on ntfs.
699 Note: As with mmap(2) based overwriting, resident files are only
700 written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so avoid
701 writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
702 - Implement ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) and
703 ->setattr() (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) inode operations for
704 files with the purpose of intercepting and aborting all i_size
705 changes which we do not support yet. ntfs_truncate() actually only
706 emits a warning message but AFAICS our interception of i_size changes
707 elsewhere means ntfs_truncate() never gets called for i_size changes.
708 It is only called from generic_file_write() when we fail in
709 ntfs_prepare_{,nonresident_}write() in order to discard any
710 instantiated buffers beyond i_size. Thus i_size is not actually
711 changed so our warning message is enough. Unfortunately it is not
712 possible to easily determine if i_size is being changed or not hence
713 we just emit an appropriately worded error message.
714
7152.0.25 - Small bug fixes and cleanups.
716
717 - Unlock the page in an out of memory error code path in
718 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
719 - If fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page() is called on an uptodate page,
720 just unlock the page and return. (This can happen due to ->writepage
721 clearing PageUptodate() during write out of MstProtected()
722 attributes.
723 - Remove leaked write code again.
724
7252.0.24 - Cleanups.
726
727 - Treat BUG_ON() as ASSERT() not VERIFY(), i.e. do not use side effects
728 inside BUG_ON(). (Adam J. Richter)
729 - Split logical OR expressions inside BUG_ON() into individual BUG_ON()
730 calls for improved debugging. (Adam J. Richter)
731 - Add errors flag to the ntfs volume state, accessed via
732 NVol{,Set,Clear}Errors(vol).
733 - Do not allow read-write remounts of read-only volumes with errors.
734 - Clarify comment for ntfs file operation sendfile which was added by
735 Christoph Hellwig a while ago (just using generic_file_sendfile())
736 to say that ntfs ->sendfile is only used for the case where the
737 source data is on the ntfs partition and the destination is
738 somewhere else, i.e. nothing we need to concern ourselves with.
739 - Add generic_file_write() as our ntfs file write operation.
740
7412.0.23 - Major bug fixes (races, deadlocks, non-i386 architectures).
742
743 - Massive internal locking changes to mft record locking. Fixes lock
744 recursion and replaces the mrec_lock read/write semaphore with a
745 mutex. Also removes the now superfluous mft_count. This fixes several
746 race conditions and deadlocks, especially in the future write code.
747 - Fix ntfs over loopback for compressed files by adding an
748 optimization barrier. (gcc was screwing up otherwise ?)
749 - Miscellaneous cleanups all over the code and a fix or two in error
750 handling code paths.
751 Thanks go to Christoph Hellwig for pointing out the following two:
752 - Remove now unused function fs/ntfs/malloc.h::vmalloc_nofs().
753 - Fix ntfs_free() for ia64 and parisc by checking for VMALLOC_END, too.
754
7552.0.22 - Cleanups, mainly to ntfs_readdir(), and use C99 initializers.
756
757 - Change fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_reddir() to only read/write ->f_pos once
758 at entry/exit respectively.
759 - Use C99 initializers for structures.
760 - Remove unused variable blocks from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
761
7622.0.21 - Check for, and refuse to work with too large files/directories/volumes.
763
764 - Limit volume size at mount time to 2TiB on architectures where
765 unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector()).
766 This is the most we can do without overflowing the 32-bit limit of
767 the block device size imposed on us by sb_bread() and sb_getblk()
768 for the time being.
769 - Limit file/directory size at open() time to 16TiB on architectures
770 where unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open() and
771 fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_dir_open()). This is the most we can do without
772 overflowing the page cache page index.
773
7742.0.20 - Support non-resident directory index bitmaps, fix page leak in readdir.
775
776 - Move the directory index bitmap to use an attribute inode instead of
777 having special fields for it inside the ntfs inode structure. This
778 means that the index bitmaps now use the page cache for i/o, too,
779 and also as a side effect we get support for non-resident index
780 bitmaps for free.
781 - Simplify/cleanup error handling in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() and
782 fix a page leak that manifested itself in some cases.
783 - Add fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(), which we need to release the
784 index bitmap inode on the final iput().
785
7862.0.19 - Fix race condition, improvements, and optimizations in i/o interface.
787
788 - Apply block optimization added to fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block()
789 to fs/ntfs/compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() as well.
790 - Drop the "file" from ntfs_file_read_compressed_block().
791 - Rename fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_enb_buffer_read_async() to
792 ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() (more like the fs/buffer.c counterpart).
793 - Update ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() with the improved logic from
794 its updated counterpart fs/buffer.c::end_buffer_async_read(). Apply
795 further logic improvements to better determine when we set PageError.
796 - Update submission of buffers in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
797 check for the buffers being uptodate first in line with the updated
798 fs/buffer.c::block_read_full_page(). This plugs a small race
799 condition.
800
8012.0.18 - Fix race condition in reading of compressed files.
802
803 - There was a narrow window between checking a buffer head for being
804 uptodate and locking it in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block(). We now
805 lock the buffer and then check whether it is uptodate or not.
806
8072.0.17 - Cleanups and optimizations - shrinking the ToDo list.
808
809 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to return an error
810 code and update callers, i.e. ntfs_iget(), to pass that error code
811 up instead of just using -EIO.
812 - Modifications to super.c to ensure that both mount and remount
813 cannot set any write related options when the driver is compiled
814 read-only.
815 - Optimize block resolution in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
816 cache the current runlist element. This should improve performance
817 when reading very large and/or very fragmented data.
818
8192.0.16 - Convert access to $MFT/$BITMAP to attribute inode API.
820
821 - Fix a stupid bug introduced in 2.0.15 where we were unmapping the
822 wrong inode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_attr_iget().
823 - Fix debugging check in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
824 - Convert $MFT/$BITMAP access to attribute inode API and remove all
825 remnants of the ugly mftbmp address space and operations hack. This
826 means we finally have only one readpage function as well as only one
827 async io completion handler. Yey! The mft bitmap is now just an
828 attribute inode and is accessed from vol->mftbmp_ino just as if it
829 were a normal file. Fake inodes rule. (-:
830
8312.0.15 - Fake inodes based attribute i/o via the pagecache, fixes and cleanups.
832
833 - Fix silly bug in fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_options() which was causing
834 remounts to fail when the partition had an entry in /etc/fstab and
835 the entry specified the nls= option.
836 - Apply same macro magic used in fs/ntfs/inode.h to fs/ntfs/volume.h to
837 expand all the helper functions NVolFoo(), NVolSetFoo(), and
838 NVolClearFoo().
839 - Move copyright statement from driver initialisation message to
840 module description (fs/super.c). This makes the initialisation
841 message fit on one line and fits in better with rest of kernel.
842 - Update fs/ntfs/attrib.c::map_run_list() to work on both real and
843 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
844 - Implement fake attribute inodes allowing all attribute i/o to go via
845 the page cache and to use all the normal vfs/mm functionality:
846 - Add ntfs_attr_iget() and its helper ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode()
847 to fs/ntfs/inode.c.
848 - Add needed cleanup code to ntfs_clear_big_inode().
849 - Merge address space operations for files and directories (aops.c),
850 now just have ntfs_aops:
851 - Rename:
852 end_buffer_read_attr_async() -> ntfs_end_buffer_read_async(),
853 ntfs_attr_read_block() -> ntfs_read_block(),
854 ntfs_file_read_page() -> ntfs_readpage().
855 - Rewrite fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_readpage() to work on both real and
856 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
857 - Remove obsolete fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage().
858
8592.0.14 - Run list merging code cleanup, minor locking changes, typo fixes.
860
861 - Change fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() to not rely on BKL by moving
862 the locking out of super.c::get_nr_free_mft_records() and taking and
863 dropping the mftbmp_lock rw_semaphore in ntfs_statfs() itself.
864 - Bring attribute runlist merging code (fs/ntfs/attrib.c) in sync with
865 current userspace ntfs library code. This means that if a merge
866 fails the original runlists are always left unmodified instead of
867 being silently corrupted.
868 - Misc typo fixes.
869
8702.0.13 - Use iget5_locked() in preparation for fake inodes and small cleanups.
871
872 - Remove nr_mft_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_mft_records
873 from ntfs_volume structure.
874 - Remove nr_lcn_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_clusters
875 from ntfs_volume structure.
876 - Use iget5_locked() and friends instead of conventional iget(). Wrap
877 the call in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_iget() and update callers of iget()
878 to use ntfs_iget(). Leave only one iget() call at mount time so we
879 don't need an ntfs_iget_mount().
880 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_new_extent_inode() to take mft_no as an
881 additional argument.
882
8832.0.12 - Initial cleanup of address space operations following 2.0.11 changes.
884
885 - Merge fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_mst_async() and
886 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_file_async() into one function
887 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_attr_async() using NInoMstProtected()
888 to determine whether to apply mst fixups or not.
889 - Above change allows merging fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_file_read_block()
890 and fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() into one function
891 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_attr_read_block(). Also, create a tiny wrapper
892 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() to transform the parameters from
893 the VFS readpage function prototype to the ntfs_attr_read_block()
894 function prototype.
895
8962.0.11 - Initial preparations for fake inode based attribute i/o.
897
898 - Move definition of ntfs_inode_state_bits to fs/ntfs/inode.h and
899 do some macro magic (adapted from include/linux/buffer_head.h) to
900 expand all the helper functions NInoFoo(), NInoSetFoo(), and
901 NInoClearFoo().
902 - Add new flag to ntfs_inode_state_bits: NI_Sparse.
903 - Add new fields to ntfs_inode structure to allow use of fake inodes
904 for attribute i/o: type, name, name_len. Also add new state bits:
905 NI_Attr, which, if set, indicates the inode is a fake inode, and
906 NI_MstProtected, which, if set, indicates the attribute uses multi
907 sector transfer protection, i.e. fixups need to be applied after
908 reads and before/after writes.
909 - Rename fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_inode() to
910 ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_extent_inode() and update callers.
911 - Use ntfs_clear_extent_inode() in fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_clear_inode()
912 instead of ntfs_destroy_extent_inode().
913 - Cleanup memory deallocations in {__,}ntfs_clear_{,big_}inode().
914 - Make all operations on ntfs inode state bits use the NIno* functions.
915 - Set up the new ntfs inode fields and state bits in
916 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_inode() and add appropriate cleanup of
917 allocated memory to __ntfs_clear_inode().
918 - Cleanup ntfs_inode structure a bit for better ordering of elements
919 w.r.t. their size to allow better packing of the structure in memory.
920
9212.0.10 - There can only be 2^32 - 1 inodes on an NTFS volume.
922
923 - Add check at mount time to verify that the number of inodes on the
924 volume does not exceed 2^32 - 1, which is the maximum allowed for
925 NTFS according to Microsoft.
926 - Change mft_no member of ntfs_inode structure to be unsigned long.
927 Update all users. This makes ntfs_inode->mft_no just a copy of struct
928 inode->i_ino. But we can't just always use struct inode->i_ino and
929 remove mft_no because extent inodes do not have an attached struct
930 inode.
931
9322.0.9 - Decompression engine now uses a single buffer and other cleanups.
933
934 - Change decompression engine to use a single buffer protected by a
935 spin lock instead of per-CPU buffers. (Rusty Russell)
936 - Do not update cb_pos when handling a partial final page during
937 decompression of a sparse compression block, as the value is later
938 reset without being read/used. (Rusty Russell)
939 - Switch to using the new KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ for atomic kmap()s. (Andrew
940 Morton)
941 - Change buffer size in ntfs_readdir()/ntfs_filldir() to use
942 NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE which makes the buffers almost 1kiB each but
943 it also makes everything safer so it is a good thing.
944 - Miscellaneous minor cleanups to comments.
945
9462.0.8 - Major updates for handling of case sensitivity and dcache aliasing.
947
948 Big thanks go to Al Viro and other inhabitants of #kernel for investing
949 their time to discuss the case sensitivity and dcache aliasing issues.
950
951 - Remove unused source file fs/ntfs/attraops.c.
952 - Remove show_inodes mount option(s), thus dropping support for
953 displaying of short file names.
954 - Remove deprecated mount option posix.
955 - Restore show_sys_files mount option.
956 - Add new mount option case_sensitive, to determine if the driver
957 treats file names as case sensitive or not. If case sensitive, create
958 file names in the POSIX namespace. Otherwise create file names in the
959 LONG/WIN32 namespace. Note, files remain accessible via their short
960 file name, if it exists.
961 - Remove really dumb logic bug in boot sector recovery code.
962 - Fix dcache aliasing issues wrt short/long file names via changes
963 to fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() and
964 fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup():
965 - Add additional argument to ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() in which we
966 return information about the matching file name if the case is not
967 matching or the match is a short file name. See comments above the
968 function definition for details.
969 - Change ntfs_lookup() to only create dcache entries for the correctly
970 cased file name and only for the WIN32 namespace counterpart of DOS
971 namespace file names. This ensures we have only one dentry per
972 directory and also removes all dcache aliasing issues between short
973 and long file names once we add write support. See comments above
974 function for details.
975 - Fix potential 1 byte overflow in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_ucstonls().
976
9772.0.7 - Minor cleanups and updates for changes in core kernel code.
978
979 - Remove much of the NULL struct element initializers.
980 - Various updates to make compatible with recent kernels.
981 - Remove defines of MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE and include linux/buffer_head.h
982 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h instead.
983 - Remove no longer needed KERNEL_VERSION checks. We are now in the
984 kernel proper so they are no longer needed.
985
9862.0.6 - Major bugfix to make compatible with other kernel changes.
987
988 - Initialize the mftbmp address space properly now that there are more
989 fields in the struct address_space. This was leading to hangs and
990 oopses on umount since 2.5.12 because of changes to other parts of
991 the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space()
992 function...
993 - Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The
994 only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_sem during
995 the call, and i_sem is sufficient protection against changes in the
996 directory inode (including ->i_size).
997 - Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to
998 default_llseek()) as this downs i_sem instead of the BKL which is
999 what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we
1000 no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir().
1001
10022.0.5 - Major bugfix. Buffer overflow in extent inode handling.
1003
1004 - No need to set old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as the
1005 VFS does so via invocation of deactivate_super() calling
1006 fs->fill_super() calling block_kill_super() which does it.
1007 - BKL moved from VFS into dir.c::ntfs_readdir(). (Linus Torvalds)
1008 -> Do we really need it? I don't think so as we have exclusion on
1009 the directory ntfs_inode rw_semaphore mrec_lock. We mmight have to
1010 move the ->f_pos accesses under the mrec_lock though. Check this...
1011 - Fix really, really, really stupid buffer overflow in extent inode
1012 handling in mft.c::map_extent_mft_record().
1013
10142.0.4 - Cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.11.
1015
1016 - Add documentation on how to use the MD driver to be able to use NTFS
1017 stripe and volume sets in Linux and generally cleanup documentation
1018 a bit.
1019 Remove all uses of kdev_t in favour of struct block_device *:
1020 - Change compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() to use
1021 sb_getblk() instead of getblk().
1022 - Change super.c::ntfs_fill_super() to use bdev_hardsect_size() instead
1023 of get_hardsect_size().
1024 - No need to get old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as
1025 fs/super.c::get_sb_bdev() already does this.
1026 - Set bh->b_bdev instead of bh->b_dev throughout aops.c.
1027
10282.0.3 - Small bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements.
1029
1030 - Remove some dead code from mft.c.
1031 - Optimize readpage and read_block functions throughout aops.c so that
1032 only initialized blocks are read. Non-initialized ones have their
1033 buffer head mapped, zeroed, and set up to date, without scheduling
1034 any i/o. Thanks to Al Viro for advice on how to avoid the device i/o.
1035 Thanks go to Andrew Morton for spotting the below:
1036 - Fix buglet in allocate_compression_buffers() error code path.
1037 - Call flush_dcache_page() after modifying page cache page contents in
1038 ntfs_file_readpage().
1039 - Check for existence of page buffers throughout aops.c before calling
1040 create_empty_buffers(). This happens when an I/O error occurs and the
1041 read is retried. (It also happens once writing is implemented so that
1042 needed doing anyway but I had left it for later...)
1043 - Don't BUG_ON() uptodate and/or mapped buffers throughout aops.c in
1044 readpage and read_block functions. Reasoning same as above (i.e. I/O
1045 error retries and future write code paths.)
1046
10472.0.2 - Minor updates and cleanups.
1048
1049 - Cleanup: rename mst.c::__post_read_mst_fixup to post_write_mst_fixup
1050 and cleanup the code a bit, removing the unused size parameter.
1051 - Change default fmask to 0177 and update documentation.
1052 - Change attrib.c::get_attr_search_ctx() to return the search context
1053 directly instead of taking the address of a pointer. A return value
1054 of NULL means the allocation failed. Updated all callers
1055 appropriately.
1056 - Update to 2.5.9 kernel (preserving backwards compatibility) by
1057 replacing all occurences of page->buffers with page_buffers(page).
1058 - Fix minor bugs in runlist merging, also minor cleanup.
1059 - Updates to bootsector layout and mft mirror contents descriptions.
1060 - Small bug fix in error detection in unistr.c and some cleanups.
1061 - Grow name buffer allocations in unistr.c in aligned mutlipled of 64
1062 bytes.
1063
10642.0.1 - Minor updates.
1065
1066 - Make default umask correspond to documentation.
1067 - Improve documentation.
1068 - Set default mode to include execute bit. The {u,f,d}mask can be used
1069 to take it away if desired. This allows binaries to be executed from
1070 a mounted ntfs partition.
1071
10722.0.0 - New version number. Remove TNG from the name. Now in the kernel.
1073
1074 - Add kill_super, just keeping up with the vfs changes in the kernel.
1075 - Repeat some changes from tng-0.0.8 that somehow got lost on the way
1076 from the CVS import into BitKeeper.
1077 - Begin to implement proper handling of allocated_size vs
1078 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size). Done are
1079 mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage(), aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async(),
1080 and attrib.c::load_attribute_list().
1081 - Lock the runlist in attrib.c::load_attribute_list() while using it.
1082 - Fix memory leak in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() and generally
1083 clean up compress.c a little, removing some uncommented/unused debug
1084 code.
1085 - Tidy up dir.c a little bit.
1086 - Don't bother getting the runlist in inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1087 - Merge mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage() and aops.c::ntfs_index_readpage()
1088 creating aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage(), improving the handling of
1089 holes and overflow in the process and implementing the correct
1090 equivalent of ntfs_file_get_block() in ntfs_mst_readpage() itself.
1091 I am aiming for correctness at the moment. Modularisation can come
1092 later.
1093 - Rename aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async() to
1094 end_buffer_read_mst_async() and optimize the overflow checking and
1095 handling.
1096 - Use the host of the mftbmp address space mapping to hold the ntfs
1097 volume. This is needed so the async i/o completion handler can
1098 retrieve a pointer to the volume. Hopefully this will not cause
1099 problems elsewhere in the kernel... Otherwise will need to use a
1100 fake inode.
1101 - Complete implementation of proper handling of allocated_size vs
1102 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size) in whole driver.
1103 Basically aops.c is now completely rewritten.
1104 - Change NTFS driver name to just NTFS and set version number to 2.0.0
1105 to make a clear distinction from the old driver which is still on
1106 version 1.1.22.
1107
1108tng-0.0.8 - 08/03/2002 - Now using BitKeeper, http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/
1109
1110 - Replace bdevname(sb->s_dev) with sb->s_id.
1111 - Remove now superfluous new-line characters in all callers of
1112 ntfs_debug().
1113 - Apply kludge in ntfs_read_inode(), setting i_nlink to 1 for
1114 directories. Without this the "find" utility gets very upset which is
1115 fair enough as Linux/Unix do not support directory hard links.
1116 - Further runlist merging work. (Richard Russon)
1117 - Backwards compatibility for gcc-2.95. (Richard Russon)
1118 - Update to kernel 2.5.5-pre1 and rediff the now tiny patch.
c002f425 1119 - Convert to new filesystem declaration using ->ntfs_get_sb() and
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1120 replacing ntfs_read_super() with ntfs_fill_super().
1121 - Set s_maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to avoid page cache page index
1122 overflow on 32-bit architectures.
1123 - Cleanup upcase loading code to use ntfs_(un)map_page().
1124 - Disable/reenable preemtion in critical sections of compession engine.
1125 - Replace device size determination in ntfs_fill_super() with
1126 sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_size (in bytes) and remove now superfluous
1127 function super.c::get_nr_blocks().
1128 - Implement a mount time option (show_inodes) allowing choice of which
1129 types of inode names readdir() returns and modify ntfs_filldir()
1130 accordingly. There are several parameters to show_inodes:
1131 system: system files
1132 win32: long file names (including POSIX file names) [DEFAULT]
1133 long: same as win32
1134 dos: short file names only (excluding POSIX file names)
1135 short: same as dos
1136 posix: same as both win32 and dos
1137 all: all file names
1138 Note that the options are additive, i.e. specifying:
1139 -o show_inodes=system,show_inodes=win32,show_inodes=dos
1140 is the same as specifying:
1141 -o show_inodes=all
1142 Note that the "posix" and "all" options will show all directory
1143 names, BUT the link count on each directory inode entry is set to 1,
1144 due to Linux not supporting directory hard links. This may well
1145 confuse some userspace applications, since the directory names will
1146 have the same inode numbers. Thus it is NOT advisable to use the
1147 "posix" or "all" options. We provide them only for completeness sake.
1148 - Add copies of allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size to
1149 the ntfs inode structure and set them up in
1150 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). These reflect the unnamed data attribute
1151 for files and the index allocation attribute for directories.
1152 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs inode for
1153 $BITMAP attribute of large directories and set them up in
1154 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1155 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs volume for
1156 $BITMAP attribute of $MFT and set them up in
1157 super.c::load_system_files().
1158 - Parse deprecated ntfs driver options (iocharset, show_sys_files,
1159 posix, and utf8) and tell user what the new options to use are. Note
1160 we still do support them but they will be removed with kernel 2.7.x.
1161 - Change all occurences of integer long long printf formatting to hex
1162 as printk() will not support long long integer format if/when the
1163 div64 patch goes into the kernel.
1164 - Make slab caches have stable names and change the names to what they
1165 were intended to be. These changes are required/made possible by the
1166 new slab cache name handling which removes the length limitation by
1167 requiring the caller of kmem_cache_create() to supply a stable name
1168 which is then referenced but not copied.
1169 - Rename run_list structure to run_list_element and create a new
1170 run_list structure containing a pointer to a run_list_element
1171 structure and a read/write semaphore. Adapt all users of runlists
1172 to new scheme and take and release the lock as needed. This fixes a
1173 nasty race as the run_list changes even when inodes are locked for
1174 reading and even when the inode isn't locked at all, so we really
1175 needed the serialization. We use a semaphore rather than a spinlock
1176 as memory allocations can sleep and doing everything GFP_ATOMIC
1177 would be silly.
1178 - Cleanup read_inode() removing all code checking for lowest_vcn != 0.
1179 This can never happen due to the nature of lookup_attr() and how we
1180 support attribute lists. If it did happen it would imply the inode
1181 being corrupt.
1182 - Check for lowest_vcn != 0 in ntfs_read_inode() and mark the inode as
1183 bad if found.
1184 - Update to 2.5.6-pre2 changes in struct address_space.
1185 - Use parent_ino() when accessing d_parent inode number in dir.c.
1186 - Import Sourceforge CVS repository into BitKeeper repository:
1187 http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-tng-2.5
1188 - Update fs/Makefile, fs/Config.help, fs/Config.in, and
1189 Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for NTFS TNG.
1190 - Create kernel configuration option controlling whether debugging
1191 is enabled or not.
1192 - Add the required export of end_buffer_io_sync() from the patches
1193 directory to the kernel code.
1194 - Update inode.c::ntfs_show_options() with show_inodes mount option.
1195 - Update errors mount option.
1196
1197tng-0.0.7 - 13/02/2002 - The driver is now feature complete for read-only!
1198
1199 - Cleanup mft.c and it's debug/error output in particular. Fix a minor
1200 bug in mapping of extent inodes. Update all the comments to fit all
1201 the recent code changes.
1202 - Modify vcn_to_lcn() to cope with entirely unmapped runlists.
1203 - Cleanups in compress.c, mostly comments and folding help.
1204 - Implement attrib.c::map_run_list() as a generic helper.
1205 - Make compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() use map_run_list()
1206 thus making code shorter and enabling attribute list support.
1207 - Cleanup incorrect use of [su]64 with %L printf format specifier in
1208 all source files. Type casts to [unsigned] long long added to correct
1209 the mismatches (important for architectures which have long long not
1210 being 64 bits).
1211 - Merge async io completion handlers for directory indexes and $MFT
1212 data into one by setting the index_block_size{_bits} of the ntfs
1213 inode for $MFT to the mft_record_size{_bits} of the ntfs_volume.
1214 - Cleanup aops.c, update comments.
1215 - Make ntfs_file_get_block() use map_run_list() so all files now
1216 support attribute lists.
1217 - Make ntfs_dir_readpage() almost verbatim copy of
1218 block_read_full_page() by using ntfs_file_get_block() with only real
1219 difference being the use of our own async io completion handler
1220 rather than the default one, thus reducing the amount of code and
1221 automatically enabling attribute list support for directory indices.
1222 - Fix bug in load_attribute_list() - forgot to call brelse in error
1223 code path.
1224 - Change parameters to find_attr() and lookup_attr(). We no longer
1225 pass in the upcase table and its length. These can be gotten from
1226 ctx->ntfs_ino->vol->upcase{_len}. Update all callers.
1227 - Cleanups in attrib.c.
1228 - Implement merging of runlists, attrib.c::merge_run_lists() and its
1229 helpers. (Richard Russon)
1230 - Attribute lists part 2, attribute extents and multi part runlists:
1231 enable proper support for LCN_RL_NOT_MAPPED and automatic mapping of
1232 further runlist parts via attrib.c::map_run_list().
1233 - Tiny endianness bug fix in decompress_mapping_pairs().
1234
1235tng-0.0.6 - Encrypted directories, bug fixes, cleanups, debugging enhancements.
1236
1237 - Enable encrypted directories. (Their index root is marked encrypted
1238 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1239 encrypted.)
1240 - Fix bug in NInoBmpNonResident() macro. (Cut and paste error.)
1241 - Enable $Extend system directory. Most (if not all) extended system
1242 files do not have unnamed data attributes so ntfs_read_inode() had to
1243 special case them but that is ok, as the special casing recovery
1244 happens inside an error code path so there is zero slow down in the
1245 normal fast path. The special casing is done by introducing a new
1246 function inode.c::ntfs_is_extended_system_file() which checks if any
1247 of the hard links in the inode point to $Extend as being their parent
1248 directory and if they do we assume this is an extended system file.
1249 - Create a sysctl/proc interface to allow {dis,en}abling of debug output
1250 when compiled with -DDEBUG. Default is debug messages to be disabled.
1251 To enable them, one writes a non-zero value to /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
1252 (if /proc is enabled) or uses sysctl(2) to effect the same (if sysctl
1253 interface is enabled). Inspired by old ntfs driver.
1254 - Add debug_msgs insmod/kernel boot parameter to set whether debug
1255 messages are {dis,en}abled. This is useful to enable debug messages
1256 during ntfs initialization and is the only way to activate debugging
1257 when the sysctl interface is not enabled.
1258 - Cleanup debug output in various places.
1259 - Remove all dollar signs ($) from the source (except comments) to
1260 enable compilation on architectures whose gcc compiler does not
1261 support dollar signs in the names of variables/constants. Attribute
1262 types now start with AT_ instead of $ and $I30 is now just I30.
1263 - Cleanup ntfs_lookup() and add consistency check of sequence numbers.
1264 - Load complete runlist for $MFT/$BITMAP during mount and cleanup
1265 access functions. This means we now cope with $MFT/$BITMAP being
1266 spread accross several mft records.
1267 - Disable modification of mft_zone_multiplier on remount. We can always
1268 reenable this later on if we really want to, but we will need to make
1269 sure we readjust the mft_zone size / layout accordingly.
1270
1271tng-0.0.5 - Modernize for 2.5.x and further in line-ing with Al Viro's comments.
1272
1273 - Use sb_set_blocksize() instead of set_blocksize() and verify the
1274 return value.
1275 - Use sb_bread() instead of bread() throughout.
1276 - Add index_vcn_size{_bits} to ntfs_inode structure to store the size
1277 of a directory index block vcn. Apply resulting simplifications in
1278 dir.c everywhere.
1279 - Fix a small bug somewhere (but forgot what it was).
1280 - Change ntfs_{debug,error,warning} to enable gcc to do type checking
1281 on the printf-format parameter list and fix bugs reported by gcc
1282 as a result. (Richard Russon)
1283 - Move inode allocation strategy to Al's new stuff but maintain the
1284 divorce of ntfs_inode from struct inode. To achieve this we have two
1285 separate slab caches, one for big ntfs inodes containing a struct
1286 inode and pure ntfs inodes and at the same time fix some faulty
1287 error code paths in ntfs_read_inode().
1288 - Show mount options in proc (inode.c::ntfs_show_options()).
1289
1290tng-0.0.4 - Big changes, getting in line with Al Viro's comments.
1291
1292 - Modified (un)map_mft_record functions to be common for read and write
1293 case. To specify which is which, added extra parameter at front of
1294 parameter list. Pass either READ or WRITE to this, each has the
1295 obvious meaning.
1296 - General cleanups to allow for easier folding in vi.
1297 - attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() now accepts the old runlist
1298 argument, and invokes attrib.c::merge_run_lists() to merge the old
1299 and the new runlists.
1300 - Removed attrib.c::find_first_attr().
1301 - Implemented loading of attribute list and complete runlist for $MFT.
1302 This means we now cope with $MFT being spread across several mft
1303 records.
1304 - Adapt to 2.5.2-pre9 and the changed create_empty_buffers() syntax.
1305 - Adapt major/minor/kdev_t/[bk]devname stuff to new 2.5.x kernels.
1306 - Make ntfs_volume be allocated via kmalloc() instead of using a slab
1307 cache. There are too little ntfs_volume structures at any one time
1308 to justify a private slab cache.
1309 - Fix bogus kmap() use in async io completion. Now use kmap_atomic().
1310 Use KM_BIO_IRQ on advice from IRC/kernel...
1311 - Use ntfs_map_page() in map_mft_record() and create ->readpage method
1312 for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated
1313 address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also
1314 removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch.
1315 - Fix a bug where kfree() was used insted of ntfs_free().
1316 - Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of
1317 vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers.
1318 - Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode.
1319 - Add mft record number and sequence number to ntfs_inode. Stop using
1320 i_ino and i_generation for in-driver purposes.
1321 - Implement attrib.c::merge_run_lists(). (Richard Russon)
1322 - Remove use of proper inodes by extent inodes. Move i_ino and
1323 i_generation to ntfs_inode to do this. Apply simplifications that
1324 result and remove iget_no_wait(), etc.
1325 - Pass ntfs_inode everywhere in the driver (used to be struct inode).
1326 - Add reference counting in ntfs_inode for the ntfs inode itself and
1327 for the mapped mft record.
1328 - Extend mft record mapping so we can (un)map extent mft records (new
1329 functions (un)map_extent_mft_record), and so mappings are reference
1330 counted and don't have to happen twice if already mapped - just ref
1331 count increases.
1332 - Add -o iocharset as alias to -o nls for backwards compatibility.
1333 - The latest core patch is now tiny. In fact just a single additional
1334 export is necessary over the base kernel.
1335
1336tng-0.0.3 - Cleanups, enhancements, bug fixes.
1337
1338 - Work on attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() to detect base extents
1339 and setup the runlist appropriately using knowledge provided by the
1340 sizes in the base attribute record.
1341 - Balance the get_/put_attr_search_ctx() calls so we don't leak memory
1342 any more.
1343 - Introduce ntfs_malloc_nofs() and ntfs_free() to allocate/free a single
1344 page or use vmalloc depending on the amount of memory requested.
1345 - Cleanup error output. The __FUNCTION__ "(): " is now added
1346 automatically. Introduced a new header file debug.h to support this
1347 and also moved ntfs_debug() function into it.
1348 - Make reading of compressed files more intelligent and especially get
1349 rid of the vmalloc_nofs() from readpage(). This now uses per CPU
1350 buffers (allocated at first mount with cluster size <= 4kiB and
1351 deallocated on last umount with cluster size <= 4kiB), and
1352 asynchronous io for the compressed data using a list of buffer heads.
1353 Er, we use synchronous io as async io only works on whole pages
1354 covered by buffers and not on individual buffer heads...
1355 - Bug fix for reading compressed files with sparse compression blocks.
1356
1357tng-0.0.2 - Now handles larger/fragmented/compressed volumes/files/dirs.
1358
1359 - Fixed handling of directories when cluster size exceeds index block
1360 size.
1361 - Hide DOS only name space directory entries from readdir() but allow
1362 them in lookup(). This should fix the problem that Linux doesn't
1363 support directory hard links, while still allowing access to entries
1364 via their short file name. This also has the benefit of mimicking
1365 what Windows users are used to, so it is the ideal solution.
1366 - Implemented sync_page everywhere so no more hangs in D state when
1367 waiting for a page.
1368 - Stop using bforget() in favour of brelse().
1369 - Stop locking buffers unnecessarily.
1370 - Implemented compressed files (inode->mapping contains uncompressed
1371 data, raw compressed data is currently bread() into a vmalloc()ed
1372 memory buffer).
1373 - Enable compressed directories. (Their index root is marked compressed
1374 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1375 compressed.)
1376 - Use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in the ntfs_error and ntfs_warning
1377 functions. (Thanks to Will Dyson for pointing this out.)
1378 - Moved the ntfs_inode and ntfs_volume (the former ntfs_inode_info and
1379 ntfs_sb_info) out of the common inode and super_block structures and
1380 started using the generic_ip and generic_sbp pointers instead. This
1381 makes ntfs entirely private with respect to the kernel tree.
1382 - Detect compiler version and abort with error message if gcc less than
1383 2.96 is used.
1384 - Fix bug in name comparison function in unistr.c.
1385 - Implement attribute lists part 1, the infrastructure: search contexts
1386 and operations, find_external_attr(), lookup_attr()) and make the
1387 code use the infrastructure.
1388 - Fix stupid buffer overflow bug that became apparent on larger run
1389 list containing attributes.
1390 - Fix bugs in readdir() that became apparent on larger directories.
1391
1392 The driver is now really useful and survives the test
1393 find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
1394 without any error messages on a over 1GiB sized partition with >16k
1395 files on it, including compressed files and directories and many files
1396 and directories with attribute lists.
1397
1398tng-0.0.1 - The first useful version.
1399
1400 - Added ntfs_lookup().
1401 - Added default upcase generation and handling.
1402 - Added compile options to be shown on module init.
1403 - Many bug fixes that were "hidden" before.
1404 - Update to latest kernel.
1405 - Added ntfs_readdir().
1406 - Added file operations for mmap(), read(), open() and llseek(). We just
1407 use the generic ones. The whole point of going through implementing
1408 readpage() methods and where possible get_block() call backs is that
1409 this allows us to make use of the generic high level methods provided
1410 by the kernel.
1411
1412 The driver is now actually useful! Yey. (-: It undoubtedly has got bugs
1413 though and it doesn't implement accesssing compressed files yet. Also,
1414 accessing files with attribute list attributes is not implemented yet
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1416 you to list directories, use stat on directory entries and the file
1417 system, open, read, mmap and llseek around in files. A big mile stone
1418 has been reached!
1419
1420tng-0.0.0 - Initial version tag.
1421
1422 Initial driver implementation. The driver can mount and umount simple
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1424 files). If the mount fails there might be problems in the error handling
1425 code paths, so be warned. Otherwise it seems to be loading the system
1426 files nicely and the mft record read mapping/unmapping seems to be
1427 working nicely, too. Proof of inode metadata in the page cache and non-
1428 resident file unnamed stream data in the page cache concepts is thus
1429 complete.