Changes to NTFS-3G:
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Fixed inserting a new ACL after wiping out by chkdsk
Fixed Windows-type inheritance
Fixed ignoring the umask mount option when permissions are used
Fixed checking permissions when Posix ACLs are compiled in but not enabled
Disabled option remove_hiberfile on read-only mounts
Implemented an extended attribute to get/set EAs
Avoid full runlist updating in more situations
Update ctime after setting an ACL
Use MFT record 15 for the first extent to MFT:DATA
Ignore the sloppy mount option (-s)
Implemented FITRIM (fstrim) ioctl
Reengineered the compression algorithm
Changes to ntfsprogs:
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Return success from ntfsprogs utilities with options –version and the like
Implemented configure option –enable-quarantined for non functional utilities
Added manuals for ntfsdecrypt, ntfswipe, ntfstruncate and ntfsfallocate
libntfs: added use of hd library to get the legacy BIOS geometry
libntfs: switched to /proc/mounts for checking existing mounts
libntfs: fixed usa checking by ntfsck on 4K sector disks
libntfs: fixed processing compressed data beyond file size (Windows 8 compliance)
libntfs: fixed expanding a resident attribute without inserting holes
libntfs: allow DACLs to not have any ACE
libntfs: ignore unmapped regions when checking whether sparse
libntfs: upgraded the Win32 interface for use with ntfsprogs
ntfsresize: enabled relocating the MFT when shrinking a volume
ntfsresize: fixed trying to update the MFT and Bitmap on a test run
ntfsresize: fixed updating all the MFT runs in a relocated MFT
ntfsresize: set the backup boot sector when the size is reliable
ntfsresize: reserved a single sector for the backup boot sector
ntfsundelete: output the modification time when scanning files
ntfsundelete: ported to Windows
ntfsclone: fixed wiping fragmented metadata when creating a metadata image
ntfsclone: allowed cloning a file system despite allocation errors
ntfsclone: fixed bad copying of the backup boot sector
ntfsclone: ported to Windows
ntfsdecrypt: made compatible with libgrypt-1.6
STABLE Version 1.913 (September 13, 2007) Release Notes
* change: free disk space calculation was highly CPU intensive during
write activity. This could reduce write performance severely, especially
for huge volumes if a file manager or desktop applet regularly polled
for disk space usage. Now the calculation is constant time, around only
10 microseconds on a typical desktop, and it's completely independent
of the volume size.
* fix: hibernation check was too rigid and mount was refused in read/write
mode unnecessarily in some cases.
* all performance improvements included unchanged from the 1.910-RC test
release. Please see those details below.
Version 1.910-RC (September 10, 2007) -- Release Notes
* change: significantly improved the performance of writing many files,
typically by 50-1000% (copying files, unpacking, untarring packages,
compilation, directory synchronization, ...).
* change: improved the performance of writing multi-GB size files,
particularly after the creation of many thousands of other files.
Previous disk space defragmentation is highly advised for the best
possible speed. File level defragmentation is not enough.
* change: improved concurrent write performance.
