NTFS: Fix compilation when configured read-only.
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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.
25
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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
1072.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
108
109 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate().
110 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to return an error code
111 instead of void and provide a helper ntfs_truncate_vfs() for the
112 vfs ->truncate method.
113 - Add a new ntfs inode flag NInoTruncateFailed() and modify
114 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to set and clear it appropriately.
115 - Fix min_size and max_size definitions in ATTR_DEF structure in
116 fs/ntfs/layout.h to be signed.
117 - Add attribute definition handling helpers to fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]:
118 ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check(), ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident(), and
119 ntfs_attr_can_be_resident(), which in turn use the new private helper
120 ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef().
121 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty(), take the
122 mapping->private_lock around the dirtying of the buffer heads
123 analagous to the way it is done in __set_page_dirty_buffers().
124 - Ensure the mft record size does not exceed the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at
125 mount time as this cannot work with the current implementation.
126 - Check for location of attribute name and improve error handling in
127 general in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() and friends.
128 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage(), if the page is fully outside
129 i_size, i.e. race with truncate, invalidate the buffers on the page
130 so that they become freeable and hence the page does not leak.
131 - Remove unused function fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_merge(). (Adrian
132 Bunk)
133 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_find() that resulted in
134 a NULL pointer dereference in the error code path when a corrupt
135 attribute was found. (Thanks to Domen Puncer for the bug report.)
136 - Add MODULE_VERSION() to fs/ntfs/super.c.
137 - Make several functions and variables static. (Adrian Bunk)
138 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() so it allocates
139 buffers for the page if they are not present and then marks the
140 buffers belonging to the ntfs record dirty. This causes the buffers
141 to become busy and hence they are safe from removal until the page
142 has been written out.
143 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find() in the
144 error handling code path that resulted in a BUG() due to trying to
145 unmap an extent mft record when the mapping of it had failed and it
146 thus was not mapped. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for the bug report.)
147 - Drop the runlist lock after the vcn has been read in
148 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::__ntfs_cluster_free().
149 - Rewrite handling of multi sector transfer errors. We now do not set
150 PageError() when such errors are detected in the async i/o handler
151 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(). All users of mst
152 protected attributes now check the magic of each ntfs record as they
153 use it and act appropriately. This has the effect of making errors
154 granular per ntfs record rather than per page which solves the case
155 where we cannot access any of the ntfs records in a page when a
156 single one of them had an mst error. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for
157 the bug report.)
158 - Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date()
159 where we failed to release i_sem on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode.
160 - Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
161 - Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e.
162 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(),
163 and write_mft_record_nolock(). From now on we require that the
164 complete runlist for the mft mirror is always mapped into memory.
165 - Add creation of buffers to fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
166 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block().
167 - Cleanup fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page() since we know that a
168 resident attribute will be smaller than a page which makes the code
169 simpler. Also make the code more tolerant to concurrent ->truncate.
170
1712.1.21 - Fix some races and bugs, rewrite mft write code, add mft allocator.
172
173 - Implement extent mft record deallocation
174 fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_extent_mft_record_free().
175 - Splitt runlist related functions off from attrib.[hc] to runlist.[hc].
176 - Add vol->mft_data_pos and initialize it at mount time.
177 - Rename init_runlist() to ntfs_init_runlist(), ntfs_vcn_to_lcn() to
178 ntfs_rl_vcn_to_lcn(), decompress_mapping_pairs() to
179 ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(), ntfs_merge_runlists() to
180 ntfs_runlists_merge() and adapt all callers.
181 - Add fs/ntfs/runlist.[hc]::ntfs_get_nr_significant_bytes(),
182 ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs(), ntfs_write_significant_bytes(),
183 and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build(), adapted from libntfs.
184 - Make fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() not
185 static and add a declaration for it to lcnalloc.h.
186 - Add fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.h::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl() which is a static
187 inline wrapper for ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() which takes the
188 cluster bitmap lock for the duration of the call.
189 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_record_resize().
190 - Implement the equivalent of memset() for an ntfs attribute in
191 fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_set() and switch
192 fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_empty_logfile() to using it.
193 - Remove unnecessary casts from LCN_* constants.
194 - Implement fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock().
195 - Add MFT_RECORD_OLD as a copy of MFT_RECORD in fs/ntfs/layout.h and
196 change MFT_RECORD to contain the NTFS 3.1+ specific fields.
197 - Add a helper function fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which
198 marks all buffers belonging to an ntfs record dirty, followed by
199 marking the page the ntfs record is in dirty and also marking the vfs
200 inode containing the ntfs record dirty (I_DIRTY_PAGES).
201 - Switch fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to using the
202 new helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and remove the no
203 longer needed fs/ntfs/index.[hc]::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty().
204 - Move ntfs_{un,}map_page() from ntfs.h to aops.h and fix resulting
205 include errors.
206 - Move the typedefs for runlist_element and runlist from types.h to
207 runlist.h and fix resulting include errors.
208 - Remove unused {__,}format_mft_record() from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
209 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::__mark_mft_record_dirty() to use the helper
210 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which also changes the behaviour in that we
211 now set the buffers belonging to the mft record dirty as well as the
212 page itself.
213 - Update fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and sync_mft_mirror()
214 to cope with the fact that there now are dirty buffers in mft pages.
215 - Update fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode() to also use the helper
216 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and thus to set the buffers belonging to the
217 mft record dirty as well as the page itself.
218 - Fix compiler warnings on x86-64 in fs/ntfs/dir.c. (Randy Dunlap,
219 slightly modified by me)
220 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record() which fails with -EALREADY if
221 the mft record is already locked and otherwise behaves the same way
222 as fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_mft_record().
223 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() so that it only
224 writes the mft record if the buffers belonging to it are dirty.
225 Otherwise we assume that it was written out by other means already.
226 - Attempting to write outside initialized size is _not_ a bug so remove
227 the bug check from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(). It is in
228 fact required to write outside initialized size when preparing to
229 extend the initialized size.
230 - Map the page instead of using page_address() before writing to it in
231 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mft_writepage().
232 - Provide exclusion between opening an inode / mapping an mft record
233 and accessing the mft record in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage()
234 by setting the page not uptodate throughout ntfs_mft_writepage().
235 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block()
236 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
237 - Add the helper fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_may_write_mft_record() which
238 checks if an mft record may be written out safely obtaining any
239 necessary locks in the process. This is used by
240 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block().
241 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to also work for
242 writing mft records and improve its error handling in the process.
243 Now if any of the records in the page fail to be written out, all
244 other records will be written out instead of aborting completely.
245 - Remove ntfs_mft_aops and update all users to use ntfs_mst_aops.
246 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to set the
247 ntfs_mst_aops for all inodes which are NInoMstProtected() and
248 ntfs_aops for all other inodes.
249 - Rename fs/ntfs/mft.c::sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() to
250 ntfs_sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() and change their parameters so they
251 no longer require an ntfs inode to be present. Update all callers.
252 - Cleanup the error handling in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
253 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror()
254 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
255 - Remove the no longer needed fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() and
256 fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record().
257 - Fix callers of fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to call it
258 with the ntfs inode which contains the page rather than the ntfs
259 inode the mft record of which is in the page.
260 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by moving the
261 index inode bitmap inode release code from there to
262 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_clear_big_inode(). (Thanks to Christoph
263 Hellwig for spotting this.)
264 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by taking the
265 inode semaphore around the code that sets ni->itype.index.bmp_ino to
266 NULL and reorganize the code to optimize it a bit. (Thanks to
267 Christoph Hellwig for spotting this.)
268 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to no longer take the
269 ntfs inode as a parameter as this is confusing and misleading and the
270 needed ntfs inode is available via NTFS_I(page->mapping->host).
271 Adapt all callers to this change.
272 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and
273 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to only check the dirty state
274 of the first buffer in a record and to take this as the ntfs record
275 dirty state. We cannot look at the dirty state for subsequent
276 buffers because we might be racing with
277 fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty().
278 - Move the static inline ntfs_init_big_inode() from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
279 inode.h and make fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_init_inode() non-static and
280 add a declaration for it to inode.h. Fix some compilation issues
281 that resulted due to #includes and header file interdependencies.
282 - Simplify setup of i_mode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode().
283 - Add helpers fs/ntfs/layout.h::MK_MREF() and MK_LE_MREF().
284 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() to only verify the mft
285 record sequence number if it is specified (i.e. not zero).
286 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_alloc() and various helper
287 functions used by it.
288 - Update Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt with instructions on how to
289 use the Device-Mapper driver with NTFS ftdisk/LDM raid. This removes
290 the linear raid problem with the Software RAID / MD driver when one
291 or more of the devices has an odd number of sectors.
292
2932.1.20 - Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release.
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295 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx()
296 where we did not clear ctx->al_entry but it was still set due to
297 changes in ntfs_attr_lookup() and ntfs_external_attr_find() in
298 particular.
299 - Fix another stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find()
300 where we forgot to unmap the extent mft record when we had finished
301 enumerating an attribute which caused a bug check to trigger when the
302 VFS calls ->clear_inode.
303
3042.1.19 - Many cleanups, improvements, and a minor bug fix.
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306 - Update ->setattr (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) to refuse to
307 change the uid, gid, and mode of an inode as we do not support NTFS
308 ACLs yet.
309 - Remove BKL use from ntfs_setattr() syncing up with the rest of the
310 kernel.
311 - Get rid of the ugly transparent union in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir()
312 and ntfs_filldir() as per suggestion from Al Viro.
313 - Change '\0' and L'\0' to simply 0 as per advice from Linus Torvalds.
314 - Update ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) to check if the
315 inode size has changed and to only output an error if so.
316 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.h::attribute_value_length() to ntfs_attr_size().
317 - Add le{16,32,64} as well as sle{16,32,64} data types to
318 fs/ntfs/types.h.
319 - Change ntfschar to be le16 instead of u16 in fs/ntfs/types.h.
320 - Add le versions of VCN, LCN, and LSN called leVCN, leLCN, and leLSN,
321 respectively, to fs/ntfs/types.h.
322 - Update endianness conversion macros in fs/ntfs/endian.h to use the
323 new types as appropriate.
324 - Do proper type casting when using sle64_to_cpup() in fs/ntfs/dir.c
325 and index.c.
326 - Add leMFT_REF data type to fs/ntfs/layout.h.
327 - Update all NTFS header files with the new little endian data types.
328 Affected files are fs/ntfs/layout.h, logfile.h, and time.h.
329 - Do proper type casting when using ntfs_is_*_recordp() in
330 fs/ntfs/logfile.c, mft.c, and super.c.
331 - Fix all the sparse bitwise warnings. Had to change all the typedef
332 enums storing little endian values to simple enums plus a typedef for
333 the datatype to make sparse happy.
334 - Fix a bug found by the new sparse bitwise warnings where the default
335 upcase table was defined as a pointer to wchar_t rather than ntfschar
336 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h and super.c.
337 - Change {const_,}cpu_to_le{16,32}(0) to just 0 as suggested by Al Viro.
338
3392.1.18 - Fix scheduling latencies at mount time as well as an endianness bug.
340
341 - Remove vol->nr_mft_records as it was pretty meaningless and optimize
342 the calculation of total/free inodes as used by statfs().
343 - Fix scheduling latencies in ntfs_fill_super() by dropping the BKL
344 because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock semaphore which
345 provides safe locking. (Ingo Molnar)
346 - Fix a potential bug in fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() that
347 could occur in the future for when we start closing/freeing extent
348 inodes if we don't set base_ni->ext.extent_ntfs_inos to NULL after
349 we free it.
350 - Rename {find,lookup}_attr() to ntfs_attr_{find,lookup}() as well as
351 find_external_attr() to ntfs_external_attr_find() to cleanup the
352 namespace a bit and to be more consistent with libntfs.
353 - Rename {{re,}init,get,put}_attr_search_ctx() to
354 ntfs_attr_{{re,}init,get,put}_search_ctx() as well as the type
355 attr_search_context to ntfs_attr_search_ctx.
356 - Force use of ntfs_attr_find() in ntfs_attr_lookup() when searching
357 for the attribute list attribute itself.
358 - Fix endianness bug in ntfs_external_attr_find().
359 - Change ntfs_{external_,}attr_find() to return 0 on success, -ENOENT
360 if the attribute is not found, and -EIO on real error. In the case
361 of -ENOENT, the search context is updated to describe the attribute
362 before which the attribute being searched for would need to be
363 inserted if such an action were to be desired and in the case of
364 ntfs_external_attr_find() the search context is also updated to
365 indicate the attribute list entry before which the attribute list
366 entry of the attribute being searched for would need to be inserted
367 if such an action were to be desired. Also make ntfs_find_attr()
368 static and remove its prototype from attrib.h as it is not used
369 anywhere other than attrib.c. Update ntfs_attr_lookup() and all
370 callers of ntfs_{external,}attr_{find,lookup}() for the new return
371 values.
372 - Minor cleanup of fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_init_locked_inode().
373
3742.1.17 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths and other updates.
375
376 - Implement bitmap modification code (fs/ntfs/bitmap.[hc]). This
377 includes functions to set/clear a single bit or a run of bits.
378 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_find_vcn() which returns the locked
379 runlist element containing a particular vcn. It also takes care of
380 mapping any needed runlist fragments.
381 - Implement cluster (de-)allocation code (fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.[hc]).
382 - Load attribute definition table from $AttrDef at mount time.
383 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths involving (de)allocation of
384 the default and volume upcase tables.
385 - Remove ntfs_nr_mounts as it is no longer used.
386
3872.1.16 - Implement access time updates, file sync, async io, and read/writev.
388
389 - Add support for readv/writev and aio_read/aio_write (fs/ntfs/file.c).
390 This is done by setting the appropriate file operations pointers to
391 the generic helper functions provided by mm/filemap.c.
392 - Implement fsync, fdatasync, and msync both for files (fs/ntfs/file.c)
393 and directories (fs/ntfs/dir.c).
394 - Add support for {a,m,c}time updates to inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().
395 Note, except for the root directory and any other system files opened
396 by the user, the system files will not have their access times
397 updated as they are only accessed at the inode level an hence the
398 file level functions which cause the times to be updated are never
399 invoked.
400
4012.1.15 - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
402
403 - Add new element itype.index.collation_rule to the ntfs inode
404 structure and set it appropriately in ntfs_read_locked_inode().
405 - Implement a new inode type "index" to allow efficient access to the
406 indices found in various system files and adapt inode handling
407 accordingly (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]). An index inode is essentially an
408 attribute inode (NInoAttr() is true) with an attribute type of
409 AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION. As such, it is no longer allowed to call
410 ntfs_attr_iget() with an attribute type of AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION as
411 there would be no way to distinguish between normal attribute inodes
412 and index inodes. The function to obtain an index inode is
413 ntfs_index_iget() and it uses the helper function
414 ntfs_read_locked_index_inode(). Note, we do not overload
415 ntfs_attr_iget() as indices consist of multiple attributes so using
416 ntfs_attr_iget() to obtain an index inode would be confusing.
417 - Ensure that there is no overflow when doing page->index <<
418 PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT by casting page->index to s64 in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
419 - Use atomic kmap instead of kmap() in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page()
420 and ntfs_read_block().
421 - Use case sensitive attribute lookups instead of case insensitive ones.
422 - Lock all page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes while
423 accessing them to ensure we never see corrupt data while the page is
424 under writeout.
425 - Add framework for generic ntfs collation (fs/ntfs/collation.[hc]).
426 We have ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported() to check if the collation
427 rule you want to use is supported and ntfs_collation() which actually
428 collates two data items. We currently only support COLLATION_BINARY
429 and COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG but support for other collation rules will
430 be added as the need arises.
431 - Add a new type, ntfs_index_context, to allow retrieval of an index
432 entry using the corresponding index key. To get an index context,
433 use ntfs_index_ctx_get() and to release it, use ntfs_index_ctx_put().
434 This also adds a new slab cache for the index contexts. To lookup a
435 key in an index inode, use ntfs_index_lookup(). After modifying an
436 index entry, call ntfs_index_entry_flush_dcache_page() followed by
437 ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to ensure the changes are written out
438 to disk. For details see fs/ntfs/index.[hc]. Note, at present, if
439 an index entry is in the index allocation attribute rather than the
440 index root attribute it will not be written out (you will get a
441 warning message about discarded changes instead).
442 - Load the quota file ($Quota) and check if quota tracking is enabled
443 and if so, mark the quotas out of date. This causes windows to
444 rescan the volume on boot and update all quota entries.
445 - Add a set_page_dirty address space operation for ntfs_m[fs]t_aops.
446 It is simply set to __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() to make sure that
447 running set_page_dirty() on a page containing mft/ntfs records will
448 not affect the dirty state of the page buffers.
449 - Add fs/ntfs/index.c::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() which sets all
450 buffers that are inside the ntfs record in the page dirty after which
451 it sets the page dirty. This allows ->writepage to only write the
452 dirty index records rather than having to write all the records in
453 the page. Modify fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to
454 use this rather than __set_page_dirty_nobuffers().
455 - Implement fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() which enables the
456 writing of page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes
457 like the index allocation attribute in directory indices and other
458 indices like $Quota/$Q, etc. This means that the quota is now marked
459 out of date on all volumes rather than only on ones where the quota
460 defaults entry is in the index root attribute of the $Quota/$Q index.
461
4622.1.14 - Fix an NFSd caused deadlock reported by several users.
463
464 - Modify fs/ntfs/ntfs_readdir() to copy the index root attribute value
465 to a buffer so that we can put the search context and unmap the mft
466 record before calling the filldir() callback. We need to do this
467 because of NFSd which calls ->lookup() from its filldir callback()
468 and this causes NTFS to deadlock as ntfs_lookup() maps the mft record
469 of the directory and since ntfs_readdir() has got it mapped already
470 ntfs_lookup() deadlocks.
471
4722.1.13 - Enable overwriting of resident files and housekeeping of system files.
473
474 - Implement writing of mft records (fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]), which includes
475 keeping the mft mirror in sync with the mft when mirrored mft records
476 are written. The functions are write_mft_record{,_nolock}(). The
477 implementation is quite rudimentary for now with lots of things not
478 implemented yet but I am not sure any of them can actually occur so
479 I will wait for people to hit each one and only then implement it.
480 - Commit open system inodes at umount time. This should make it
481 virtually impossible for sync_mft_mirror_umount() to ever be needed.
482 - Implement ->write_inode (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode()) for the
483 ntfs super operations. This gives us inode writing via the VFS inode
484 dirty code paths. Note: Access time updates are not implemented yet.
485 - Implement fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::{,__}mark_mft_record_dirty() and make
486 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and ntfs_commit_write() use it, thus
487 finally enabling resident file overwrite! (-8 This also includes a
488 placeholder for ->writepage (ntfs_mft_writepage()), which for now
489 just redirties the page and returns. Also, at umount time, we for
490 now throw away all mft data page cache pages after the last call to
491 ntfs_commit_inode() in the hope that all inodes will have been
492 written out by then and hence no dirty (meta)data will be lost. We
493 also check for this case and emit an error message telling the user
494 to run chkdsk.
495 - Use set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback() in the resident
496 attribute code path of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() otherwise
497 the radix-tree tag PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the
498 page is clean.
499 - Implement ntfs_mft_writepage() so it now checks if any of the mft
500 records in the page are dirty and if so redirties the page and
501 returns. Otherwise it just returns (after doing set_page_writeback(),
502 unlock_page(), end_page_writeback() or the radix-tree tag
503 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the page is clean), thus
504 alowing the VM to do with the page as it pleases. Also, at umount
505 time, now only throw away dirty mft (meta)data pages if dirty inodes
506 are present and ask the user to email us if they see this happening.
507 - Add functions ntfs_{clear,set}_volume_flags(), to modify the volume
508 information flags (fs/ntfs/super.c).
509 - Mark the volume dirty when (re)mounting read-write and mark it clean
510 when unmounting or remounting read-only. If any volume errors are
511 found, the volume is left marked dirty to force chkdsk to run.
512 - Add code to set the NT4 compatibility flag when (re)mounting
513 read-write for newer NTFS versions but leave it commented out for now
514 since we do not make any modifications that are NTFS 1.2 specific yet
515 and since setting this flag breaks Captive-NTFS which is not nice.
516 This code must be enabled once we start writing NTFS 1.2 specific
517 changes otherwise Windows NTFS driver might crash / cause corruption.
518
5192.1.12 - Fix the second fix to the decompression engine and some cleanups.
520
521 - Add a new address space operations struct, ntfs_mst_aops, for mst
522 protected attributes. This is because the default ntfs_aops do not
523 make sense with mst protected data and were they to write anything to
524 such an attribute they would cause data corruption so we provide
525 ntfs_mst_aops which does not have any write related operations set.
526 - Cleanup dirty ntfs inode handling (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]) which also
527 includes an adapted ntfs_commit_inode() and an implementation of
528 ntfs_write_inode() which for now just cleans dirty inodes without
529 writing them (it does emit a warning that this is happening).
530 - Undo the second decompression engine fix (see 2.1.9 release ChangeLog
531 entry) as it was only fixing a theoretical bug but at the same time
532 it badly broke the handling of sparse and uncompressed compression
533 blocks.
534
5352.1.11 - Driver internal cleanups.
536
537 - Only build logfile.o if building the driver with read-write support.
538 - Really final white space cleanups.
539 - Use generic_ffs() instead of ffs() in logfile.c which allows the
540 log_page_size variable to be optimized by gcc into a constant.
541 - Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere as uchar_t is unsigned 1-byte
542 char as defined by POSIX and as found on some systems.
543
5442.1.10 - Force read-only (re)mounting of volumes with unsupported volume flags.
545
546 - Finish off the white space cleanups (remove trailing spaces, etc).
547 - Clean up ntfs_fill_super() and ntfs_read_inode_mount() by removing
548 the kludges around the first iget(). Instead of (re)setting ->s_op
549 we have the $MFT inode set up by explicit new_inode() / set ->i_ino /
550 insert_inode_hash() / call ntfs_read_inode_mount() directly. This
551 kills the need for second super_operations and allows to return error
552 from ntfs_read_inode_mount() without resorting to ugly "poisoning"
553 tricks. (Al Viro)
554 - Force read-only (re)mounting if any of the following bits are set in
555 the volume information flags:
556 VOLUME_IS_DIRTY, VOLUME_RESIZE_LOG_FILE,
557 VOLUME_UPGRADE_ON_MOUNT, VOLUME_DELETE_USN_UNDERWAY,
558 VOLUME_REPAIR_OBJECT_ID, VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK
559 To make this easier we define VOLUME_MUST_MOUNT_RO_MASK with all the
560 above bits set so the test is made easy.
561
5622.1.9 - Fix two bugs in decompression engine.
563
564 - Fix a bug where we would not always detect that we have reached the
565 end of a compression block because we were ending at minus one byte
566 which is effectively the same as being at the end. The fix is to
567 check whether the uncompressed buffer has been fully filled and if so
568 we assume we have reached the end of the compression block. A big
569 thank you to Marcin Gibuła for the bug report, the assistance in
570 tracking down the bug and testing the fix.
571 - Fix a possible bug where when a compressed read is truncated to the
572 end of the file, the offset inside the last page was not truncated.
573
5742.1.8 - Handle $MFT mirror and $LogFile, improve time handling, and cleanups.
575
576 - Use get_bh() instead of manual atomic_inc() in fs/ntfs/compress.c.
577 - Modify fs/ntfs/time.c::ntfs2utc(), get_current_ntfs_time(), and
578 utc2ntfs() to work with struct timespec instead of time_t on the
579 Linux UTC time side thus preserving the full precision of the NTFS
580 time and only loosing up to 99 nano-seconds in the Linux UTC time.
581 - Move fs/ntfs/time.c to fs/ntfs/time.h and make the time functions
582 static inline.
583 - Remove unused ntfs_dirty_inode().
584 - Cleanup super operations declaration in fs/ntfs/super.c.
585 - Wrap flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in #ifdef NTFS_RW.
586 - Add NInoTestSetFoo() and NInoTestClearFoo() macro magic to
587 fs/ntfs/inode.h and use it to declare NInoTest{Set,Clear}Dirty.
588 - Move typedefs for ntfs_attr and test_t from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
589 fs/ntfs/inode.h so they can be used elsewhere.
590 - Determine the mft mirror size as the number of mirrored mft records
591 and store it in ntfs_volume->mftmirr_size (fs/ntfs/super.c).
592 - Load the mft mirror at mount time and compare the mft records stored
593 in it to the ones in the mft. Force a read-only mount if the two do
594 not match (fs/ntfs/super.c).
595 - Fix type casting related warnings on 64-bit architectures. Thanks
596 to Meelis Roos for reporting them.
597 - Move %L to %ll as %L is floating point and %ll is integer which is
598 what we want.
599 - Read the journal ($LogFile) and determine if the volume has been
600 shutdown cleanly and force a read-only mount if not (fs/ntfs/super.c
601 and fs/ntfs/logfile.c). This is a little bit of a crude check in
602 that we only look at the restart areas and not at the actual log
603 records so that there will be a very small number of cases where we
604 think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean. This should
605 only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly and did not
606 have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o.
607 - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a read-write (re)mount
608 is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it with 0xff bytes to
609 ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale
610 journal after Linux has written to the volume.
611
6122.1.7 - Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes.
613
614 - Set i_generation in the VFS inode from the seq_no of the NTFS inode.
615 - Make ntfs_lookup() NFS export safe, i.e. use d_splice_alias(), etc.
616 - Implement ->get_dentry() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_dentry() as the
617 default doesn't allow inode number 0 which is a valid inode on NTFS
618 and even if it did allow that it uses iget() instead of ntfs_iget()
619 which makes it useless for us.
620 - Implement ->get_parent() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_parent() as the
621 default just returns -EACCES which is not very useful.
622 - Define export operations (->s_export_op) for NTFS (ntfs_export_ops)
623 and set them up in the super block at mount time (super.c) this
624 allows mounted NTFS volumes to be exported via NFS.
625 - Add missing return -EOPNOTSUPP; in
626 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write().
627 - Enforce no atime and no dir atime updates at mount/remount time as
628 they are not implemented yet anyway.
629 - Move a few assignments in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::load_attribute_list() to
630 after a NULL check. Thanks to Dave Jones for pointing this out.
631
6322.1.6 - Fix minor bug in handling of compressed directories.
633
634 - Fix bug in handling of compressed directories. A compressed
635 directory is not really compressed so when we set the ->i_blocks
636 field of a compressed directory inode we were setting it from the
637 non-existing field ni->itype.compressed.size which gave random
638 results... For directories we now always use ni->allocated_size.
639
6402.1.5 - Fix minor bug in attribute list attribute handling.
641
642 - Fix bug in attribute list handling. Actually it is not as much a bug
643 as too much protection in that we were not allowing attribute lists
644 which waste space on disk while Windows XP clearly allows it and in
645 fact creates such attribute lists so our driver was failing.
646 - Update NTFS documentation ready for 2.6 kernel release.
647
6482.1.4 - Reduce compiler requirements.
649
650 - Remove all uses of unnamed structs and unions in the driver to make
651 old and newer gcc versions happy. Makes it a bit uglier IMO but at
652 least people will stop hassling me about it.
653
6542.1.3 - Important bug fixes in corner cases.
655
656 - super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Correct the check for 64-bit
657 clusters. (Philipp Thomas)
658 - attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a
659 multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs
660 Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>)
661
6622.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs.
663
664 - Fix buggy free cluster and free inode determination logic.
665
6662.1.1 - Minor updates.
667
668 - Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files.
669 - Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in
670 fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.ord>)
671 - Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc.
672 - Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write()
673 around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write. Adapt NTFS appropriately
674 in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() by using
675 kmap_atomic(KM_USER0).
676
6772.1.0 - First steps towards write support: implement file overwrite.
678
679 - Add configuration option for developmental write support with an
680 appropriately scary configuration help text.
681 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its
682 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block(). This enables mmap(2) based
683 overwriting of existing files on ntfs. Note: Resident files are
684 only written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so
685 avoid writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
686 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_write(), its
687 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() and their
688 counterparts, fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_write(), and
689 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write(), respectively. Also,
690 add generic_file_write() to the ntfs file operations (fs/ntfs/file.c).
691 This enables write(2) based overwriting of existing files on ntfs.
692 Note: As with mmap(2) based overwriting, resident files are only
693 written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so avoid
694 writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
695 - Implement ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) and
696 ->setattr() (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) inode operations for
697 files with the purpose of intercepting and aborting all i_size
698 changes which we do not support yet. ntfs_truncate() actually only
699 emits a warning message but AFAICS our interception of i_size changes
700 elsewhere means ntfs_truncate() never gets called for i_size changes.
701 It is only called from generic_file_write() when we fail in
702 ntfs_prepare_{,nonresident_}write() in order to discard any
703 instantiated buffers beyond i_size. Thus i_size is not actually
704 changed so our warning message is enough. Unfortunately it is not
705 possible to easily determine if i_size is being changed or not hence
706 we just emit an appropriately worded error message.
707
7082.0.25 - Small bug fixes and cleanups.
709
710 - Unlock the page in an out of memory error code path in
711 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
712 - If fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page() is called on an uptodate page,
713 just unlock the page and return. (This can happen due to ->writepage
714 clearing PageUptodate() during write out of MstProtected()
715 attributes.
716 - Remove leaked write code again.
717
7182.0.24 - Cleanups.
719
720 - Treat BUG_ON() as ASSERT() not VERIFY(), i.e. do not use side effects
721 inside BUG_ON(). (Adam J. Richter)
722 - Split logical OR expressions inside BUG_ON() into individual BUG_ON()
723 calls for improved debugging. (Adam J. Richter)
724 - Add errors flag to the ntfs volume state, accessed via
725 NVol{,Set,Clear}Errors(vol).
726 - Do not allow read-write remounts of read-only volumes with errors.
727 - Clarify comment for ntfs file operation sendfile which was added by
728 Christoph Hellwig a while ago (just using generic_file_sendfile())
729 to say that ntfs ->sendfile is only used for the case where the
730 source data is on the ntfs partition and the destination is
731 somewhere else, i.e. nothing we need to concern ourselves with.
732 - Add generic_file_write() as our ntfs file write operation.
733
7342.0.23 - Major bug fixes (races, deadlocks, non-i386 architectures).
735
736 - Massive internal locking changes to mft record locking. Fixes lock
737 recursion and replaces the mrec_lock read/write semaphore with a
738 mutex. Also removes the now superfluous mft_count. This fixes several
739 race conditions and deadlocks, especially in the future write code.
740 - Fix ntfs over loopback for compressed files by adding an
741 optimization barrier. (gcc was screwing up otherwise ?)
742 - Miscellaneous cleanups all over the code and a fix or two in error
743 handling code paths.
744 Thanks go to Christoph Hellwig for pointing out the following two:
745 - Remove now unused function fs/ntfs/malloc.h::vmalloc_nofs().
746 - Fix ntfs_free() for ia64 and parisc by checking for VMALLOC_END, too.
747
7482.0.22 - Cleanups, mainly to ntfs_readdir(), and use C99 initializers.
749
750 - Change fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_reddir() to only read/write ->f_pos once
751 at entry/exit respectively.
752 - Use C99 initializers for structures.
753 - Remove unused variable blocks from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
754
7552.0.21 - Check for, and refuse to work with too large files/directories/volumes.
756
757 - Limit volume size at mount time to 2TiB on architectures where
758 unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector()).
759 This is the most we can do without overflowing the 32-bit limit of
760 the block device size imposed on us by sb_bread() and sb_getblk()
761 for the time being.
762 - Limit file/directory size at open() time to 16TiB on architectures
763 where unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open() and
764 fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_dir_open()). This is the most we can do without
765 overflowing the page cache page index.
766
7672.0.20 - Support non-resident directory index bitmaps, fix page leak in readdir.
768
769 - Move the directory index bitmap to use an attribute inode instead of
770 having special fields for it inside the ntfs inode structure. This
771 means that the index bitmaps now use the page cache for i/o, too,
772 and also as a side effect we get support for non-resident index
773 bitmaps for free.
774 - Simplify/cleanup error handling in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() and
775 fix a page leak that manifested itself in some cases.
776 - Add fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(), which we need to release the
777 index bitmap inode on the final iput().
778
7792.0.19 - Fix race condition, improvements, and optimizations in i/o interface.
780
781 - Apply block optimization added to fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block()
782 to fs/ntfs/compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() as well.
783 - Drop the "file" from ntfs_file_read_compressed_block().
784 - Rename fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_enb_buffer_read_async() to
785 ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() (more like the fs/buffer.c counterpart).
786 - Update ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() with the improved logic from
787 its updated counterpart fs/buffer.c::end_buffer_async_read(). Apply
788 further logic improvements to better determine when we set PageError.
789 - Update submission of buffers in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
790 check for the buffers being uptodate first in line with the updated
791 fs/buffer.c::block_read_full_page(). This plugs a small race
792 condition.
793
7942.0.18 - Fix race condition in reading of compressed files.
795
796 - There was a narrow window between checking a buffer head for being
797 uptodate and locking it in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block(). We now
798 lock the buffer and then check whether it is uptodate or not.
799
8002.0.17 - Cleanups and optimizations - shrinking the ToDo list.
801
802 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to return an error
803 code and update callers, i.e. ntfs_iget(), to pass that error code
804 up instead of just using -EIO.
805 - Modifications to super.c to ensure that both mount and remount
806 cannot set any write related options when the driver is compiled
807 read-only.
808 - Optimize block resolution in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
809 cache the current runlist element. This should improve performance
810 when reading very large and/or very fragmented data.
811
8122.0.16 - Convert access to $MFT/$BITMAP to attribute inode API.
813
814 - Fix a stupid bug introduced in 2.0.15 where we were unmapping the
815 wrong inode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_attr_iget().
816 - Fix debugging check in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
817 - Convert $MFT/$BITMAP access to attribute inode API and remove all
818 remnants of the ugly mftbmp address space and operations hack. This
819 means we finally have only one readpage function as well as only one
820 async io completion handler. Yey! The mft bitmap is now just an
821 attribute inode and is accessed from vol->mftbmp_ino just as if it
822 were a normal file. Fake inodes rule. (-:
823
8242.0.15 - Fake inodes based attribute i/o via the pagecache, fixes and cleanups.
825
826 - Fix silly bug in fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_options() which was causing
827 remounts to fail when the partition had an entry in /etc/fstab and
828 the entry specified the nls= option.
829 - Apply same macro magic used in fs/ntfs/inode.h to fs/ntfs/volume.h to
830 expand all the helper functions NVolFoo(), NVolSetFoo(), and
831 NVolClearFoo().
832 - Move copyright statement from driver initialisation message to
833 module description (fs/super.c). This makes the initialisation
834 message fit on one line and fits in better with rest of kernel.
835 - Update fs/ntfs/attrib.c::map_run_list() to work on both real and
836 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
837 - Implement fake attribute inodes allowing all attribute i/o to go via
838 the page cache and to use all the normal vfs/mm functionality:
839 - Add ntfs_attr_iget() and its helper ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode()
840 to fs/ntfs/inode.c.
841 - Add needed cleanup code to ntfs_clear_big_inode().
842 - Merge address space operations for files and directories (aops.c),
843 now just have ntfs_aops:
844 - Rename:
845 end_buffer_read_attr_async() -> ntfs_end_buffer_read_async(),
846 ntfs_attr_read_block() -> ntfs_read_block(),
847 ntfs_file_read_page() -> ntfs_readpage().
848 - Rewrite fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_readpage() to work on both real and
849 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
850 - Remove obsolete fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage().
851
8522.0.14 - Run list merging code cleanup, minor locking changes, typo fixes.
853
854 - Change fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() to not rely on BKL by moving
855 the locking out of super.c::get_nr_free_mft_records() and taking and
856 dropping the mftbmp_lock rw_semaphore in ntfs_statfs() itself.
857 - Bring attribute runlist merging code (fs/ntfs/attrib.c) in sync with
858 current userspace ntfs library code. This means that if a merge
859 fails the original runlists are always left unmodified instead of
860 being silently corrupted.
861 - Misc typo fixes.
862
8632.0.13 - Use iget5_locked() in preparation for fake inodes and small cleanups.
864
865 - Remove nr_mft_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_mft_records
866 from ntfs_volume structure.
867 - Remove nr_lcn_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_clusters
868 from ntfs_volume structure.
869 - Use iget5_locked() and friends instead of conventional iget(). Wrap
870 the call in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_iget() and update callers of iget()
871 to use ntfs_iget(). Leave only one iget() call at mount time so we
872 don't need an ntfs_iget_mount().
873 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_new_extent_inode() to take mft_no as an
874 additional argument.
875
8762.0.12 - Initial cleanup of address space operations following 2.0.11 changes.
877
878 - Merge fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_mst_async() and
879 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_file_async() into one function
880 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_attr_async() using NInoMstProtected()
881 to determine whether to apply mst fixups or not.
882 - Above change allows merging fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_file_read_block()
883 and fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() into one function
884 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_attr_read_block(). Also, create a tiny wrapper
885 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() to transform the parameters from
886 the VFS readpage function prototype to the ntfs_attr_read_block()
887 function prototype.
888
8892.0.11 - Initial preparations for fake inode based attribute i/o.
890
891 - Move definition of ntfs_inode_state_bits to fs/ntfs/inode.h and
892 do some macro magic (adapted from include/linux/buffer_head.h) to
893 expand all the helper functions NInoFoo(), NInoSetFoo(), and
894 NInoClearFoo().
895 - Add new flag to ntfs_inode_state_bits: NI_Sparse.
896 - Add new fields to ntfs_inode structure to allow use of fake inodes
897 for attribute i/o: type, name, name_len. Also add new state bits:
898 NI_Attr, which, if set, indicates the inode is a fake inode, and
899 NI_MstProtected, which, if set, indicates the attribute uses multi
900 sector transfer protection, i.e. fixups need to be applied after
901 reads and before/after writes.
902 - Rename fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_inode() to
903 ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_extent_inode() and update callers.
904 - Use ntfs_clear_extent_inode() in fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_clear_inode()
905 instead of ntfs_destroy_extent_inode().
906 - Cleanup memory deallocations in {__,}ntfs_clear_{,big_}inode().
907 - Make all operations on ntfs inode state bits use the NIno* functions.
908 - Set up the new ntfs inode fields and state bits in
909 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_inode() and add appropriate cleanup of
910 allocated memory to __ntfs_clear_inode().
911 - Cleanup ntfs_inode structure a bit for better ordering of elements
912 w.r.t. their size to allow better packing of the structure in memory.
913
9142.0.10 - There can only be 2^32 - 1 inodes on an NTFS volume.
915
916 - Add check at mount time to verify that the number of inodes on the
917 volume does not exceed 2^32 - 1, which is the maximum allowed for
918 NTFS according to Microsoft.
919 - Change mft_no member of ntfs_inode structure to be unsigned long.
920 Update all users. This makes ntfs_inode->mft_no just a copy of struct
921 inode->i_ino. But we can't just always use struct inode->i_ino and
922 remove mft_no because extent inodes do not have an attached struct
923 inode.
924
9252.0.9 - Decompression engine now uses a single buffer and other cleanups.
926
927 - Change decompression engine to use a single buffer protected by a
928 spin lock instead of per-CPU buffers. (Rusty Russell)
929 - Do not update cb_pos when handling a partial final page during
930 decompression of a sparse compression block, as the value is later
931 reset without being read/used. (Rusty Russell)
932 - Switch to using the new KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ for atomic kmap()s. (Andrew
933 Morton)
934 - Change buffer size in ntfs_readdir()/ntfs_filldir() to use
935 NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE which makes the buffers almost 1kiB each but
936 it also makes everything safer so it is a good thing.
937 - Miscellaneous minor cleanups to comments.
938
9392.0.8 - Major updates for handling of case sensitivity and dcache aliasing.
940
941 Big thanks go to Al Viro and other inhabitants of #kernel for investing
942 their time to discuss the case sensitivity and dcache aliasing issues.
943
944 - Remove unused source file fs/ntfs/attraops.c.
945 - Remove show_inodes mount option(s), thus dropping support for
946 displaying of short file names.
947 - Remove deprecated mount option posix.
948 - Restore show_sys_files mount option.
949 - Add new mount option case_sensitive, to determine if the driver
950 treats file names as case sensitive or not. If case sensitive, create
951 file names in the POSIX namespace. Otherwise create file names in the
952 LONG/WIN32 namespace. Note, files remain accessible via their short
953 file name, if it exists.
954 - Remove really dumb logic bug in boot sector recovery code.
955 - Fix dcache aliasing issues wrt short/long file names via changes
956 to fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() and
957 fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup():
958 - Add additional argument to ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() in which we
959 return information about the matching file name if the case is not
960 matching or the match is a short file name. See comments above the
961 function definition for details.
962 - Change ntfs_lookup() to only create dcache entries for the correctly
963 cased file name and only for the WIN32 namespace counterpart of DOS
964 namespace file names. This ensures we have only one dentry per
965 directory and also removes all dcache aliasing issues between short
966 and long file names once we add write support. See comments above
967 function for details.
968 - Fix potential 1 byte overflow in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_ucstonls().
969
9702.0.7 - Minor cleanups and updates for changes in core kernel code.
971
972 - Remove much of the NULL struct element initializers.
973 - Various updates to make compatible with recent kernels.
974 - Remove defines of MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE and include linux/buffer_head.h
975 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h instead.
976 - Remove no longer needed KERNEL_VERSION checks. We are now in the
977 kernel proper so they are no longer needed.
978
9792.0.6 - Major bugfix to make compatible with other kernel changes.
980
981 - Initialize the mftbmp address space properly now that there are more
982 fields in the struct address_space. This was leading to hangs and
983 oopses on umount since 2.5.12 because of changes to other parts of
984 the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space()
985 function...
986 - Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The
987 only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_sem during
988 the call, and i_sem is sufficient protection against changes in the
989 directory inode (including ->i_size).
990 - Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to
991 default_llseek()) as this downs i_sem instead of the BKL which is
992 what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we
993 no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir().
994
9952.0.5 - Major bugfix. Buffer overflow in extent inode handling.
996
997 - No need to set old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as the
998 VFS does so via invocation of deactivate_super() calling
999 fs->fill_super() calling block_kill_super() which does it.
1000 - BKL moved from VFS into dir.c::ntfs_readdir(). (Linus Torvalds)
1001 -> Do we really need it? I don't think so as we have exclusion on
1002 the directory ntfs_inode rw_semaphore mrec_lock. We mmight have to
1003 move the ->f_pos accesses under the mrec_lock though. Check this...
1004 - Fix really, really, really stupid buffer overflow in extent inode
1005 handling in mft.c::map_extent_mft_record().
1006
10072.0.4 - Cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.11.
1008
1009 - Add documentation on how to use the MD driver to be able to use NTFS
1010 stripe and volume sets in Linux and generally cleanup documentation
1011 a bit.
1012 Remove all uses of kdev_t in favour of struct block_device *:
1013 - Change compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() to use
1014 sb_getblk() instead of getblk().
1015 - Change super.c::ntfs_fill_super() to use bdev_hardsect_size() instead
1016 of get_hardsect_size().
1017 - No need to get old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as
1018 fs/super.c::get_sb_bdev() already does this.
1019 - Set bh->b_bdev instead of bh->b_dev throughout aops.c.
1020
10212.0.3 - Small bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements.
1022
1023 - Remove some dead code from mft.c.
1024 - Optimize readpage and read_block functions throughout aops.c so that
1025 only initialized blocks are read. Non-initialized ones have their
1026 buffer head mapped, zeroed, and set up to date, without scheduling
1027 any i/o. Thanks to Al Viro for advice on how to avoid the device i/o.
1028 Thanks go to Andrew Morton for spotting the below:
1029 - Fix buglet in allocate_compression_buffers() error code path.
1030 - Call flush_dcache_page() after modifying page cache page contents in
1031 ntfs_file_readpage().
1032 - Check for existence of page buffers throughout aops.c before calling
1033 create_empty_buffers(). This happens when an I/O error occurs and the
1034 read is retried. (It also happens once writing is implemented so that
1035 needed doing anyway but I had left it for later...)
1036 - Don't BUG_ON() uptodate and/or mapped buffers throughout aops.c in
1037 readpage and read_block functions. Reasoning same as above (i.e. I/O
1038 error retries and future write code paths.)
1039
10402.0.2 - Minor updates and cleanups.
1041
1042 - Cleanup: rename mst.c::__post_read_mst_fixup to post_write_mst_fixup
1043 and cleanup the code a bit, removing the unused size parameter.
1044 - Change default fmask to 0177 and update documentation.
1045 - Change attrib.c::get_attr_search_ctx() to return the search context
1046 directly instead of taking the address of a pointer. A return value
1047 of NULL means the allocation failed. Updated all callers
1048 appropriately.
1049 - Update to 2.5.9 kernel (preserving backwards compatibility) by
1050 replacing all occurences of page->buffers with page_buffers(page).
1051 - Fix minor bugs in runlist merging, also minor cleanup.
1052 - Updates to bootsector layout and mft mirror contents descriptions.
1053 - Small bug fix in error detection in unistr.c and some cleanups.
1054 - Grow name buffer allocations in unistr.c in aligned mutlipled of 64
1055 bytes.
1056
10572.0.1 - Minor updates.
1058
1059 - Make default umask correspond to documentation.
1060 - Improve documentation.
1061 - Set default mode to include execute bit. The {u,f,d}mask can be used
1062 to take it away if desired. This allows binaries to be executed from
1063 a mounted ntfs partition.
1064
10652.0.0 - New version number. Remove TNG from the name. Now in the kernel.
1066
1067 - Add kill_super, just keeping up with the vfs changes in the kernel.
1068 - Repeat some changes from tng-0.0.8 that somehow got lost on the way
1069 from the CVS import into BitKeeper.
1070 - Begin to implement proper handling of allocated_size vs
1071 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size). Done are
1072 mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage(), aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async(),
1073 and attrib.c::load_attribute_list().
1074 - Lock the runlist in attrib.c::load_attribute_list() while using it.
1075 - Fix memory leak in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() and generally
1076 clean up compress.c a little, removing some uncommented/unused debug
1077 code.
1078 - Tidy up dir.c a little bit.
1079 - Don't bother getting the runlist in inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1080 - Merge mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage() and aops.c::ntfs_index_readpage()
1081 creating aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage(), improving the handling of
1082 holes and overflow in the process and implementing the correct
1083 equivalent of ntfs_file_get_block() in ntfs_mst_readpage() itself.
1084 I am aiming for correctness at the moment. Modularisation can come
1085 later.
1086 - Rename aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async() to
1087 end_buffer_read_mst_async() and optimize the overflow checking and
1088 handling.
1089 - Use the host of the mftbmp address space mapping to hold the ntfs
1090 volume. This is needed so the async i/o completion handler can
1091 retrieve a pointer to the volume. Hopefully this will not cause
1092 problems elsewhere in the kernel... Otherwise will need to use a
1093 fake inode.
1094 - Complete implementation of proper handling of allocated_size vs
1095 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size) in whole driver.
1096 Basically aops.c is now completely rewritten.
1097 - Change NTFS driver name to just NTFS and set version number to 2.0.0
1098 to make a clear distinction from the old driver which is still on
1099 version 1.1.22.
1100
1101tng-0.0.8 - 08/03/2002 - Now using BitKeeper, http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/
1102
1103 - Replace bdevname(sb->s_dev) with sb->s_id.
1104 - Remove now superfluous new-line characters in all callers of
1105 ntfs_debug().
1106 - Apply kludge in ntfs_read_inode(), setting i_nlink to 1 for
1107 directories. Without this the "find" utility gets very upset which is
1108 fair enough as Linux/Unix do not support directory hard links.
1109 - Further runlist merging work. (Richard Russon)
1110 - Backwards compatibility for gcc-2.95. (Richard Russon)
1111 - Update to kernel 2.5.5-pre1 and rediff the now tiny patch.
c002f425 1112 - Convert to new filesystem declaration using ->ntfs_get_sb() and
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1113 replacing ntfs_read_super() with ntfs_fill_super().
1114 - Set s_maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to avoid page cache page index
1115 overflow on 32-bit architectures.
1116 - Cleanup upcase loading code to use ntfs_(un)map_page().
1117 - Disable/reenable preemtion in critical sections of compession engine.
1118 - Replace device size determination in ntfs_fill_super() with
1119 sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_size (in bytes) and remove now superfluous
1120 function super.c::get_nr_blocks().
1121 - Implement a mount time option (show_inodes) allowing choice of which
1122 types of inode names readdir() returns and modify ntfs_filldir()
1123 accordingly. There are several parameters to show_inodes:
1124 system: system files
1125 win32: long file names (including POSIX file names) [DEFAULT]
1126 long: same as win32
1127 dos: short file names only (excluding POSIX file names)
1128 short: same as dos
1129 posix: same as both win32 and dos
1130 all: all file names
1131 Note that the options are additive, i.e. specifying:
1132 -o show_inodes=system,show_inodes=win32,show_inodes=dos
1133 is the same as specifying:
1134 -o show_inodes=all
1135 Note that the "posix" and "all" options will show all directory
1136 names, BUT the link count on each directory inode entry is set to 1,
1137 due to Linux not supporting directory hard links. This may well
1138 confuse some userspace applications, since the directory names will
1139 have the same inode numbers. Thus it is NOT advisable to use the
1140 "posix" or "all" options. We provide them only for completeness sake.
1141 - Add copies of allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size to
1142 the ntfs inode structure and set them up in
1143 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). These reflect the unnamed data attribute
1144 for files and the index allocation attribute for directories.
1145 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs inode for
1146 $BITMAP attribute of large directories and set them up in
1147 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1148 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs volume for
1149 $BITMAP attribute of $MFT and set them up in
1150 super.c::load_system_files().
1151 - Parse deprecated ntfs driver options (iocharset, show_sys_files,
1152 posix, and utf8) and tell user what the new options to use are. Note
1153 we still do support them but they will be removed with kernel 2.7.x.
1154 - Change all occurences of integer long long printf formatting to hex
1155 as printk() will not support long long integer format if/when the
1156 div64 patch goes into the kernel.
1157 - Make slab caches have stable names and change the names to what they
1158 were intended to be. These changes are required/made possible by the
1159 new slab cache name handling which removes the length limitation by
1160 requiring the caller of kmem_cache_create() to supply a stable name
1161 which is then referenced but not copied.
1162 - Rename run_list structure to run_list_element and create a new
1163 run_list structure containing a pointer to a run_list_element
1164 structure and a read/write semaphore. Adapt all users of runlists
1165 to new scheme and take and release the lock as needed. This fixes a
1166 nasty race as the run_list changes even when inodes are locked for
1167 reading and even when the inode isn't locked at all, so we really
1168 needed the serialization. We use a semaphore rather than a spinlock
1169 as memory allocations can sleep and doing everything GFP_ATOMIC
1170 would be silly.
1171 - Cleanup read_inode() removing all code checking for lowest_vcn != 0.
1172 This can never happen due to the nature of lookup_attr() and how we
1173 support attribute lists. If it did happen it would imply the inode
1174 being corrupt.
1175 - Check for lowest_vcn != 0 in ntfs_read_inode() and mark the inode as
1176 bad if found.
1177 - Update to 2.5.6-pre2 changes in struct address_space.
1178 - Use parent_ino() when accessing d_parent inode number in dir.c.
1179 - Import Sourceforge CVS repository into BitKeeper repository:
1180 http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-tng-2.5
1181 - Update fs/Makefile, fs/Config.help, fs/Config.in, and
1182 Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for NTFS TNG.
1183 - Create kernel configuration option controlling whether debugging
1184 is enabled or not.
1185 - Add the required export of end_buffer_io_sync() from the patches
1186 directory to the kernel code.
1187 - Update inode.c::ntfs_show_options() with show_inodes mount option.
1188 - Update errors mount option.
1189
1190tng-0.0.7 - 13/02/2002 - The driver is now feature complete for read-only!
1191
1192 - Cleanup mft.c and it's debug/error output in particular. Fix a minor
1193 bug in mapping of extent inodes. Update all the comments to fit all
1194 the recent code changes.
1195 - Modify vcn_to_lcn() to cope with entirely unmapped runlists.
1196 - Cleanups in compress.c, mostly comments and folding help.
1197 - Implement attrib.c::map_run_list() as a generic helper.
1198 - Make compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() use map_run_list()
1199 thus making code shorter and enabling attribute list support.
1200 - Cleanup incorrect use of [su]64 with %L printf format specifier in
1201 all source files. Type casts to [unsigned] long long added to correct
1202 the mismatches (important for architectures which have long long not
1203 being 64 bits).
1204 - Merge async io completion handlers for directory indexes and $MFT
1205 data into one by setting the index_block_size{_bits} of the ntfs
1206 inode for $MFT to the mft_record_size{_bits} of the ntfs_volume.
1207 - Cleanup aops.c, update comments.
1208 - Make ntfs_file_get_block() use map_run_list() so all files now
1209 support attribute lists.
1210 - Make ntfs_dir_readpage() almost verbatim copy of
1211 block_read_full_page() by using ntfs_file_get_block() with only real
1212 difference being the use of our own async io completion handler
1213 rather than the default one, thus reducing the amount of code and
1214 automatically enabling attribute list support for directory indices.
1215 - Fix bug in load_attribute_list() - forgot to call brelse in error
1216 code path.
1217 - Change parameters to find_attr() and lookup_attr(). We no longer
1218 pass in the upcase table and its length. These can be gotten from
1219 ctx->ntfs_ino->vol->upcase{_len}. Update all callers.
1220 - Cleanups in attrib.c.
1221 - Implement merging of runlists, attrib.c::merge_run_lists() and its
1222 helpers. (Richard Russon)
1223 - Attribute lists part 2, attribute extents and multi part runlists:
1224 enable proper support for LCN_RL_NOT_MAPPED and automatic mapping of
1225 further runlist parts via attrib.c::map_run_list().
1226 - Tiny endianness bug fix in decompress_mapping_pairs().
1227
1228tng-0.0.6 - Encrypted directories, bug fixes, cleanups, debugging enhancements.
1229
1230 - Enable encrypted directories. (Their index root is marked encrypted
1231 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1232 encrypted.)
1233 - Fix bug in NInoBmpNonResident() macro. (Cut and paste error.)
1234 - Enable $Extend system directory. Most (if not all) extended system
1235 files do not have unnamed data attributes so ntfs_read_inode() had to
1236 special case them but that is ok, as the special casing recovery
1237 happens inside an error code path so there is zero slow down in the
1238 normal fast path. The special casing is done by introducing a new
1239 function inode.c::ntfs_is_extended_system_file() which checks if any
1240 of the hard links in the inode point to $Extend as being their parent
1241 directory and if they do we assume this is an extended system file.
1242 - Create a sysctl/proc interface to allow {dis,en}abling of debug output
1243 when compiled with -DDEBUG. Default is debug messages to be disabled.
1244 To enable them, one writes a non-zero value to /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
1245 (if /proc is enabled) or uses sysctl(2) to effect the same (if sysctl
1246 interface is enabled). Inspired by old ntfs driver.
1247 - Add debug_msgs insmod/kernel boot parameter to set whether debug
1248 messages are {dis,en}abled. This is useful to enable debug messages
1249 during ntfs initialization and is the only way to activate debugging
1250 when the sysctl interface is not enabled.
1251 - Cleanup debug output in various places.
1252 - Remove all dollar signs ($) from the source (except comments) to
1253 enable compilation on architectures whose gcc compiler does not
1254 support dollar signs in the names of variables/constants. Attribute
1255 types now start with AT_ instead of $ and $I30 is now just I30.
1256 - Cleanup ntfs_lookup() and add consistency check of sequence numbers.
1257 - Load complete runlist for $MFT/$BITMAP during mount and cleanup
1258 access functions. This means we now cope with $MFT/$BITMAP being
1259 spread accross several mft records.
1260 - Disable modification of mft_zone_multiplier on remount. We can always
1261 reenable this later on if we really want to, but we will need to make
1262 sure we readjust the mft_zone size / layout accordingly.
1263
1264tng-0.0.5 - Modernize for 2.5.x and further in line-ing with Al Viro's comments.
1265
1266 - Use sb_set_blocksize() instead of set_blocksize() and verify the
1267 return value.
1268 - Use sb_bread() instead of bread() throughout.
1269 - Add index_vcn_size{_bits} to ntfs_inode structure to store the size
1270 of a directory index block vcn. Apply resulting simplifications in
1271 dir.c everywhere.
1272 - Fix a small bug somewhere (but forgot what it was).
1273 - Change ntfs_{debug,error,warning} to enable gcc to do type checking
1274 on the printf-format parameter list and fix bugs reported by gcc
1275 as a result. (Richard Russon)
1276 - Move inode allocation strategy to Al's new stuff but maintain the
1277 divorce of ntfs_inode from struct inode. To achieve this we have two
1278 separate slab caches, one for big ntfs inodes containing a struct
1279 inode and pure ntfs inodes and at the same time fix some faulty
1280 error code paths in ntfs_read_inode().
1281 - Show mount options in proc (inode.c::ntfs_show_options()).
1282
1283tng-0.0.4 - Big changes, getting in line with Al Viro's comments.
1284
1285 - Modified (un)map_mft_record functions to be common for read and write
1286 case. To specify which is which, added extra parameter at front of
1287 parameter list. Pass either READ or WRITE to this, each has the
1288 obvious meaning.
1289 - General cleanups to allow for easier folding in vi.
1290 - attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() now accepts the old runlist
1291 argument, and invokes attrib.c::merge_run_lists() to merge the old
1292 and the new runlists.
1293 - Removed attrib.c::find_first_attr().
1294 - Implemented loading of attribute list and complete runlist for $MFT.
1295 This means we now cope with $MFT being spread across several mft
1296 records.
1297 - Adapt to 2.5.2-pre9 and the changed create_empty_buffers() syntax.
1298 - Adapt major/minor/kdev_t/[bk]devname stuff to new 2.5.x kernels.
1299 - Make ntfs_volume be allocated via kmalloc() instead of using a slab
1300 cache. There are too little ntfs_volume structures at any one time
1301 to justify a private slab cache.
1302 - Fix bogus kmap() use in async io completion. Now use kmap_atomic().
1303 Use KM_BIO_IRQ on advice from IRC/kernel...
1304 - Use ntfs_map_page() in map_mft_record() and create ->readpage method
1305 for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated
1306 address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also
1307 removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch.
1308 - Fix a bug where kfree() was used insted of ntfs_free().
1309 - Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of
1310 vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers.
1311 - Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode.
1312 - Add mft record number and sequence number to ntfs_inode. Stop using
1313 i_ino and i_generation for in-driver purposes.
1314 - Implement attrib.c::merge_run_lists(). (Richard Russon)
1315 - Remove use of proper inodes by extent inodes. Move i_ino and
1316 i_generation to ntfs_inode to do this. Apply simplifications that
1317 result and remove iget_no_wait(), etc.
1318 - Pass ntfs_inode everywhere in the driver (used to be struct inode).
1319 - Add reference counting in ntfs_inode for the ntfs inode itself and
1320 for the mapped mft record.
1321 - Extend mft record mapping so we can (un)map extent mft records (new
1322 functions (un)map_extent_mft_record), and so mappings are reference
1323 counted and don't have to happen twice if already mapped - just ref
1324 count increases.
1325 - Add -o iocharset as alias to -o nls for backwards compatibility.
1326 - The latest core patch is now tiny. In fact just a single additional
1327 export is necessary over the base kernel.
1328
1329tng-0.0.3 - Cleanups, enhancements, bug fixes.
1330
1331 - Work on attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() to detect base extents
1332 and setup the runlist appropriately using knowledge provided by the
1333 sizes in the base attribute record.
1334 - Balance the get_/put_attr_search_ctx() calls so we don't leak memory
1335 any more.
1336 - Introduce ntfs_malloc_nofs() and ntfs_free() to allocate/free a single
1337 page or use vmalloc depending on the amount of memory requested.
1338 - Cleanup error output. The __FUNCTION__ "(): " is now added
1339 automatically. Introduced a new header file debug.h to support this
1340 and also moved ntfs_debug() function into it.
1341 - Make reading of compressed files more intelligent and especially get
1342 rid of the vmalloc_nofs() from readpage(). This now uses per CPU
1343 buffers (allocated at first mount with cluster size <= 4kiB and
1344 deallocated on last umount with cluster size <= 4kiB), and
1345 asynchronous io for the compressed data using a list of buffer heads.
1346 Er, we use synchronous io as async io only works on whole pages
1347 covered by buffers and not on individual buffer heads...
1348 - Bug fix for reading compressed files with sparse compression blocks.
1349
1350tng-0.0.2 - Now handles larger/fragmented/compressed volumes/files/dirs.
1351
1352 - Fixed handling of directories when cluster size exceeds index block
1353 size.
1354 - Hide DOS only name space directory entries from readdir() but allow
1355 them in lookup(). This should fix the problem that Linux doesn't
1356 support directory hard links, while still allowing access to entries
1357 via their short file name. This also has the benefit of mimicking
1358 what Windows users are used to, so it is the ideal solution.
1359 - Implemented sync_page everywhere so no more hangs in D state when
1360 waiting for a page.
1361 - Stop using bforget() in favour of brelse().
1362 - Stop locking buffers unnecessarily.
1363 - Implemented compressed files (inode->mapping contains uncompressed
1364 data, raw compressed data is currently bread() into a vmalloc()ed
1365 memory buffer).
1366 - Enable compressed directories. (Their index root is marked compressed
1367 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1368 compressed.)
1369 - Use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in the ntfs_error and ntfs_warning
1370 functions. (Thanks to Will Dyson for pointing this out.)
1371 - Moved the ntfs_inode and ntfs_volume (the former ntfs_inode_info and
1372 ntfs_sb_info) out of the common inode and super_block structures and
1373 started using the generic_ip and generic_sbp pointers instead. This
1374 makes ntfs entirely private with respect to the kernel tree.
1375 - Detect compiler version and abort with error message if gcc less than
1376 2.96 is used.
1377 - Fix bug in name comparison function in unistr.c.
1378 - Implement attribute lists part 1, the infrastructure: search contexts
1379 and operations, find_external_attr(), lookup_attr()) and make the
1380 code use the infrastructure.
1381 - Fix stupid buffer overflow bug that became apparent on larger run
1382 list containing attributes.
1383 - Fix bugs in readdir() that became apparent on larger directories.
1384
1385 The driver is now really useful and survives the test
1386 find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
1387 without any error messages on a over 1GiB sized partition with >16k
1388 files on it, including compressed files and directories and many files
1389 and directories with attribute lists.
1390
1391tng-0.0.1 - The first useful version.
1392
1393 - Added ntfs_lookup().
1394 - Added default upcase generation and handling.
1395 - Added compile options to be shown on module init.
1396 - Many bug fixes that were "hidden" before.
1397 - Update to latest kernel.
1398 - Added ntfs_readdir().
1399 - Added file operations for mmap(), read(), open() and llseek(). We just
1400 use the generic ones. The whole point of going through implementing
1401 readpage() methods and where possible get_block() call backs is that
1402 this allows us to make use of the generic high level methods provided
1403 by the kernel.
1404
1405 The driver is now actually useful! Yey. (-: It undoubtedly has got bugs
1406 though and it doesn't implement accesssing compressed files yet. Also,
1407 accessing files with attribute list attributes is not implemented yet
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1409 you to list directories, use stat on directory entries and the file
1410 system, open, read, mmap and llseek around in files. A big mile stone
1411 has been reached!
1412
1413tng-0.0.0 - Initial version tag.
1414
1415 Initial driver implementation. The driver can mount and umount simple
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1417 files). If the mount fails there might be problems in the error handling
1418 code paths, so be warned. Otherwise it seems to be loading the system
1419 files nicely and the mft record read mapping/unmapping seems to be
1420 working nicely, too. Proof of inode metadata in the page cache and non-
1421 resident file unnamed stream data in the page cache concepts is thus
1422 complete.