Monthly Archive for November, 2009

Release: NTFS-3G 2009.11.14

Szabolcs Szakacsits
on November 15, 2009
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We are happy to announce the next stable NTFS-3G release. It is based on the latest Advanced NTFS-3G release which is already used by several distributions as the default NTFS driver. The changes include:

  • New: Full file ownership and permissions support. The ownership and permissions of files are interoperable with Windows and conforms to the POSIX rules.
  • New: POSIX ACL support. The ACLs are an extension to ownership and permissions as defined in POSIX.
  • New: Optional Windows-type inheritance of ACLs.
  • New: Full extended attributes support for all namespaces: user, system, security and trusted.
  • New: Junction points support. The junction points and symbolic links created by Windows are seen as symbolic links.
  • New: Access is possible to NTFS internal data like Windows style archive bit and file attributes. They are mapped to extended attributes for easier access.
  • New: Compression write support: sequential writing to compressed files is supported.
  • New: Support copying and restoring encrypted files without decrypting them.
  • New: Support getting and setting high-resolution file timestamps.
  • New: Support to get, set and remove DOS filenames.
  • New: Tools for managing ownership, permissions and ACLs: secaudit checks the integrity of ownership, permissions and ACL, usermap gives help to configure ownership.
  • New: Implemented setchgtime() on Mac OS X.
  • Fix: Improved Windows junction and symlink handling.
  • Fix: Improved ACL handling.
  • Fix: Unicode normalization on Mac OS X.
  • Fix: Implemented true fsync() on Mac OS X
  • Change: Performance optimizations. Frequently used data are cached to improve speed. Space allocation for fragmented and sparse files has been improved.

We are also very glad to announce the new NTFS-3G lead developer, Jean-Pierre Andre who consistently demonstrated outstanding problem solving skills, taking great attention to the details and the ability to ensure the high-quality and reliability of the NTFS-3G driver in the past years.

The source code of the latest stable driver is available at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team

Tuxera Wins Venture Contest

Mikko Välimäki
on November 6, 2009
in tuxera
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I was presenting today in Turin, Italy, at Europe Unlimited’s venture contest before an international investor and expert panel. At the end of the day I was thrilled to see Tuxera was awarded as the event winner! We are thus among the top 100 companies selected from different events around the Europe during the fall…

During the day I had interesting talks with investors and other entrepreneurs. One of the most positive and energetic persons was undoubtedly Rick Salmon who runs Xelerator out from Oslo, Norway. He answered to those who said you should start from local markets that when a company finds the right focus the market is and must be global. Cannot agree more. Tuxera’s market has been global from day 1.

Update 27.11. Here is a short video clip of the award ceremony and my interview after the event.

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