Greetings,
This time Tuxera has record number of software releases! The topics:
- Stable NTFS-3G 2010.5.22
- NTFS-3G 2010.6.31-RC Release Candidate
- NTFS-3G for Mac 2010.5.22
- Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2010.6-RC Release Candidate
The stable NTFS-3G 2010.5.22 release is a minor update which addresses creating the missing usermap and secaudit utilities.
The software is available at
http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
The new NTFS-3G 2010.6.31-RC release candidate contains exciting, major improvements, and the below changes and fixes:
- New: Full, transparent, read-write compression support.
- New: Two new mount options: compression and nocompression (default).
- New: Introduced windows_names mount option to enforce only Windows names.
- Change: Re-enabled compression in root directory.
- Change: Reversed default for showing/hiding hidden files.
- Change: Redefined default user mapping.
- Change: Marked files whose name has a dot initial as “hidden” if option hide_dot_files is used.
- Change: Renamed option default_permissions to permissions.
- Fixed use of utimensat() with external fuse older than 2.8.
- Fixed a hang when reading a corrupt compressed file.
- Fixed a possible crash when creating a stream.
- Fixed all reported and found compressed write related bugs.
Download it from the below web page
http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
The long awaited NTFS-3G for Mac 2010.5.22 is also here. Changes since the last release:
- Everything which is included in stable NTFS-3G 2010.5.22.
- Fix: NTFS-3G for Mac could “hijack” non-NTFS volumes in extremely rare cases, leaving them unmountable until NTFS-3g for Mac was disabled.
- Fix: The NTFS-3G for Mac preference pane will no longer leave zombie processes behind.
For more information please see
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2010/06/ntfs-3g-for-mac-os-x-2010522.html
The latest release candidate of Tuxera NTFS for Mac, our high-performance commercial NTFS driver is out as well.
Changes since Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2010.1:
- Extended attribute support. Tuxera NTFS for Mac now supports storing Mac streams such as Finder information and resource forks as extended attributes, translating to Alternate Data Streams in Windows terminology. This means that NTFS drives will no longer be littered with ‘._’ (AppleDouble) files. Services For Mac attributes are used for the special attributes ‘com.apple.FinderInfo’ and ‘com.apple.ResourceFork’.
- Support for storing the Mac OS backup timestamp.
- All new features, enhancements and fixes included in stable NTFS-3G for Mac 2010.5.22.
Please see more at
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/
Enjoy!
Tuxera Open Source Team
Greetings,
The new, stable NTFS-3G release contains the following changes:
- Fixed a compilation issue with uClibc.
- Fixed modifying the read-only flag on a directory.
- Fixed a bug in ACL inheritance.
- Fixed a bad condition for security descriptor upgrade.
- Fixed a possible index block with no key in $SII.
- Fixed the condition for executing utime() and utimensat().
- Fixed wrong flags when uid/gid are forced in mount options.
- Fixed a bad error checking when closing a compressed file.
- Fixed compiler warnings on OpenSolaris.
- Fixed conditional code for self-test in secaudit.
The software is available at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
Enjoy!
Tuxera Open Source Team
Greetings,
The new, stable NTFS-3G release contains bug fixes and functionality improvements:
- New: support Object Identifiers which are used by Windows for shortcuts and caused CHKDSK warnings when the target was deleted.
- New: nanosecond resolution file timestamps support.
- New: selective file timestamp modification by utimensat(2).
- New: make non-resident TXF_DATA attribute of root directory resident so Vista and later won’t complain about RAW partition.
- New: caching inodes.
- New: more efficient UTF8/UTF16 translations.
- Fixed setting archive bit on file and alternated data stream creation.
- Fixed setting reparse tags in parent directories.
- Fixed enabling permissions when no UserMapping file is found.
- Fixed an error return code in the main mount function.
- Fixed setting timestamp via extended attributes to be consistent between Windows and Linux view.
- Fixed option processing when uid, gid, fmask or dmask are present.
The software is available at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
Enjoy!
Tuxera Open Source Team
Happy New Year 2010 To All Tuxera Users!
The first open source NTFS-3G stable release of the year contains only important bug fixes:
- Fix: Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 couldn’t access a volume, file or directory if it had a non-resident TXF_DATA attribute despite being allowed by the NTFS $AttrDef attribute specification file. This scenario is very rare and hard to reproduce. Currently we have 1900 downloads a day and received only very a few such problem reports. Solution is also available from Microsoft. Please see more information at KB974729. Upgrade is recommended!
- Fix: NTFS-3G may crashed if a junction point referred to a non-ASCII file.
- Fix: Compilation errors on Mac OS X, OpenSolaris and openSUSE.
The source code of the latest stable driver is available at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
Many thanks to Microsoft, Jean-Pierre Andre, Erik Larsson, Anton Altaparmakov, Dominique Leuenberger, John G. Ireland, Virial, Elby, and Fuzzf.
Tuxera Open Source Team
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
A new stable NTFS-3G release candidate is available for testing. 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.
- 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 happy to announce the new NTFS-3G lead developer, Jean-Pierre Andre.
The source code of the latest stable driver is available at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
Enjoy!