We are happy to announce the next stable release of NTFS-3G and ntfsprogs.

The source code is available at

git clone git://ntfs-3g.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g

The package contains the following improvements, changes and fixes:

• ntfs-3g: fixed device path canonicalization for use by devmapper
• ntfs-3g: fixed setting DOS names when defined with lower-case chars
• ntfs-3g: fixed attribute flags controlling recursive writes
• ntfs-3g: fixed compilation on OpenIndiana
• ntfs-3g: fixed options parsing on OSes with no extended attributes
• ntfs-3g: fixed relatime as a default mount option
• ntfs-3g: fixed endless recursion when MFT extents are described by themselves
• ntfs-3g: fixed the description of inherit option
• ntfs-3g: fixed overwriting a truncated file
• ntfs-3g: fixed truncation of DOS file names (12 ntfschars, not 12 utf8 chars)
• ntfs-3g: fixed the setting of attributes by secaudit (index not synced)
• ntfs-3g: faster compression
• ntfs-3g: new option delay_mtime to delay updates of mtime+ctime
• ntfsfix: new option -d to clear the dirty flag if fix is successful
• ntfsfix: fixed volume dirty flag test
• ntfsfix: new option to clear the list of bad sectors
• ntfsfix: fixed compilation on Sparc
• ntfsfix: fixed a bug causing a segmentation violation
• ntfsfix: repair self-located MFT data bug
• ntfscp: fix free space calculation
• ntfscp: support compression
• ntfsresize: implemented expanding runlists
• ntfsresize: updated the description of the -f option
• ntfsresize: expand an NTFS volume downwards
• ntfsclone: backup bootsector not be to accounted for
• ntfsclone: creating/restoring a metadata image
• ntfsundelete: try to recover the file name when undeleting
• ntfsundelete: use inode number to name unnamed files
• ntfswipe: Big endian and other fixes
• secaudit: prefixed owner and group SID in ACL display
• library: fixed big cluster support using 4kB sector disk
• library: fixed huge data writes
• library: use transparent compression by default
• library: fixed several bad returns in error conditions
• library: enabled getting the sector size on FreeBSD and MacOSX
• build: fixed “make libs” to only build libraries

The stable release is available at

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

Many thanks to Jean-Pierre Andre, Erik Larsson and many other contributors!

Tuxera Open Source Team

Dramatically Increases Private Cloud Write Speed

Sunnyvale, CALIFORNIA <January 11, 2012>. Tuxera, the leading provider of interoperable file systems for Android, Linux, Mac and other platforms, today announced NETGEAR® has selected Tuxera’s file system technology to power its Marvell-based ReadyNAS® family of network attached storage (NAS) devices for the Small- to Medium-sized Business (SMB) market. Tuxera’s market leading file system technology increases NAS write speeds without compromising interoperability, functionality and scalability.

“We selected Tuxera because their file system technology allows us to achieve significantly faster results than before acceleration.” notes Matt Pahnke, Sr Product Marketing Manager at NETGEAR. “With the help of Tuxera, NETGEAR’s ReadyNAS Duo v2 and NV+ v2 products feature significantly faster back-up times and seamless user experience with portable storages.”

A typical NAS system runs off-the-shelf Linux software stack with standard open source file systems. As the well-recognized open source file system leader, Tuxera has partnered with NAS chipset manufacturers to integrate and optimize its proprietary and enhanced commercial file system technology into the devices. Tuxera’s comprehensive NAS offering for OEMs includes high-performance, chipset-optimized Tuxera XFS for the main storage and Tuxera NTFS and HFS+ file systems for external, portable storages.

“Tuxera’s mission is to serve advanced storage system manufacturers on the path to private clouds by making the world’s network storage centerpieces more responsive, scalable and portable.” noted Mikko Välimäki, Tuxera CEO. “NETGEAR is among the first whom we are proudly shipping the latest file system technology to ramp up the device performance multiple times over the previous generation.”

Tuxera Storage & Routers

http://www.tuxera.com/markets/storage/

For more information, please contact:

Tuxera Inc.
Viet-Anh Le
Viet-anh@tuxera.com
Marketing Manager
+358-40-088-5099

About Tuxera. Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Android, Linux, Mac OS X and other platforms have tens of millions installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more information, please visit http://www.tuxera.com/.

NETGEAR and ReadyNAS are registered trademarks of NETGEAR, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

About NETGEAR, Inc. NETGEAR (NASDAQGM:NTGR) is a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers. For consumers, the company makes high performance, dependable and easy to use home networking, storage and digital media products to connect people with the Internet and their content and devices. For businesses, NETGEAR provides networking, storage and security solutions without the cost and complexity of big IT. The company also supplies top service providers with retail proven, whole home solutions for their customers. NETGEAR products are built on a variety of proven technologies such as wireless, Ethernet and Powerline, with a focus on reliability and ease-of-use. NETGEAR products are sold in approximately 28,000 retail locations around the globe, and through more than 37,000 value-added resellers. The company’s headquarters are in San Jose, Calif., with additional offices in 25 countries. NETGEAR is an ENERGY STAR® partner. More information is available at http://www.NETGEAR.com or by calling (408) 907-8000. Connect with NETGEAR at http://twitter.com/NETGEAR and http://www.facebook.com/NETGEAR.

Apple® today announced that in just one day, over one million users bought and downloaded Mac OS® X Lion, the eighth major release of the world’s most advanced operating system… users are buying Lion faster than any other OS release in Apple’s history.

Now that’s just huge!

While the popularity of Mac is skyrocketing to new records, we’re also seeing more and more people using multiple operating systems and not just one. Windows is not disappearing any time soon and remains the number one choice in many homes and workplaces alike. This means that Macs also need full, rock solid Windows interoperability. Many of those new to Mac bring with them Microsoft Windows formatted hard drives and may continue to use Windows still on the side. And the chances are high that as a Mac user you will need to exchange large amounts of data with friends and colleagues who stay on Windows.

This is where Tuxera NTFS for Mac comes to help. With complete support to OS X Lion, Tuxera NTFS for Mac adds full read and write compatibility with all Windows-formatted drives.

We are very proud to have been flooded by positive feedback on how Tuxera NTFS for Mac is working now smoothly on Mac OS X Lion. Thank you to every one of you!

For those of you who haven’t yet upgraded your system, we urge you to download and install the latest stable version 2011.4.1 which was released already on June 20th.

Last but not least I’d like to remind that once you buy a Tuxera NTFS for Mac license you will get future releases free of charge.

The new release contains numerous enhancements. Here are some of the highlights:

• Automatic translation of filenames that would be invalid in Windows into a compatible form, leading to less problems when copying files to NTFS volumes (can be turned off in preferences).
• Improved responsiveness when using multiple simultaneous NTFS volumes on 64-bit kernels.
• The ability to turn off native storage of extended attributes, introduced in version 2010.7 (to improve compatibility with NTFS-3G and older versions of Mac OS X’s internal NTFS driver).
• Bugfix for formatting hard disks with 4 KiB sector size. The previous version produced NTFS volumes that could not be used successfully in Windows.
• Bugfixes/tuning of native extended attribute handling. Some applications (e.g. Adobe Photoshop) could misbehave with the previous stable version.
• Bugfix for saving files from Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Bugfix for free disk space handling. The amount of free disk space being displayed in Finder was not kept up-to-date in some situations.

Updates are free for all existing customers, so we urge everyone to update to the latest version.

We are happy to announce the stable, merged release of ntfsprogs and NTFS-3G.

The merged codebase will help to avoid duplicated maintenance of the large, complex NTFS codebase, so development can focus on enhanced unctionality,
reliability, and interoperability in the future.

Several alternatives have been considered how to organize the code (library, tools, driver). The preferred solution is the simplest way which is one large package, like Samba. So, there will be need to install only one NTFS package (ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs), not two (ntfsprogs, ntfs-3g).

The code and status is available at

git clone git://ntfs-3g.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs

The new package is a compatible, drop-in replacement for both ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs.

The package contains the following improvements, changes and fixes:

• ntfs-3g: fixed possible wrong hole size when overwriting compressed data.
• ntfs-3g: fixed listxattr() to environments with extended attributes.
• ntfs-3g: fixed ENOSPC when making an index non-resident.
• ntfs-3g: fixed partial mapping ahead of mapped runlist.
• ntfs-3g: enabled forensic mounting (currently same as read-only).
• ntfs-3g: expand an attribute without creating a hole.
• ntfs-3g: improved appending data to a long hole.
• ntfs-3g: deny direct modifications to metadata files.
• ntfs-3g: option ‘acl’ to request the use of Posix ACLs.
• ntfsclone: fixed reading old big-endian ntfsclone images.
• ntfsclone: avoided writing beyond allocated variable.
• ntfsclone: close volume and cleanup when exiting.
• ntfsclone: new option not to clear the timestamps.
• ntfsclone: sync created image before remounting.
• ntfsclone: use a stream to produce aligned writes during image creation.
• ntfsinfo: display times in UTC.
• mkntfs: don’t store full bitmap and logfile in memory.
• mkntfs: set a volume UUID if option -U.
• mkntfs: fixed $MFT allocated size.
• mkntfs: fixed allocated size of resident unnamed data.
• ntfsfix: new option -n for no action.
• ntfsfix: try alternate boot sector if cannot start up.
• ntfsfix: check and fix the upcase table.
• ntfsfix: try to fix file systems with incorrect size.
• ntfsundelete: fixed a segfault.
• ntfsresize: new option –info-mb-only.
• ntfsresize: new option –check.

The release candidate is available at

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

Many thanks to Jean-Pierre Andre and Erik Larsson to make this happen!

Tuxera Open Source Team

The new stable NTFS-3G release contains the following improvements, changes and fixes:

• New: implemented fsync() and fsyncdir().
• New: implemented the ‘sync’ mount option.
• New: sanity check upcase table.
• New: added a big-endian extended attribute name for attrib and times.
• New: added an extended attribute name for creation time.
• New: enable renaming of system extended attributes.
• Change: improved appending data to fragmented files.
• Change: improved rebuilding a runlist.
• Change: improved comparing filename on big-endian CPUs.
• Fixed stat(2) for system files with no data.
• Fixed alignment on cached structures.
• Fixed Posix ACLs for big-endian CPUs.
• Fixed deleting files using ignore_case option.
• Fixed allocated size when an attribute update causes unnamed data to be expelled.

The latest release of the software is available at http://www.tuxera.com/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team

HELSINKI, FINLAND – October 27, 2010 – Tuxera, the leading provider of interoperable file systems for Android, Linux, Mac and other platforms, today announced Tuxera File System Suite, the industry’s most comprehensive interoperability package consisting of Tuxera NTFS, exFAT and HFS+ file systems as well as Tuxera’s most popular storage management tools. With the announcement, Tuxera added HFS+ file system into its product line already consisting of Tuxera NTFS and exFAT solutions. Tuxera thus became the first and only vendor to offer all three of the most popular modern interoperable file systems replacing the aging FAT32 in a turnkey solution.

Tuxera File System Suite has been developed together with Tuxera’s customers to address the needs for high-performance Windows and Mac interoperability in Android and Linux-based consumer electronics. Tuxera’s market-leading file system solutions power set-top boxes, multimedia devices, routers, NAS products, automotive infotainment systems, mobile phones and tablets from the leading brands. Tuxera works together with chipset companies to provide better time to market, up-to-date performance metrics, and dedicated customer support. Tuxera File System Suite components have been successfully integrated and tested on the most popular chipsets delivering outstanding read and write speeds. For example Tuxera’s NTFS solution with Tuxera’s patent-pending performance optimization technology now outpaces the most popular Android and Linux file systems as well as any alternative NTFS solutions in the markets today.

“We have seen the convergence of interoperable file system solutions,” noted Szabolcs Szakacsits, Tuxera CTO. “For many applications there is not just one right interoperability solution but there can be need to support several file systems at the same time. NTFS is still the most popular overall solution over USB and SATA but Apple’s rising market share has increased the demand for reliable HFS+. Further, the ever-expanding uses of SD card interfaces call for exFAT. We have successfully established Tuxera exFAT as the natural first choice in the markets with strong support from Microsoft.”

Tuxera CEO Mikko Välimäki continues: “We are pleased to launch the industry’s first and most comprehensive file system interoperability package. Working closely together with operating system manufacturers, chipset vendors, and the increasing customer base Tuxera File System Suite delivers the best possible reliability and the industry’s fastest performance.”

Tuxera File System Suite combines Tuxera NTFS, exFAT, HFS+ and Storage Management Tools including format and repair into one cost-effective package. Users can pick the right file system with Tuxera’s expert service and support more easily than before and get to the markets faster.

Tuxera File System Suite is now available for Android and Linux deployments. Please contact sales@tuxera.com for more information.

For more information, please contact:

Mikko Välimäki
CEO, Tuxera Inc.
+358 (0)50 598 0498 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              +358 (0)50 598 0498      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

About Tuxera. Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. With Tuxera file systems inside, users experience plug and play interoperability with their laptops, digital cameras, set-top-boxes, mobile phones and other consumer electronics. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux, Android, Mac OS X and other platforms have over 30 million installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more information, please visit www.tuxera.com.

HELSINKI, FINLAND – October 11, 2010 – Tuxera Inc., the leading provider of Windows-compatible file systems for Linux, Android, Mac and other platforms, today announced the release of a major new version of its popular Tuxera NTFS for Mac loaded with full 64-bit support, extended attributes, and other improvements. Apple’s latest Mac Pro computers, released in mid-August, are the first to have Snow Leopard operating system installed in 64-bit kernel mode. Tuxera follows Apple’s direction with the revamped NTFS file system application that is guaranteed to work with future Macs.

Tuxera NTFS for Mac allows Apple Macintosh users to read and write in Windows-format, safely and quickly. The software has become extremely popular among consumers who migrate from Windows to Mac, and wish to fully use their Windows-formatted hard drives and memory sticks with the new system. Designers running Mac use the software to prepare customer deliveries. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is also widely used in media production companies and universities with heterogeneous computing environments that include both Windows and Mac computers. The software is compatible with popular virtualization and encryption solutions including Parallels Desktop®, VMware Fusion® and TrueCrypt.

“This is a major upgrade for Tuxera NTFS for Mac. We have worked hard to rebuild ‘under the hood’ functionality to be fully compatible with 64-bit and are pleased with the performance throughput,” stated Mikko Välimäki, Tuxera CEO. “There are also several other improvements ranging from a simpler installation process to new features only available from Tuxera such as full support for extended attributes. We remain fully committed to providing Mac users the best-of-class file system compatibility to the Windows world.”

Apple has introduced 64-bit kernel mode in Snow Leopard. 64-bit support speeds up the operating system and removes barriers for maximum physical memory. Tuxera NTFS for Mac now joins other system applications that can take full advantage of the future of high-performance computing.

The new Tuxera NTFS for Mac version 2010.10 can be downloaded from http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/. An update is free-of-charge to previously registered customers.

For more information, please contact:

Mikko Välimäki
CEO, Tuxera Inc.
+358 (0)50 598 0498

Apple: 64-bit.

About Tuxera. Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. With Tuxera file systems inside, users experience plug and play interoperability with their laptops, digital cameras, set-top-boxes, mobile phones and other consumer electronics. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux, Android, Mac OS X and other platforms have over 30 million installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more information, please visit www.tuxera.com.

HELSINKI, FINLAND – October 5, 2010 – Tuxera, the leading provider of Windows-compatible file systems for Linux, Android, Mac and other platforms, today announced that Appareo Systems has licensed Tuxera NTFS to bring seamless interoperability to its Vision 1000 system. Tuxera’s embedded file system solution will allow the Vision 1000, a cockpit imaging and flight data monitoring (FDM) device wrapped into one, to read/write data efficiently for the aviation industry. The result of a joint development between Appareo Systems and Eurocopter, the Vision 1000 gives any operator the ability to benefit from a comprehensive FDM program.

“Tuxera’s file systems offer great reliability – something required in the aviation industry,” said Appareo Systems embedded systems director Robert Weinmann. “The Vision 1000 system captures critical inertial and position data, cockpit imagery and audio. Tuxera helps to make this happen.”

“Appareo’s market is the aviation industry where it is essential to capture data both effectively and efficiently,” stated Tuxera CEO Mikko Välimäki. “We’re happy to see that Tuxera file system solutions will help pilots, aircraft operators and the aviation industry on the whole meet their demanding requirements for flight data monitoring and recording.”

In addition to the Vision 1000, Tuxera NTFS will be also included in Appareo Systems’ next generation Flight Data Monitoring tool, the GAU 3000, a modular device that offers options for collecting aircraft data through a number of interfaces including its own inertial suite, ARINC 429 inputs and other modules.

For more information:

Mikko Välimäki
CEO, Tuxera Inc.
+358-50-598-0498

John Pedersen
Appareo Systems, LLC
(701) 356-2200

About Tuxera. Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. With Tuxera file systems inside, users experience plug and play interoperability with their laptops, digital cameras, set-top-boxes, mobile phones and other consumer electronics. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux, Android, Mac OS X and other platforms have over 30 million installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more information, please visit www.tuxera.com.

About Appareo Systems. Appareo Systems is a recognized leader in the custom development and manufacture of low-cost innovative avionic solutions for original equipment manufacturers. Through the creative application of cutting-edge technologies, the company creates complex end-to-end solutions that include both airborne and ground station components. Appareo offers turn-key services form product conceptualization through attainment of STC. In addition, the company is an accredited FAA Parts Manufacturing facility.

Appareo’s ALERTS system for flight data capture and analysis was named the 2007 Product Breakthrough of the Year by Aviation Week & Space Technology and recognized by the American Helicopter Association with the 2008 Harry T. Jensen award for outstanding contribution to helicopter safety and reliability. Appareo Systems is based in Fargo, ND. For more information, please visit www.appareo.com.

The new stable NTFS-3G release contains the following minor bug fixes:

• Fixed filename encoding when standard functions are not available.
• Fixed checking mounted device status on some non-Linux platforms.
• Fixed mounting with SELinux context.
• Fixed -n and –no-mtab mount option handling, needed by automount.
• Improved consistency checks of POSIX ACLs.
• NTFS-3G manual update.

The latest release of the software is available at http://www.tuxera.com/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team

Sunnyvale, Calif. – September, 29 2010 – Tuxera Inc., the leading provider of Windows-compatible file systems for Linux, Android, Mac and other platforms, today announced close collaboration with PLX Technology, the industry’s leading consumer storage controller provider for network attached storage (NAS) devices. Tuxera and PLX are working together to ensure that the Tuxera® File System Suite, which includes Tuxera NTFS, exFAT and HFS+, are fully optimized for high-speed storage designs using PLX® NAS solutions.

Tuxera’s file systems greatly simplify how device manufacturers can achieve higher performance, lower power, and read/write interoperability by interacting directly with the Linux kernel as a standard plug-in kernel module. The Tuxera File System Suite package combines expert service and support with its industry-leading interoperable file system solutions.

“Achieving the highest levels of performance and interoperability is instrumental in PLX product development, and Tuxera’s File System Suite helped us to achieve these goals,” said David Raun, vice president of marketing and business development at PLX. “We are pleased to collaborate with Tuxera to ensure its technology, working in tandem with our NAS products, delivers best-in-class performance across multiple file systems and applications.”

“For Tuxera, this PLX partnership is an endorsement of Tuxera’s file system suite in high-performance storage applications,” said Mikko Välimäki, Tuxera CEO. “It also builds a strong tie with Tuxera and the well-known PLX storage family. Tuxera is fully committed to increasing its leadership in embedded markets, and this partnership marks an important milestone.”

There are many applications for high-performance interoperable file systems for embedded use. For example, Tuxera NTFS and HFS+ solutions efficiently transform Linux-based network-attached storage devices and set-top boxes, allowing them to seamlessly interoperate with Windows and Mac computers and deliver top of the line performance. Fast read and write performance with ever-increasing file sizes is crucial for the best possible consumer experience. Previously, interoperability in most cases has been achieved through the use of the low-performance and energy-consumptive FAT32 file system.

The Tuxera File System Suite, including Tuxera NTFS, HFS+ and exFAT, is now available to PLX customers. Please contact sales@tuxera.com for more information.

For information on PLX Technology consumer-storage controllers, go to www.plxtech.com/products/consumer.

About Tuxera
Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. With Tuxera file systems inside, users experience plug and play interoperability with their laptops, digital cameras, set-top-boxes, mobile phones and other consumer electronics. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux, Android, Mac OS X and other platforms have over 30 million installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more information, please visit www.tuxera.com.

About PLX
PLX Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLXT), based in Sunnyvale, Calif., USA, is an industry-leading global provider of semiconductor based connectivity solutions primarily targeting the enterprise and consumer markets. The Company develops innovative software-enriched silicon that enables product differentiation, reliable interoperability and superior performance. www.plxtech.com.

Tuxera Contact:
Mikko Välimäki
408-335-7366

PLX Editorial Contact:
Jerry Steach
CommonGround Communications (for PLX)
415-222-9996

The new release candidate integrates the shared component MacFUSE closer into the driver to simplify installation and adds support for Mac users running the fully 64-bit Snow Leopard kernel (the ‘X86_64′ kernel flavor). This means that the newest Mac Pros (mid-2010) will be able to use Tuxera NTFS for Mac without switching to the 32/64-bit hybrid kernel which is the default on all other consumer Macs.

Along with these changes there have been numerous other improvements, for instance:

• Driver now runs in 64-bit mode on Intel 64-bit and PowerPC G5 processors (only Mac OS X 10.5 and later).
• Bugfix for extended attribute handling which caused file copying problems in some cases.
• Disabled the ‘archive’ flag for directories because of conflict with Finder.
• Fixed incompatibility with TrueCrypt volumes.
• Driver codebase synchronized with NTFS-3G 2010.8.8 (see: NTFS-3G release history for a list of changes).

Feedback from users running the 64-bit kernel is most appreciated. Please post your experiences in the forum, or send an email to our dedicated support email address if you’re a customer. Thank you.

The new, stable NTFS-3G release contains the following major functionality improvements, changes and bug 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.
• Fixed partially overwriting sparse clusters on highly fragmented volumes.
• Fixed checking write errors in setxattr().
• Fixed processing end of partial runlist for compressed files.
• Fixed updating file compressed sizes.
• Fixed checking the device mount state.
• Fixed processing of options silent and no_def_opts.
• Fixed excessive cluster allocation within big holes.
• Fixed creating empty encrypted extended attributes.
• Fixed too permissive sanity check before compressing.
• Fixed error returns when writing compressed data.
• Fixed sanity checked when closing a compressed file.
• Fixed zeroing the end of an ex-hole cluster of compressed files.
• Improved sanity checks on security descriptors.

The latest release of the software is available at http://www.tuxera.com/

Enjoy!

Tuxera Open Source Team

This new version brings some important features for Tuxera’s commercial NTFS software for Mac OS X. Most importantly, extended attributes are now fully enabled and mapped to Alternate Data Streams if you are running Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.

Extended attributes is a way of appending more than one data stream to a file, and this mechanism is used in Mac OS X for various things such as Finder information, the legacy “resource forks”, quarantine flags and much more.

In previous versions of Tuxera NTFS for Mac, extended attributes were supported but only using a compatibility mechanism storing them inside files starting with ‘._’ (called AppleDouble files), just like it is done with FAT32 file systems. This means that all files that had extended attributes applied to them also had a supplementary file created in the same directory holding those attributes. This does not happen any more. Instead, extended attributes are stored as Alternate Data Streams in NTFS, and can be accessed from within Windows using standard methods. The extended attributes are fully compatible with Mac OS X’s own NTFS driver and Windows Server’s “Services for Macintosh” extension (now discontinued).

Along with these changes there have been numerous other fixes, for instance:

• Fix for a rare issue where Tuxera NTFS for Mac could ‘hijack’ the mounting of certain unformatted media.
• Storing the Mac OS X backup timestamp is now supported.
• Preference pane is partly rewritten to be more robust and to leave no zombie processes behind.

Also, Tuxera NTFS for Mac has been synchronized with NTFS-3G so that all features and fixes as of NTFS-3G 2010.5.22 are included in the new release of Tuxera NTFS for Mac (see release history).

Tip: To convert your existing extended attributes, stored in ‘._’ files, to the newer storage method there is a command line utility called ‘dot_clean‘ that is relatively easy to use. It is present in Mac OS X 10.5 and later. This is an example of how to use it:

dot_clean /Volumes/NTFSVolume

You must replace ‘/Volumes/NTFSVolume’ with the path to your NTFS volume. This command will scan through an entire hierarchy of directories for ‘._’ files and merge their content into proper extended attributes. For more information about dot_clean, please read the manpage (‘man dot_clean‘).

On the left you have two USB ports and on the right a removable hard drive bay circled. You can plug any NTFS-formatted portable hard drive or USB stick full of high-definition movies into the USB ports and it is plug & play. The same goes for the hard drive bay: take your NTFS-formatted drive from your Windows box and it works seamlessly with the Syabas media tank without any additional drivers.

We think Syabas’ example shows where the market is going. With both disk and file sizes growing, NTFS is currently the best — and in increasing cases the only — format option if you want your storage media to work plug & play with all computers from PCs to Macs and Linuxes as well as the latest consumer electronic devices.

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

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

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

Until Tuxera, the 4Gb file size limitation made it impossible to copy files over 4Gb to a FAT32 formatted drive, and NTFS formatted drives could only be read on Macs, writing to them was not possible. … that could be a real deal breaker for many editors on Macs. Tuxera changes all that, and creates a seamless method for delivering files on hard drives to your PC-based clients.

Earlier also MacObserver picked Tuxera as the NTFS solution for Mac.

As a final note, Softpedia gave us “100% CLEAN” award

Note: This release contains an important bugfix for the issue described in KB974729. All users are urged to update as soon as possible.

Changes since 2009.10:

• A fix for the issue described in KB974729, in which NTFS drives were rendered unmountable in Windows Vista and Windows 7 in rare cases after being used extensively with Tuxera NTFS for Mac or NTFS-3G. After this update, Tuxera NTFS for Mac will no longer trigger this condition.
  To fix existing drives, please install the hotfix provided by Microsoft and follow instructions.
  If you have been affected by this issue and need assistance, don’t hesitate to contact our premium support email address (see your activation email).
• Performance improvements: Tuxera NTFS for Mac now includes many of the improvements featured in Tuxera NTFS for Embedded systems, designed to further increase performance and reduce unnecessary driver workload, especially when working with many smaller files and traversing large directory hierarchies.
  For example, when crawling a test volume recursively, 2010.1 was nearly 40% faster than 2009.10 in our tests.
• Performance improvements: The caching layer has been improved with more efficient lookup, which means less CPU overhead, and measures have been taken to minimize the amount of excess data that is read when accessing files in a random fashion.
• Feature: Tuxera NTFS for Mac now includes a new preference pane option “Disable recovery dialog for hibernated volumes”, which makes the driver ignore NTFS volumes that contain a hibernated Windows session instead of showing a dialog asking the user whether it wants to purge the hibernated state or abort mounting.
• Bugfix: Fix for some users of Snow Leopard who had problems with formatting NTFS volumes (Tuxera NTFS was not displayed as a formatting option at all times).
• Fix: General usability improvements in the installer and preference pane.
• Fix: Minor fixes to improve compatibility with the built-in NTFS driver.
• Experimental: Tuxera NTFS for Mac now attempts to mount Windows LDM partitions by default. This will not work at all times, but one user did benefit from this change.