Tuxera Becomes SD Association Member to Meet the Industry Needs in Data Portability
Tuxera exFAT Fuels the Adoption of SDXC, the Next Generation SD Card Technology

HELSINKI, FINLAND. Tuxera Ltd, the creator of the leading NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux and other operating systems, celebrates the 10th anniversary of SD Association as a full member. After joining SD Association in 2009, Tuxera has been actively contributing to the adoption of SDXC, the next-generation SD memory card standard.

Tuxera CEO Mikko Välimäki explains: “SDXC lifts the 32GB maximum size limit for SD cards and also the 4GB maximum file size limit. These are due to the novel exFAT file system. Tuxera has been working with Microsoft the last six months to offer exFAT for any non-Windows operating system. I am confident that we have now the market leading exFAT implementation and we can give unmatched exFAT support to the first companies adopting SDXC in their host devices.”

Tuxera offers the actual exFAT file system software solution and licenses it to customers and partners while Microsoft offers exFAT patent coverage and specifications. Tuxera also offers technical exFAT integration and support services to any customer on a non-Windows platform.

“In Tuxera, reliability and interoperability come always first. During SD Association’s interoperability sessions, where SDXC host device and card manufacturers meet, we will ensure that Tuxera exFAT is in practice fully compatible with every implementation in the market.” notes Szabolcs Szakacsits, Tuxera CTO, and continues: “In addition, we will not only confirm compliance with the standard, we also innovate on top of it. Tuxera’s portable exFAT implementation already includes all the performance and feature innovations we have made during our market-leading NTFS file system development in the last ten years.”

For further information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

Szabolcs Szakacsits, CTO
Tel. +358-40-823-3360
email: szaka at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera. Tuxera offers NTFS and exFAT file system software that guarantee plug and play Windows interoperability. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS solution has over 10 million installations. Tuxera was the first to implement reliable NTFS read/write support on Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems. Tuxera is also the first to offer exFAT for any system based on extensive collaboration with Microsoft including intellectual property and alliance agreements. Tuxera’s customers include leading software, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design the future of file system interoperability. See more from http://www.tuxera.com/.

About SD Association. The SD Association is a global ecosystem of more than 1,100 technology companies charged with setting interoperable SD standards. The Association encourages the development of consumer electronic, wireless communication, digital imaging and networking products that utilize market-leading SD technology. The SD standard is the number one choice for consumers and has earned nearly 80 percent of the memory card market with its reliable interoperability and its easy-to-use format. Today, mobile phones, Blu-ray players, HDTVs, audio players, automotive multimedia systems, handheld PCs, cameras and camcorders feature SD interoperability.

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

Tuxera Joins Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner Program
Extends Collaboration Across Platforms

HELSINKI, FINLAND. Tuxera Ltd, the creator of the leading NTFS and exFAT file system drivers for Linux and other operating systems, is now a certified member of Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner Program. As part of the program, Tuxera offers its NTFS solution for Windows Emnbedded CE users.

“We are proud to extend our collaboration with Microsoft to include Windows Embedded partnership. The initial feedback has been very positive and we look forward to work together with new customers and partners in the Microsoft’s embedded ecosystem.” said Mikko Välimäki, Tuxera CEO.

Tuxera announced Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE in January in connection with Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Tuxera thus became the first company to offer NTFS for embedded Windows systems. Tuxera’s NTFS technology continues to be the world’s most popular, most reliable, most featureful, and the highest performance NTFS solution available.

Tuxera has developed its market-leading knowledge of Windows file system technology since the late 1990s. Szabolcs Szakacsits, Tuxera CTO and founder, notes: “The latest agreement with Microsoft is a testament to our unbeatable competence in Microsoft file system technology. Our NTFS codebase has already millions of deployments on Linux and other platforms, proving our technological superiority. It has been a pleasure to work with Microsoft again to redefine the industry standard and extend its availability to every platform out there.”

For further information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

Szabolcs Szakacsits, CTO
Tel. +358-40-823-3360
email: szaka at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera. Tuxera offers NTFS and exFAT file system software that guarantee plug and play Windows interoperability. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS solution has over 10 million installations. Tuxera was the first to implement reliable NTFS read/write support on Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems. Tuxera is also the first to offer exFAT for any system based on extensive collaboration with Microsoft including intellectual property and alliance agreements. Tuxera’s customers include leading software, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design the future of file system interoperability. See more from http://www.tuxera.com/

Make you stuff work under, inside, or on top of MeeGo and you get your stuff deployed all over the place. Nokia will ship tons of MeeGo devices, Intel, too

This is good news for companies like us. We are ready to support data portability on any Linux-based mobile device, be it running Android or MeeGo. For example shooting 1080p video into the device’s flash card requires in practice a file system change from FAT32 to exFAT. Our Tuxera exFAT works inside Android and MeeGo to manage that change.

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.

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 decided CES is the right time to go public with our Windows CE work. The most common use case must be Windows CE powered set-top boxes and other consumer electronic devices with a USB plug. If I want to upload my videos and music from a portable NTFS-formatted hard drive into the box, it must read NTFS.

Another relevant market are cars, where Windows CE is gaining momentum. At CES, Microsoft had driven Fiats, Fords and Kias on their booth. Window CE is running the “infotainment” or entertainment systems in these cars. But what if I want plug in the car stereo my portable NTFS-formatted hard drive, which is full of MP3s? Yes, the system should read NTFS.

Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE Announced
Targets Especially In-vehicle Infotainment Systems

LAS VEGAS, UNITED STATES: Microsoft Windows CE has not supported the default Windows file system NTFS so far. The solution is here. Tuxera is the first company to develop an NTFS file system for Windows CE. The new product is offered to consumer electronics and car manufacturers who run Windows CE and need to communicate with Windows PCs or external hard disk drives.

Tuxera CTO Szabolcs Szakacsits comments: “Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE is our answer to the growing demand to support NTFS on embedded Windows systems. The new product is based on our widely deployed open source NTFS-3G driver developed during the last ten years. We are offering essentially the best reliability you can get.”

Tuxera CEO Mikko Välimäki adds: “When we were first asked about NTFS support for Windows CE, I can honestly say we were puzzled. This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas we have become convinced that this was the right decision. There is an actual need, which we can solve today. I am thus happy to announce the market-leading Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE.”

For further information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

Szabolcs Szakacsits, CTO
Tel. +358-40-823-3360
email: szaka at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera. Tuxera offers NTFS and exFAT file system software that guarantee plug and play Windows interoperability. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS solution has over 10 million installations. Tuxera was the first to implement reliable NTFS read/write support on Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems. Tuxera is also the first to offer exFAT for any system based on extensive collaboration with Microsoft including intellectual property and alliance agreements. Tuxera’s customers include leading software, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design the future of file system interoperability. See more from http://www.tuxera.com/

Tuxera Secures More Growth Funding
Accelerates International Expansion Plan

HELSINKI, FINLAND. Tuxera, the leading interoperable file system software provider, is pleased to announce it has secured more growth funding. The company was evaluated by a panel of venture capitalists and private investors who made an unanimous recommendation to grant funding targeted at highly innovative companies on behalf of Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. The Agency already granted Tuxera R&D funding in June 2009.

“We are extremely happy about the positive funding decision that came after a very competitive four-month long process. With the new funding in hand, we can capture new markets and accelerate our international expansion plan. Our goal is to serve customers any size, any place, any time.” notes Mikko Välimäki, Tuxera CEO.

“It is crucial to be a winner in these turbulent economic times. Tuxera is bigger, better, and faster every day. But we cannot stop to celebrate yet. We will continue the hard work to take the leadership in the world file system markets, and related products, with full steam.” adds Szabolcs Szakacsits, Tuxera CTO and founder.

For further information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

Szabolcs Szakacsits, CTO
Tel. +358-40-823-3360
email: szaka at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera. Tuxera offers NTFS and exFAT file system software that guarantee plug and play Windows interoperability. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS solution has over 10 million installations. Tuxera was the first to implement reliable NTFS read/write support on Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems. Tuxera is also the first to offer exFAT for any system based on extensive collaboration with Microsoft including intellectual property and alliance agreements. Tuxera’s customers include leading software, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design the future of file system interoperability. See more from http://www.tuxera.com/

Tuxera Powers Verismo Networks’ VuNow Internet TV Platform
NTFS Quickly Becoming Standard in Next-Generation Set-Top Boxes

HELSINKI, FINLAND: Tuxera Ltd and Verismo Networks Inc have signed a new long term licensing agreement. Tuxera provides Verismo with the high-performance and low-resource use Tuxera NTFS file system technology that empowers Verismo’s VuNow Internet TV platform.

Tuxera CEO Mikko Välimäki notes: “We are currently experiencing an increasing number of set-top box manufacturers replacing FAT32 with NTFS. Next-generation TV platform innovators like Verismo Networks are in the forefront of this change. I am happy to continue our collaboration with a new long-term agreement that brings benefits to both companies.”

“VuNow provides consumers with the broadest possible access to Internet video content directly on the TV,” said Vijay Maheshwari, CTO and Co-Founder of Verismo Networks. “With Tuxera’s interoperable, field-tested file system inside, consumers can easily access the content from their home PCs and USB.”

For further information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera. Tuxera offers NTFS and exFAT file system drivers that guarantee plug and play Windows interoperability. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS driver has over 10 million installations. Tuxera was the first to implement reliable NTFS read/write support on Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems. Tuxera is also the first to offer exFAT for any system based on extensive collaboration with Microsoft including intellectual property and alliance agreements. Tuxera’s customers include leading software, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design the future of file system interoperability. See more from http://www.tuxera.com/.

About Verismo Networks. Verismo Networks is redefining the home television experience by bringing millions of free internet videos around the world directly to your TV — all of this without a computer. Verismo’s VuNow platform transforms the TV set into a powerful multimedia hub with an unbelievable level of choice and ease in accessing digital entertainment. You’ve never seen your television like this before. Verismo Networks is a privately held company based in Mountain View, California, with offices in Bangalore, India. See more from http://www.verismonetworks.com/.

Tuxera Enters TOP 25 European Start-up Companies
Qualifies for Eurecan European Venture Contest Final

HELSINKI, FINLAND: Tuxera Ltd has been selected from over 100 pre-qualified companies into TOP 25 European start-up companies. Tuxera will compete for the 90.000 euros prize at the Final of the Eurecan European Venture Contest Barcelona on 14 and 15 December 2009. Tuxera qualified for the final after winning a start-up competition earlier this month in Turin, Italy.

Tuxera CEO Mikko Välimäki comments: “We are naturally extremely happy about this award. Tuxera is a born global growth company whose headquarters are in Finland by chance. Our main markets are software, semiconductor and consumer electronic manufacturers located in Asia, United States and Europe.”

Tuxera Ltd was founded to commercialize the leading NTFS open source project. NTFS is the main file system in Microsoft Windows. Tuxera CTO Szabolcs Szakacsits has been the project leader since 2006.

Szakacsits explains: “For example every digital camera and set-top-box has a file system that writes picture and video files on a memory card or hard disk drive. Many of these devices are running nowadays Linux. If you want to read the pictures or videos directly from a Windows or Mac computer, the files must have been written with an interoperable file system such as NTFS.”

Tuxera’s major achievements in 2009 include collaboration agreements with Microsoft. Thus, Tuxera is currently the only company providing Windows-interoperable NTFS and exFAT file system drivers to device manufacturers who use Linux or other non-Windows platform.

For further information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

Szabolcs Szakacsits, CTO
Tel. +358-40-823-3360
email: szaka at tuxera dot com

European TOP 25: http://www.e-unlimited.com/events/view.aspx?events_pages_id=463
Blog post after the qualifying event: Tuxera Wins Venture Contest, November 5, 2009

About Tuxera. Tuxera offers NTFS and exFAT file system drivers that guarantee plug and play Windows interoperability. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS driver has over 10 million installations. Tuxera was the first to implement reliable NTFS read/write support on Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems. Tuxera is also the first to offer exFAT for any system based on extensive collaboration with Microsoft including intellectual property and alliance agreements. Tuxera’s customers include leading software, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design the future of file system interoperability. See more from http://www.tuxera.com/

• 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

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.

The Fastest Way to Read and Write Windows Disks from Mac is Here
Tuxera NTFS for Mac Released for Immediate Download

HELSINKI, FINLAND: Mac OS X does not support writing to Microsoft Windows formatted NTFS volumes out-of-the box. The fix is here. Tuxera is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Tuxera NTFS for Mac, the fastest way to read and write Windows formatted disks from a Mac. The software has been successfully tested to work with Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard.

Tuxera NTFS for Mac is the result of years of intense development in the leading open source NTFS project including hundred of thousands of happy Mac users. Tuxera CTO Szabolcs Szakacsits explains: “Tuxera NTFS for Mac is a major upgrade from our previous open source NTFS-3G for Mac. Performance has been significantly improved along with other enhancements. Copying a DVD to an NTFS hard drive takes now just 45 seconds. With open source it took as much as 12 minutes. We are pretty sure this is the fastest read/write NTFS solution you can have for Mac.”

Tuxera CEO Mikko Välimäki adds: “Launching the commercially supported high-perfomance Tuxera NTFS for Mac is an important step for us. We are encouraged by the very positive initial feedback from the vibrant OS X community. Be sure we are not stopping here. Tuxera will make sure its products continue to improve and exceed the highest expectations.”

Tuxera NTFS for Mac can be downloaded from http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/. After installation, Tuxera NTFS becomes visible in your System Preferences. The trial version runs for 15 days after which it must be registered. A license for one user costs 25 euros with volume discount available for enterprise customers. Licenses can be bought with major credit cards from Tuxera’s Online Shop: http://www.tuxera.com/buy/online-shop/

For further information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

Szabolcs Szakacsits, CTO
Tel. +358-40-823-3360
email: szaka at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera. Tuxera offers NTFS and exFAT file system drivers that guarantee plug and play Windows interoperability. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS driver has over 10 million installations. Tuxera was the first to implement reliable NTFS read/write support on Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems. Tuxera is also the first to offer exFAT for any system based on extensive collaboration with Microsoft including intellectual property and alliance agreements. Tuxera’s customers include leading software, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design the future of file system interoperability. See more from http://www.tuxera.com/

Changes since version “1.0-RC”:

• Preference pane internal classes were renamed to avoid a namespace collision with the NTFS-3G preference pane. If you had both NTFS-3G and Tuxera NTFS installed you could experience some strange behaviour in System Preferences.
• Version number scheme changed to year.month[.revision].

Tuxera NTFS for Mac licenses can be purchased from the Tuxera Online Shop. As a customer, you are entitled to free updates. Your product key will continue to function in updated versions of the driver.

We also have a dedicated customer support email address where you can reach us and get help with the product, or get feedback on any problems that you may have.

Technical briefing

We were asked for a technical write-up regarding the changes that have been made to the NTFS driver for Tuxera NTFS for Mac, so I’m going to make an attempt to describe what we have done.

The most important issue that we identified when studying how to build a commercial grade product from the existing NTFS-3G for Mac OS X product was that performance still wasn’t optimal. This has been a problem for NTFS-3G from day one, caused by inefficient kernel/userspace interfaces to the raw disk devices provided by the Mac OS X kernel. Even after applying relevant patches to supply a caching layer between the disk device and the file system driver, we never fully reached the performance level that we would have desired.

Also, the existing caching layer (originally from the FreeBSD port of NTFS-3G) introduced a new problem: written data could stay in memory for long periods of time without being flushed to disk. This means that if the Mac would run out of battery, encounter a system crash, or if someone would disconnect an external drive without unmounting it first, then the latest changes to the data on the NTFS drive would not have reached the disk. The result in this situation is that people would lose the latest data that was written to the NTFS volume. Volume inconsistencies needing to be fixed with ‘chkdsk’ in Windows would also be very likely.

Essentially with NTFS-3G, people were forced to choose between better performance (caching on) and keeping the data safe in the event of a system crash (caching off).

We eventually decided to write a new caching layer from scratch, partially to be able to experiment with performance and to squeeze the best performance out of the disk, but also to be able to incorporate smart cache flushing to ensure that data doesn’t stay in memory longer than it absolutely needs to.

This proved to be very successful. With the new caching layer we have in many cases recorded performance comparable to and in some cases even better than the built in HFS+ driver.

Additional improvements have been made. Some examples:

• Implemented support for the Mac OS X “Locked’ and “Hidden” features for files, mapped to their NTFS equivalents (readonly, hidden). This can be used to make files immutable by “locking” them, just like on HFS+ volumes.
• Adaptive file ownership: The files on an NTFS volume always appear to be owned by the user currently accessing it.
• Support for putting files in the ‘Trash’ bin (in NTFS-3G, you could only delete them directly).
• Some bug fixes that will eventually appear in NTFS-3G as well, for instance: Firefox wouldn’t save files on an NTFS volume, International (non-ASCII) volume names led to an error when mounting…

We have also reconstructed the preference pane, added help content, and in many other ways made sure to iron out the small quirks and irregularities encountered in NTFS-3G, to make sure that we deliver a polished, tested and well-functioning product for the commercial market.