Greetings,
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
Szabolcs Szakacsits
Szaka is CTO and President of Tuxera. He's been developing for file systems since the 1990s and is well-known for driving the open source NTFS-3G project.