libfuse/NEWS
Miklos Szeredi fcf9f8d616 revert stuff
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What is new in 2.4
- Simplify device opening. Now '/dev/fuse' is a requirement
- Allow module auto-loading if user has access to '/dev/fuse'
- Allow mounting over a regular file for unprivileged users
- Allow mounting of arbitrary FUSE filesystems from /etc/fstab
- New mount options: 'umask=M', 'uid=N', 'gid=N'
- Check for non-empty mountpoint, and refuse mount by default. New
mount option: 'nonempty'
- Low level (inode based) API added
- Allow 'direct_io' and 'keep_cache' options to be set on a
case-by-case basis on open.
- Add 'attr_timeout' and 'entry_timeout' mount options to the
high-level library. Until now these timeouts were fixed at 1 sec.
- Some bugfixes
What is new in 2.3
- Add new directory related operations: opendir(), readdir(),
releasedir() and fsyncdir()
- Add init() and destroy() operations which are called before the
event loop is started and after it has exited
- Update kernel ABI so that on dual architectures (e.g. AMD64) 32bit
binaries work under a 64bit kernel
- Bugfixes
What is new in 2.2
Userspace changes:
- Add fuse_file_info structure to file operations, this allows the
filesystem to return a file handle in open() which is passed to
read(), write(), flush(), fsync() and release().
- Add source compatibility with 2.1 and 1.4 releases
- Binary compatibility with 2.1 release is retained
Kernel changes:
- Make requests interruptible. This prevents the filesystem to go
into an unbreakable deadlock with itself.
- Make readpages() synchronous. Asynchronous requests are deadlock
prone, since they cannot be interrupted (see above)
- Remove shared-writeable mapping support, which could deadlock the
machine
- Remove INVALIDATE userspace initiated request
- Update ABI to be independent of sizeof(long), so dual-size archs
don't cause problems
- Remove /sys/fs/fuse/version. Version checking is now done through
the fuse device
- Replace directory reading method on the kernel interface. Instead
of passing an open file descriptor to the kernel, send data through
the FUSE device, like all other operations.
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What is new in 2.1
* Bug fixes
* Improved support for filesystems implementing a custom event-loop
* Add 'pkg-config' support
* Kernel module can be compiled separately
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What is new in 1.9
* Lots of bugs fixed
* Minor modifications to the library API
* Improvements to the kernel/userspace interface
* Mounting by non-root made more secure
* Build shared library in addition to the static one
* Consolidated mount options
* Optimized reading under 2.6 kernels
* Direct I/O support
* Support file I/O on deleted files
* Extended attributes support
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What is new in 1.3
* Thanks to user bugreports and stress testing with LTP and sfx-linux
a number of bugs were fixed, some quite serious.
* Fix compile problems with recent SuSE kernles
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What is new in 1.2
* Fix mount problems on recent 2.6 kernels with SELinux enabled
* Fixed writing files lager than 2GBytes
* Other bugfixes
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What is new in 1.1
* Support for the 2.6 kernels
* Support for exporting filesystem over NFS in 2.6 kernels
* Read efficiency improvements: read in 64k blocks instead of 4k
(Michael Grigoriev). Can be turned on with '-l' option of fusermount
* Lazy automatic unmount
* Added 'fsync()' VFS call to the FUSE interface
* Bugfixes
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What is new in 1.0
* Cleanups and bugfixes
* Added 'release()' VFS call to the FUSE interface
* 64 bit file offsets (handling of > 4 GByte files)
* libfuse is now under LGPL
* New 'statfs' call (Mark Glines)
* Cleaned up mount procedure (mostly by Mark Glines)
NOTE: Binaries linked with with a previous version of libavfs may
not work with the new version of the fusermount program. In such
case recompile the program after installing the new libavfs library.
* Fix for problems under linux kernel 2.4.19
============================================================================
What is new in 0.95
* Optimized read/write operations. Raw throughput has increased to
about 60Mbyte/s on a Celeron/360
* Python bindings by Jeff Epler
* Perl bindings by Mark Glines
* Improved multithreaded operation
* Simplified library interface
* Bugfixes
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What is new in 0.9:
* Everything