User extended attributes should only be set on files and directories,
not on symlinks, sockets, devices, etc. For safety they are also
forbidden on metadata files, but should be allowed on the root
directory. For files based on reparse points, requests are made
to the plugin to determine the type.
Some constraints put on reparse points of unknown type (e.g. they cannot
be deleted) are not acceptable to archivers. This patch removes some
constraints.
Windows applies legacy restrictions to file names, so when the option
windows_names is applied, reject the same reserved names, which are
CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1..COM9, and LPT1..LPT9
- Replaced 'ntfschar*' parameters with 'const ntfschar*' where
appropriate (the function does not need to modify the string).
- Replaced some instances of 'u8*' and 'char*' read-only buffer
arguments with 'const u8*' and 'const char*'.
As the path passed to ntfs-3g for getxattr(2)/setxattr(2) are not
guaranteed to be the one mentioned by the caller when there are hard links,
getting/setting DOS names have to be discontinued in that situation.
Getting/setting DOS names is still possible when there is a single
non-DOS name.
The type of special files (symlinks, fifos, etc.) was not returned in
readdir() and they appeared wrongly in the field d_type of "struct dirent".
This prevented some applications which relied on d_type (which does
not exist in Solaris) from navigating in an NTFS tree.
When the hide_dot_files option is set, a file is marked hidden if the
first character in its name is a dot. This patch updates the hidden flag
when the file is renamed or hard linked (useful for text editors which
create files with a temporary name)
When a file is deleted, there is no need to remove its last name in
the deleted MFT record. The name may be useful for undeleting the file
later (Windows also does not delete the name).
When the cluster size is bigger than the index block size, the index
block size unit is 512 (not the sector size) instead of the cluster size.
The partitions formatted by mkntfs and used by ntfs-3g were not
interoperable with Windows when the cluster size is bigger than 4K
and the sector size is not 512.
