From Windows 10 Creators edition, the cluster size limit has been
extended to 2MB. This has implied redefining the boot sector field
"sectors_per_cluster" so that values greater than 128 can be recorded.
In an NTFS boot sector, the first sector of the partition is limited to
32 bits and it may overflow on large disks. This field is only used for
booting on the partition and it is ignored by ntfs-3g, but the warning
in mkntfs mislead users, so improve it.
- mkntfs: As announced, remove the deprecated support for creation of
NTFS 1.2/3.0 volumes. We now create NTFS 3.1 volumes only. (Anton)
- mkntfs: Remove lots of unused/unneeded debugging code. (Anton)
and include --with-uuid[=PFX] and --without-uuid options. (Anton)
- configure.ac: Set language to C. (Anton)
- mkntfs: Always set default cluster size to 4096 bytes regardless of
volume size. This is what Windows Vista does and it makes perfect
sense from a performance point of view. (Anton)
- Compiler warning fixes for gnome-vfs and fuse modules. (Anton)
- Change volume mounting (actually device opening) to happen with
O_EXCL bit set so at least on Linux no one can change the device
block size under our feet. (Anton)
- Change volume mounting and mkntfs to set the device block size to the
sector size using BLKBSZSET ioctl (Linux only). This should be
optimal for performance and should fixes the bug of not being able to
create the backup boot sector if the number of sectors on the device
is odd, the sector size is 512 bytes, and the kernel is 2.4. (Anton)
- Enforce cluster size, mft record size, and index record size to be at
least equal to the sector size and verify they are still valid and in
particular display a warning message if the volume will not be
mountable by the kernel driver (it requires mft record size and index
record size to be below or equal to the system page size which we
determine using sysconf()). (Anton)
specify the number of heads manually.
- Provide a new command line option "-S" to mkntfs to allow the user to
specify the number of sectors per track manually.
(Logical change 1.345)
