When the new option --unused-fast is used, clusters which appear as wiped
are not written again. This is useful for avoiding virtual partitions to
be extended to their full size.
Contributed by michael
This patch changes the algorithm to use hash chains instead of binary
trees, with much stronger hashing. It also introduces useful (for
performance) parameters, such as the "nice match length" and "maximum
search depth", that are similar to those used in other commonly used
compression algorithms such as zlib's DEFLATE implementation.
The speed improvement is very significant, with some loss of compression
rate. The compression rate is still better than then Windows one.
Contributed by Eric Biggers
The new way goes via /sys/dev/block/MAJOR:MINOR to map partitions to
devices and get discard parameters of the parent device. It also ensures
that the partition is aligned to the discard block size.
Contributed by Richard W.M. Jones
fstrim(8) discards unused blocks on a mounted filesystem. It is useful for
solid-state drives (SSDs) and thinly-provisioned storage.
Only trimming the full device (with no option) is supported.
Contributed by Richard W.M. Jones
This is backporting code from the full FUSE library in order to support
ioctls. The fuse protocol level negociated is now 7.18 instead of 7.8.
A fallback protocol to 7.8 is provided for compatibility with older kernels.
32-bit ioctls are not supported by a 64-bit library
When Posix ACLs are used, the umask is ignored and the initial permissions
of created files are taken for the parent directory. However the umask
should still be used when the Posix ACLs are not enabled in the mount
options.
Ownership of files should always represent the creator of files.
This fixes a situation, currently disabled, where there is no user
mapping and the owner of the parent directory is used as the owner
of the created file.
The prototype for SetFileSecurityW() does not exhibit a const attribute
for the second attribute, thus triggering a compiler warning.
This warning can be silenced by copying the argument.
ntfsfallocate is the equivalent of fallocate(1) :
Usage : ntfsfallocate [-n] [-p] [-o offset] -l length filename
For now, it is only released as a quarantined ntfsprogs because it can
produce configurations which cause subsequent updates of the file by
Windows to hang.
Distributions have complained about releasing a non-functional ntfsck.
Actually, ntfsck and a few other developer-oriented utilities were not
meant to be released by distributions and are only compiled in if the
configure option --enable-extra is set, and, for some reason, this
option is set by most distributions.
In order to get distributions to not complain, though making the source
code available for candidate developers to improve it, the non functional
or developer-oriented utilities (ntfsck, ntfsdump_logfile, ntfsmftalloc
and ntfsmove) are now only compiled in if the configure option
--enable-quarantined is set.
When using Windows inheritance, the cacheing of ACLs for files created
within a directory only depended on the directory. Actually it also
depends on the user who creates the file. With the patch, only the ACLs
created by the owner of the directory are cached.
When permissions are used, umask(2) is supposed to be active and the
umask mount option is supposed to be ignored, but it was still wrongly
applied. This caused permission restrictions when an external disk was
automatically mounted with standard options.
When grouping of users are determined from /etc/group (a compile-time
option not currently used), the groups examined for checking access rights
to a file were wrongly derived from the uid of the file instead of the
uid of the current process.
Since Vista, the standard directory /Users/Public which should be accessed
by any user is actually restricted to a few group of users, among them
the interactive ones. To make this directory accessible without using
the Posix ACLs, all Linux users are considered as interactive.
However, when Posix ACLs are used, users supposed to be interactive have
to be put into a secondary group mapped to the equivalent Windows group.
When using the Windows permission inheritance mode and the current user
has not been mapped, try to derive a reasonable user from the parent
directory.
The Windows-type inheritance of an ACE may imply creating two ACE's : one
for access and one for further inheritance. The conditions for doing so,
and the flags set on created ACE were sometimes wrong.
Note : the rules have been derived from testing multiple situations, but
there still are some gray cases.
Displaying the parent directory facilitates the identification of files
selected by usermap as a base for defining the mapping of Windows users
to Linux ones.
chmod/chown/setfacl can only define permissions according to Linux rules
with references to owner and group. Windows rules are more general and
propagated through inheritance, and chmod/chown/setfacl may create unwanted
deviations from these rules. Ignoring them prevents text editors from
creating such deviations when updating a file and creating a backup one.
Since Vista, Windows defines a /Users/Public directory supposed to be
public, but actually only allowed to a few user categories (interactive,
batch, etc.) This patch makes possible to create equivalent Unix groups
and group users the same way as in Windows. Posix ACLs have to be enabled
for access to /Users/Public to be allowed to several groups.
The ntfsprogs used to return failure when option --version or --help
was used, and this has triggered complains from distribution packagers
who use these options in packaging scripts.
With this patch, success is returned (same behavior as gcc).
chkdsk deletes the ACLs when they are bad or when they are not used any
more. This fixes inserting a new ACL after the previously last ACL (or
even all of them) was deleted.
When the partition is resized, the global bitmap size is adjusted accordingly,
however so far the new size was not set into the parent index (only minor
consequences).
If a readdir operation returned a file name larger than 255 bytes,
Solaris/Illumos would return I/O error from the readdir operation.
Fixed by truncating the file name returned in the readdir operation.
In ntfs_fuse_parse_path(), it's possible that strdup() succeeds but
ntfs_mbstoucs() returns a negative value. In such a case the callers
just treat it as an error and ignores the allocated path buffer
that results in a memory leak.
It fixes the warnings
src/ntfs-3g.c: In function 'ntfs_fuse_readlink':
src/ntfs-3g.c:987:6: warning: 'path' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
src/ntfs-3g.c: In function 'ntfs_fuse_create':
src/ntfs-3g.c:1765:6: warning: 'path' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
A bug was introduced by commit d2c7d40a2b :
when the beginning of a file was a hole and the runlist span over several
MFT extents, the runlist was not mapped on filling the initial hole.
This lead to a crash when using torrent to download big files.
The ioctl() function is not implemented in the Windows variant. By forcing
a negative apparent return, an alternative is triggered to get the
partition size which is normally obtained from an ioctl().
In some rare situations relocated runlists are longer than the original
ones and do not fit into the same extent. When this happens the runlist
updating is delayed and done globally. Be sure to use the updated global
bitmap for making the needed allocations.
X509 certificates have a purpose field restricting what the certificate
can be used for, and EFS encryption is such a purpose. Allow EFS encryption
to be at any position in the list.
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
