ntfs-3g/NEWS
antona af9fd39611 Wheee! Lots of last minute fixes and enhancements.
- 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)
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Current news
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mkntfs now creates NTFS 3.1 (Windows XP) volumes by default. The old NTFS 1.2
format is now deprecated and whilst it can still be specified using a command
line option, it will be removed in a future release.
ntfsmount can create/delete/move files and directories! It is not a full
implementation, thus sometimes it will say 'Operation is not supported',
nothing bad will happen to user data in this case. (Yura Pakhuchiy)
Older news
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Add new utility: ntfsmount. It is a FUSE module that uses on libntfs. So,
you need FUSE 2.3 to compile it. This module supports file overwrite including
changing the file size and can read/write/add/remove named data streams via
"file:stream" interface and list them via "ntfs.streams.list" extended
attribute (this only if xattr support is enabled). (Yura Pakhuchiy)
Moved back from BitKeeper to CVS on SF.net.