Archive for Август, 2007

Posted by alexey in RHEL4, linux, ntfs-3g, rpm on Август 28th, 2007

fix: utime() also updated the timestamp of the parent directory but it shouldn’t have.
fix: ignore the «volume dirty» bit because its real meaning is «check the volume». The fact of the real dirtiness is stored in the NTFS logfile which is already checked for.
fix: compilation failed with glibc 2.7
new: the –disable-library ‘configure’ option can be used not to install but link libntfs-3g into the ntfs-3g binary. This decreases the binary size by about 10-15% and increases performance by about 2-5%.

Posted by alexey in RHEL4, linux, ntfs-3g, rpm on Август 14th, 2007

Major changes in this release:

fix: file rename may updated the modification time of some files which caused some backup tools, like rsync, not to preserve always this timestamp;
fix: unmount (fusermount -u) was denied for an unprivileged user who was allowed to mount a block device. FUSE 2.7.0+ user space package is required for the full fix;
fix: the driver could hang if there wasn’t enough memory during reading a large directory;
fix: reading a directory may reported success when there was an error;
fix: metadata update error was ignored in some very rare cases during writing a file;
fix: permissions checking was turned on if umask, fmask and dmask was set to the default 000 value;
change: manual update, added Windows filename compatibility section;
change: lots of logging improvements.