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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001ToDo/Notes:
2 - Find and fix bugs.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003 - In between ntfs_prepare/commit_write, need exclusion between
Anton Altaparmakov66129f82004-11-11 12:34:00 +00004 simultaneous file extensions. This is given to us by holding i_sem
5 on the inode. The only places in the kernel when a file is resized
6 are prepare/commit write and truncate for both of which i_sem is
7 held. Just have to be careful in readpage/writepage and all other
8 helpers not running under i_sem that we play nice...
9 Also need to be careful with initialized_size extention in
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070010 ntfs_prepare_write. Basically, just be _very_ careful in this code...
Anton Altaparmakov66129f82004-11-11 12:34:00 +000011 UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are read/writepage
12 which do not hold i_sem. Note writepage cannot change i_size but it
13 needs to cope with a concurrent i_size change, just like readpage.
14 Also both need to cope with concurrent changes to the other sizes,
15 i.e. initialized/allocated/compressed size, as well.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070016 - Implement mft.c::sync_mft_mirror_umount(). We currently will just
17 leave the volume dirty on umount if the final iput(vol->mft_ino)
18 causes a write of any mirrored mft records due to the mft mirror
19 inode having been discarded already. Whether this can actually ever
20 happen is unclear however so it is worth waiting until someone hits
21 the problem.
22 - Enable the code for setting the NT4 compatibility flag when we start
23 making NTFS 1.2 specific modifications.
24
Anton Altaparmakove7a10332005-09-08 16:12:28 +0100252.1.24-WIP
26
27 - Support journals ($LogFile) which have been modified by chkdsk. This
28 means users can boot into Windows after we marked the volume dirty.
29 The Windows boot will run chkdsk and then reboot. The user can then
30 immediately boot into Linux rather than having to do a full Windows
31 boot first before rebooting into Linux and we will recognize such a
32 journal and empty it as it is clean by definition.
33 - Support journals ($LogFile) with only one restart page as well as
34 journals with two different restart pages. We sanity check both and
35 either use the only sane one or the more recent one of the two in the
36 case that both are valid.
Anton Altaparmakov06d0e3c2005-09-08 16:28:25 +010037 - Modify fs/ntfs/malloc.h::ntfs_malloc_nofs() to do the kmalloc() based
38 allocations with __GFP_HIGHMEM, analogous to how the vmalloc() based
39 allocations are done.
40 - Add fs/ntfs/malloc.h::ntfs_malloc_nofs_nofail() which is analogous to
41 ntfs_malloc_nofs() but it performs allocations with __GFP_NOFAIL and
42 hence cannot fail.
Anton Altaparmakov9529d462005-09-08 16:33:12 +010043 - Use ntfs_malloc_nofs_nofail() in the two critical regions in
44 fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_runlists_merge(). This means we no longer
45 need to panic() if the allocation fails as it now cannot fail.
Anton Altaparmakov84d6ebe2005-09-08 16:46:55 +010046 - Fix two nasty runlist merging bugs that had gone unnoticed so far.
47 Thanks to Stefano Picerno for the bug report.
Anton Altaparmakov8bb73522005-09-08 16:48:28 +010048 - Remove two bogus BUG_ON()s from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
Anton Altaparmakov2b0ada22005-09-08 16:52:31 +010049 - Fix handling of valid but empty mapping pairs array in
50 fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress().
Anton Altaparmakovf94ad382005-09-08 17:04:11 +010051 - Report unrepresentable inodes during ntfs_readdir() as KERN_WARNING
52 messages and include the inode number. Thanks to Yura Pakhuchiy for
53 pointing this out.
Anton Altaparmakov3ffc5a42005-09-08 20:23:06 +010054 - Change ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock() to throw away the runlist if the new
55 length is zero.
Anton Altaparmakov6e483212005-09-08 20:26:34 +010056 - Add runlist.[hc]::ntfs_rl_punch_nolock() which punches a caller
57 specified hole into a runlist.
Anton Altaparmakov8e08cea2005-09-08 20:29:50 +010058 - Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/index.c::ntfs_index_lookup(). When the returned
59 index entry is in the index root, we forgot to set the @ir pointer in
60 the index context. Thanks to Yura Pakhuchiy for finding this bug.
Anton Altaparmakovf25dfb52005-09-08 20:35:33 +010061 - Remove bogus setting of PageError in ntfs_read_compressed_block().
Anton Altaparmakov0aaccea2005-09-08 20:40:32 +010062 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_resident_attr_value_resize().
Anton Altaparmakov2983d1b2005-09-08 20:56:09 +010063 - Fix a bug in ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() where we forgot to protect
64 access to the allocated size in the ntfs inode with the size lock.
65 - Fix ntfs_attr_vcn_to_lcn_nolock() and ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() to
66 return LCN_ENOENT when there is no runlist and the allocated size is
67 zero.
68 - Fix load_attribute_list() to handle the case of a NULL runlist.
Anton Altaparmakov807c4532005-09-08 21:01:17 +010069 - Fix handling of sparse attributes in ntfs_attr_make_non_resident().
70 - Add BUG() checks to ntfs_attr_make_non_resident() and ntfs_attr_set()
71 to ensure that these functions are never called for compressed or
72 encrypted attributes.
Anton Altaparmakovbbf18132005-09-08 21:09:06 +010073 - Fix cluster (de)allocators to work when the runlist is NULL and more
74 importantly to take a locked runlist rather than them locking it
75 which leads to lock reversal.
Anton Altaparmakov1c7d4692005-09-08 21:15:09 +010076 - Truncate {a,c,m}time to the ntfs supported time granularity when
77 updating the times in the inode in ntfs_setattr().
Anton Altaparmakove7a10332005-09-08 16:12:28 +010078
Anton Altaparmakovaf859a42005-06-25 21:07:27 +0100792.1.23 - Implement extension of resident files and make writing safe as well as
80 many bug fixes, cleanups, and enhancements...
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070081
82 - Add printk rate limiting for ntfs_warning() and ntfs_error() when
83 compiled without debug. This avoids a possible denial of service
84 attack. Thanks to Carl-Daniel Hailfinger from SuSE for pointing this
85 out.
Randy Dunlap89075472005-03-03 11:19:53 +000086 - Fix compilation warnings on ia64. (Randy Dunlap)
Anton Altaparmakovaf859a42005-06-25 21:07:27 +010087 - Use i_size_{read,write}() instead of reading i_size by hand and cache
88 the value where apropriate.
Anton Altaparmakov36763672004-11-18 13:46:45 +000089 - Add size_lock to the ntfs_inode structure. This is an rw spinlock
90 and it locks against access to the inode sizes. Note, ->size_lock
91 is also accessed from irq context so you must use the _irqsave and
Anton Altaparmakovaf859a42005-06-25 21:07:27 +010092 _irqrestore lock and unlock functions, respectively. Protect all
93 accesses to allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size.
Anton Altaparmakov218357f2004-11-18 20:34:59 +000094 - Minor optimization to fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() and its helpers.
Anton Altaparmakov946929d2005-01-13 15:26:29 +000095 - Implement extension of resident files in the regular file write code
96 paths (fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{prepare,commit}_write()). At present
97 this only works until the data attribute becomes too big for the mft
98 record after which we abort the write returning -EOPNOTSUPP from
99 ntfs_prepare_write().
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +0000100 - Add disable_sparse mount option together with a per volume sparse
101 enable bit which is set appropriately and a per inode sparse disable
102 bit which is preset on some system file inodes as appropriate.
103 - Enforce that sparse support is disabled on NTFS volumes pre 3.0.
Anton Altaparmakov1a0df152005-02-03 12:04:36 +0000104 - Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() in
105 the creation of the unmapped runlist element for the base attribute
106 extent.
Anton Altaparmakovb6ad6c52005-02-15 10:08:43 +0000107 - Split ntfs_map_runlist() into ntfs_map_runlist() and a non-locking
108 helper ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() which is used by ntfs_map_runlist().
109 This allows us to map runlist fragments with the runlist lock already
110 held without having to drop and reacquire it around the call. Adapt
111 all callers.
112 - Change ntfs_find_vcn() to ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() which takes a locked
113 runlist. This allows us to find runlist elements with the runlist
114 lock already held without having to drop and reacquire it around the
115 call. Adapt all callers.
Anton Altaparmakov37e4c132005-02-18 10:03:13 +0000116 - Change time to u64 in time.h::ntfs2utc() as it otherwise generates a
Anton Altaparmakovd8ec7852005-02-18 09:23:39 +0000117 warning in the do_div() call on sparc32. Thanks to Meelis Roos for
118 the report and analysis of the warning.
Anton Altaparmakov37e4c132005-02-18 10:03:13 +0000119 - Fix a nasty runlist merge bug when merging two holes.
Anton Altaparmakov5ae9fcf2005-03-02 17:03:24 +0000120 - Set the ntfs_inode->allocated_size to the real allocated size in the
121 mft record for resident attributes (fs/ntfs/inode.c).
122 - Small readability cleanup to use "a" instead of "ctx->attr"
123 everywhere (fs/ntfs/inode.c).
Anton Altaparmakov41382682005-03-03 13:44:15 +0000124 - Make fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_{parent,dentry} static and move the
125 definition of ntfs_export_ops from fs/ntfs/super.c to namei.c. Also,
126 declare ntfs_export_ops in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h.
Anton Altaparmakov9451f852005-03-03 14:43:43 +0000127 - Correct sparse file handling. The compressed values need to be
128 checked and set in the ntfs inode as done for compressed files and
129 the compressed size needs to be used for vfs inode->i_blocks instead
130 of the allocated size, again, as done for compressed files.
Anton Altaparmakov271849a2005-03-07 21:36:18 +0000131 - Add AT_EA in addition to AT_DATA to whitelist for being allowed to be
132 non-resident in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident().
133 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_vcn_to_lcn_nolock() used by the new
134 write code.
Anton Altaparmakovc0c1cc02005-03-07 21:43:38 +0000135 - Fix bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() where after
136 dropping the read lock and taking the write lock we were not checking
137 whether someone else did not already do the work we wanted to do.
138 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() to
139 ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() and update all callers.
Anton Altaparmakov2bfb4ff2005-03-09 15:15:06 +0000140 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_make_non_resident().
Anton Altaparmakov43b01fd2005-03-09 15:18:43 +0000141 - Fix sign of various error return values to be negative in
142 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c.
Anton Altaparmakov905685f2005-03-10 11:06:19 +0000143 - Modify ->readpage and ->writepage (fs/ntfs/aops.c) so they detect and
144 handle the case where an attribute is converted from resident to
145 non-resident by a concurrent file write.
Jesper Juhl251c8422005-04-04 14:59:56 +0100146 - Remove checks for NULL before calling kfree() since kfree() does the
147 checking itself. (Jesper Juhl)
Anton Altaparmakovb0d23742005-04-04 16:20:14 +0100148 - Some utilities modify the boot sector but do not update the checksum.
149 Thus, relax the checking in fs/ntfs/super.c::is_boot_sector_ntfs() to
150 only emit a warning when the checksum is incorrect rather than
151 refusing the mount. Thanks to Bernd Casimir for pointing this
152 problem out.
Anton Altaparmakovbb3cf332005-04-06 13:34:31 +0100153 - Update attribute definition handling.
Anton Altaparmakov7fafb8b2005-04-06 16:09:21 +0100154 - Add NTFS_MAX_CLUSTER_SIZE and NTFS_MAX_PAGES_PER_CLUSTER constants.
155 - Use NTFS_MAX_CLUSTER_SIZE in super.c instead of hard coding 0x10000.
Anton Altaparmakovd53ee322005-04-06 16:11:20 +0100156 - Use MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE instead of variable sized array allocation for
157 better code generation and one less sparse warning in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
Pekka Enberg2fb21db2005-05-25 21:15:34 +0300158 - Remove spurious void pointer casts from fs/ntfs/. (Pekka Enberg)
Anton Altaparmakov442d2072005-05-27 16:42:56 +0100159 - Use C99 style structure initialization after memory allocation where
160 possible (fs/ntfs/{attrib.c,index.c,super.c}). Thanks to Al Viro and
161 Pekka Enberg.
Anton Altaparmakov3f2faef2005-06-25 15:28:56 +0100162 - Stamp the transaction log ($UsnJrnl), aka user space journal, if it
163 is active on the volume and we are mounting read-write or remounting
164 from read-only to read-write.
Anton Altaparmakov9f993fe2005-06-25 16:15:36 +0100165 - Fix a bug in address space operations error recovery code paths where
166 if the runlist was not mapped at all and a mapping error occured we
167 would leave the runlist locked on exit to the function so that the
168 next access to the same file would try to take the lock and deadlock.
Anton Altaparmakovca8fd7a2005-06-25 16:31:27 +0100169 - Detect the case when Windows has been suspended to disk on the volume
170 to be mounted and if this is the case do not allow (re)mounting
171 read-write. This is done by parsing hiberfil.sys if present.
Anton Altaparmakov3bd1f4a2005-06-25 16:51:58 +0100172 - Fix several occurences of a bug where we would perform 'var & ~const'
173 with a 64-bit variable and a int, i.e. 32-bit, constant. This causes
174 the higher order 32-bits of the 64-bit variable to be zeroed. To fix
175 this cast the 'const' to the same 64-bit type as 'var'.
Anton Altaparmakov1d58b272005-06-25 17:04:55 +0100176 - Change the runlist terminator of the newly allocated cluster(s) to
177 LCN_ENOENT in ntfs_attr_make_non_resident(). Otherwise the runlist
178 code gets confused.
Anton Altaparmakovfa3be922005-06-25 17:15:36 +0100179 - Add an extra parameter @last_vcn to ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs()
180 and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build() to allow the runlist encoding to be
181 partial which is desirable when filling holes in sparse attributes.
182 Update all callers.
Anton Altaparmakov4757d7df2005-06-25 17:24:08 +0100183 - Change ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() to only decompress the mapping pairs
184 if the requested vcn is inside it. Otherwise we get into problems
185 when we try to map an out of bounds vcn because we then try to map
186 the already mapped runlist fragment which causes
187 ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() to fail and return error. Update
188 ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() accordingly.
Anton Altaparmakovba6d2372005-06-26 22:12:02 +0100189 - Fix a nasty deadlock that appeared in recent kernels.
190 The situation: VFS inode X on a mounted ntfs volume is dirty. For
191 same inode X, the ntfs_inode is dirty and thus corresponding on-disk
192 inode, i.e. mft record, which is in a dirty PAGE_CACHE_PAGE belonging
193 to the table of inodes, i.e. $MFT, inode 0.
194 What happens:
195 Process 1: sys_sync()/umount()/whatever... calls
196 __sync_single_inode() for $MFT -> do_writepages() -> write_page for
197 the dirty page containing the on-disk inode X, the page is now locked
198 -> ntfs_write_mst_block() which clears PageUptodate() on the page to
199 prevent anyone else getting hold of it whilst it does the write out.
200 This is necessary as the on-disk inode needs "fixups" applied before
201 the write to disk which are removed again after the write and
202 PageUptodate is then set again. It then analyses the page looking
203 for dirty on-disk inodes and when it finds one it calls
204 ntfs_may_write_mft_record() to see if it is safe to write this
205 on-disk inode. This then calls ilookup5() to check if the
206 corresponding VFS inode is in icache(). This in turn calls ifind()
207 which waits on the inode lock via wait_on_inode whilst holding the
208 global inode_lock.
209 Process 2: pdflush results in a call to __sync_single_inode for the
210 same VFS inode X on the ntfs volume. This locks the inode (I_LOCK)
211 then calls write-inode -> ntfs_write_inode -> map_mft_record() ->
212 read_cache_page() for the page (in page cache of table of inodes
213 $MFT, inode 0) containing the on-disk inode. This page has
214 PageUptodate() clear because of Process 1 (see above) so
215 read_cache_page() blocks when it tries to take the page lock for the
216 page so it can call ntfs_read_page().
217 Thus Process 1 is holding the page lock on the page containing the
218 on-disk inode X and it is waiting on the inode X to be unlocked in
219 ifind() so it can write the page out and then unlock the page.
220 And Process 2 is holding the inode lock on inode X and is waiting for
221 the page to be unlocked so it can call ntfs_readpage() or discover
222 that Process 1 set PageUptodate() again and use the page.
223 Thus we have a deadlock due to ifind() waiting on the inode lock.
224 The solution: The fix is to use the newly introduced
225 ilookup5_nowait() which does not wait on the inode's lock and hence
226 avoids the deadlock. This is safe as we do not care about the VFS
227 inode and only use the fact that it is in the VFS inode cache and the
228 fact that the vfs and ntfs inodes are one struct in memory to find
229 the ntfs inode in memory if present. Also, the ntfs inode has its
230 own locking so it does not matter if the vfs inode is locked.
Anton Altaparmakove74589a2005-08-16 16:38:28 +0100231 - Fix bug in mft record writing where we forgot to set the device in
Anton Altaparmakov481d0372005-08-16 19:42:56 +0100232 the buffers when mapping them after the VM had discarded them.
Anton Altaparmakove74589a2005-08-16 16:38:28 +0100233 Thanks to Martin MOKREJÅ  for the bug report.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700234
2352.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
236
237 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate().
238 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to return an error code
239 instead of void and provide a helper ntfs_truncate_vfs() for the
240 vfs ->truncate method.
241 - Add a new ntfs inode flag NInoTruncateFailed() and modify
242 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to set and clear it appropriately.
243 - Fix min_size and max_size definitions in ATTR_DEF structure in
244 fs/ntfs/layout.h to be signed.
245 - Add attribute definition handling helpers to fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]:
246 ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check(), ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident(), and
247 ntfs_attr_can_be_resident(), which in turn use the new private helper
248 ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef().
249 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty(), take the
250 mapping->private_lock around the dirtying of the buffer heads
251 analagous to the way it is done in __set_page_dirty_buffers().
252 - Ensure the mft record size does not exceed the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at
253 mount time as this cannot work with the current implementation.
254 - Check for location of attribute name and improve error handling in
255 general in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() and friends.
256 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage(), if the page is fully outside
257 i_size, i.e. race with truncate, invalidate the buffers on the page
258 so that they become freeable and hence the page does not leak.
259 - Remove unused function fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_merge(). (Adrian
260 Bunk)
261 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_find() that resulted in
262 a NULL pointer dereference in the error code path when a corrupt
263 attribute was found. (Thanks to Domen Puncer for the bug report.)
264 - Add MODULE_VERSION() to fs/ntfs/super.c.
265 - Make several functions and variables static. (Adrian Bunk)
266 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() so it allocates
267 buffers for the page if they are not present and then marks the
268 buffers belonging to the ntfs record dirty. This causes the buffers
269 to become busy and hence they are safe from removal until the page
270 has been written out.
271 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find() in the
272 error handling code path that resulted in a BUG() due to trying to
273 unmap an extent mft record when the mapping of it had failed and it
274 thus was not mapped. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for the bug report.)
275 - Drop the runlist lock after the vcn has been read in
276 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::__ntfs_cluster_free().
277 - Rewrite handling of multi sector transfer errors. We now do not set
278 PageError() when such errors are detected in the async i/o handler
279 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(). All users of mst
280 protected attributes now check the magic of each ntfs record as they
281 use it and act appropriately. This has the effect of making errors
282 granular per ntfs record rather than per page which solves the case
283 where we cannot access any of the ntfs records in a page when a
284 single one of them had an mst error. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for
285 the bug report.)
286 - Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date()
287 where we failed to release i_sem on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode.
288 - Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
289 - Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e.
290 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(),
291 and write_mft_record_nolock(). From now on we require that the
292 complete runlist for the mft mirror is always mapped into memory.
293 - Add creation of buffers to fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
294 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block().
295 - Cleanup fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page() since we know that a
296 resident attribute will be smaller than a page which makes the code
297 simpler. Also make the code more tolerant to concurrent ->truncate.
298
2992.1.21 - Fix some races and bugs, rewrite mft write code, add mft allocator.
300
301 - Implement extent mft record deallocation
302 fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_extent_mft_record_free().
303 - Splitt runlist related functions off from attrib.[hc] to runlist.[hc].
304 - Add vol->mft_data_pos and initialize it at mount time.
305 - Rename init_runlist() to ntfs_init_runlist(), ntfs_vcn_to_lcn() to
306 ntfs_rl_vcn_to_lcn(), decompress_mapping_pairs() to
307 ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(), ntfs_merge_runlists() to
308 ntfs_runlists_merge() and adapt all callers.
309 - Add fs/ntfs/runlist.[hc]::ntfs_get_nr_significant_bytes(),
310 ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs(), ntfs_write_significant_bytes(),
311 and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build(), adapted from libntfs.
312 - Make fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() not
313 static and add a declaration for it to lcnalloc.h.
314 - Add fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.h::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl() which is a static
315 inline wrapper for ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() which takes the
316 cluster bitmap lock for the duration of the call.
317 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_record_resize().
318 - Implement the equivalent of memset() for an ntfs attribute in
319 fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_set() and switch
320 fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_empty_logfile() to using it.
321 - Remove unnecessary casts from LCN_* constants.
322 - Implement fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock().
323 - Add MFT_RECORD_OLD as a copy of MFT_RECORD in fs/ntfs/layout.h and
324 change MFT_RECORD to contain the NTFS 3.1+ specific fields.
325 - Add a helper function fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which
326 marks all buffers belonging to an ntfs record dirty, followed by
327 marking the page the ntfs record is in dirty and also marking the vfs
328 inode containing the ntfs record dirty (I_DIRTY_PAGES).
329 - Switch fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to using the
330 new helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and remove the no
331 longer needed fs/ntfs/index.[hc]::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty().
332 - Move ntfs_{un,}map_page() from ntfs.h to aops.h and fix resulting
333 include errors.
334 - Move the typedefs for runlist_element and runlist from types.h to
335 runlist.h and fix resulting include errors.
336 - Remove unused {__,}format_mft_record() from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
337 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::__mark_mft_record_dirty() to use the helper
338 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which also changes the behaviour in that we
339 now set the buffers belonging to the mft record dirty as well as the
340 page itself.
341 - Update fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and sync_mft_mirror()
342 to cope with the fact that there now are dirty buffers in mft pages.
343 - Update fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode() to also use the helper
344 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and thus to set the buffers belonging to the
345 mft record dirty as well as the page itself.
346 - Fix compiler warnings on x86-64 in fs/ntfs/dir.c. (Randy Dunlap,
347 slightly modified by me)
348 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record() which fails with -EALREADY if
349 the mft record is already locked and otherwise behaves the same way
350 as fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_mft_record().
351 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() so that it only
352 writes the mft record if the buffers belonging to it are dirty.
353 Otherwise we assume that it was written out by other means already.
354 - Attempting to write outside initialized size is _not_ a bug so remove
355 the bug check from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(). It is in
356 fact required to write outside initialized size when preparing to
357 extend the initialized size.
358 - Map the page instead of using page_address() before writing to it in
359 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mft_writepage().
360 - Provide exclusion between opening an inode / mapping an mft record
361 and accessing the mft record in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage()
362 by setting the page not uptodate throughout ntfs_mft_writepage().
363 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block()
364 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
365 - Add the helper fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_may_write_mft_record() which
366 checks if an mft record may be written out safely obtaining any
367 necessary locks in the process. This is used by
368 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block().
369 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to also work for
370 writing mft records and improve its error handling in the process.
371 Now if any of the records in the page fail to be written out, all
372 other records will be written out instead of aborting completely.
373 - Remove ntfs_mft_aops and update all users to use ntfs_mst_aops.
374 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to set the
375 ntfs_mst_aops for all inodes which are NInoMstProtected() and
376 ntfs_aops for all other inodes.
377 - Rename fs/ntfs/mft.c::sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() to
378 ntfs_sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() and change their parameters so they
379 no longer require an ntfs inode to be present. Update all callers.
380 - Cleanup the error handling in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
381 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror()
382 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
383 - Remove the no longer needed fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() and
384 fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record().
385 - Fix callers of fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to call it
386 with the ntfs inode which contains the page rather than the ntfs
387 inode the mft record of which is in the page.
388 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by moving the
389 index inode bitmap inode release code from there to
390 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_clear_big_inode(). (Thanks to Christoph
391 Hellwig for spotting this.)
392 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by taking the
393 inode semaphore around the code that sets ni->itype.index.bmp_ino to
394 NULL and reorganize the code to optimize it a bit. (Thanks to
395 Christoph Hellwig for spotting this.)
396 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to no longer take the
397 ntfs inode as a parameter as this is confusing and misleading and the
398 needed ntfs inode is available via NTFS_I(page->mapping->host).
399 Adapt all callers to this change.
400 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and
401 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to only check the dirty state
402 of the first buffer in a record and to take this as the ntfs record
403 dirty state. We cannot look at the dirty state for subsequent
404 buffers because we might be racing with
405 fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty().
406 - Move the static inline ntfs_init_big_inode() from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
407 inode.h and make fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_init_inode() non-static and
408 add a declaration for it to inode.h. Fix some compilation issues
409 that resulted due to #includes and header file interdependencies.
410 - Simplify setup of i_mode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode().
411 - Add helpers fs/ntfs/layout.h::MK_MREF() and MK_LE_MREF().
412 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() to only verify the mft
413 record sequence number if it is specified (i.e. not zero).
414 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_alloc() and various helper
415 functions used by it.
416 - Update Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt with instructions on how to
417 use the Device-Mapper driver with NTFS ftdisk/LDM raid. This removes
418 the linear raid problem with the Software RAID / MD driver when one
419 or more of the devices has an odd number of sectors.
420
4212.1.20 - Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release.
422
423 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx()
424 where we did not clear ctx->al_entry but it was still set due to
425 changes in ntfs_attr_lookup() and ntfs_external_attr_find() in
426 particular.
427 - Fix another stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find()
428 where we forgot to unmap the extent mft record when we had finished
429 enumerating an attribute which caused a bug check to trigger when the
430 VFS calls ->clear_inode.
431
4322.1.19 - Many cleanups, improvements, and a minor bug fix.
433
434 - Update ->setattr (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) to refuse to
435 change the uid, gid, and mode of an inode as we do not support NTFS
436 ACLs yet.
437 - Remove BKL use from ntfs_setattr() syncing up with the rest of the
438 kernel.
439 - Get rid of the ugly transparent union in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir()
440 and ntfs_filldir() as per suggestion from Al Viro.
441 - Change '\0' and L'\0' to simply 0 as per advice from Linus Torvalds.
442 - Update ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) to check if the
443 inode size has changed and to only output an error if so.
444 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.h::attribute_value_length() to ntfs_attr_size().
445 - Add le{16,32,64} as well as sle{16,32,64} data types to
446 fs/ntfs/types.h.
447 - Change ntfschar to be le16 instead of u16 in fs/ntfs/types.h.
448 - Add le versions of VCN, LCN, and LSN called leVCN, leLCN, and leLSN,
449 respectively, to fs/ntfs/types.h.
450 - Update endianness conversion macros in fs/ntfs/endian.h to use the
451 new types as appropriate.
452 - Do proper type casting when using sle64_to_cpup() in fs/ntfs/dir.c
453 and index.c.
454 - Add leMFT_REF data type to fs/ntfs/layout.h.
455 - Update all NTFS header files with the new little endian data types.
456 Affected files are fs/ntfs/layout.h, logfile.h, and time.h.
457 - Do proper type casting when using ntfs_is_*_recordp() in
458 fs/ntfs/logfile.c, mft.c, and super.c.
459 - Fix all the sparse bitwise warnings. Had to change all the typedef
460 enums storing little endian values to simple enums plus a typedef for
461 the datatype to make sparse happy.
462 - Fix a bug found by the new sparse bitwise warnings where the default
463 upcase table was defined as a pointer to wchar_t rather than ntfschar
464 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h and super.c.
465 - Change {const_,}cpu_to_le{16,32}(0) to just 0 as suggested by Al Viro.
466
4672.1.18 - Fix scheduling latencies at mount time as well as an endianness bug.
468
469 - Remove vol->nr_mft_records as it was pretty meaningless and optimize
470 the calculation of total/free inodes as used by statfs().
471 - Fix scheduling latencies in ntfs_fill_super() by dropping the BKL
472 because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock semaphore which
473 provides safe locking. (Ingo Molnar)
474 - Fix a potential bug in fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() that
475 could occur in the future for when we start closing/freeing extent
476 inodes if we don't set base_ni->ext.extent_ntfs_inos to NULL after
477 we free it.
478 - Rename {find,lookup}_attr() to ntfs_attr_{find,lookup}() as well as
479 find_external_attr() to ntfs_external_attr_find() to cleanup the
480 namespace a bit and to be more consistent with libntfs.
481 - Rename {{re,}init,get,put}_attr_search_ctx() to
482 ntfs_attr_{{re,}init,get,put}_search_ctx() as well as the type
483 attr_search_context to ntfs_attr_search_ctx.
484 - Force use of ntfs_attr_find() in ntfs_attr_lookup() when searching
485 for the attribute list attribute itself.
486 - Fix endianness bug in ntfs_external_attr_find().
487 - Change ntfs_{external_,}attr_find() to return 0 on success, -ENOENT
488 if the attribute is not found, and -EIO on real error. In the case
489 of -ENOENT, the search context is updated to describe the attribute
490 before which the attribute being searched for would need to be
491 inserted if such an action were to be desired and in the case of
492 ntfs_external_attr_find() the search context is also updated to
493 indicate the attribute list entry before which the attribute list
494 entry of the attribute being searched for would need to be inserted
495 if such an action were to be desired. Also make ntfs_find_attr()
496 static and remove its prototype from attrib.h as it is not used
497 anywhere other than attrib.c. Update ntfs_attr_lookup() and all
498 callers of ntfs_{external,}attr_{find,lookup}() for the new return
499 values.
500 - Minor cleanup of fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_init_locked_inode().
501
5022.1.17 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths and other updates.
503
504 - Implement bitmap modification code (fs/ntfs/bitmap.[hc]). This
505 includes functions to set/clear a single bit or a run of bits.
506 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_find_vcn() which returns the locked
507 runlist element containing a particular vcn. It also takes care of
508 mapping any needed runlist fragments.
509 - Implement cluster (de-)allocation code (fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.[hc]).
510 - Load attribute definition table from $AttrDef at mount time.
511 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths involving (de)allocation of
512 the default and volume upcase tables.
513 - Remove ntfs_nr_mounts as it is no longer used.
514
5152.1.16 - Implement access time updates, file sync, async io, and read/writev.
516
517 - Add support for readv/writev and aio_read/aio_write (fs/ntfs/file.c).
518 This is done by setting the appropriate file operations pointers to
519 the generic helper functions provided by mm/filemap.c.
520 - Implement fsync, fdatasync, and msync both for files (fs/ntfs/file.c)
521 and directories (fs/ntfs/dir.c).
522 - Add support for {a,m,c}time updates to inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().
523 Note, except for the root directory and any other system files opened
524 by the user, the system files will not have their access times
525 updated as they are only accessed at the inode level an hence the
526 file level functions which cause the times to be updated are never
527 invoked.
528
5292.1.15 - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
530
531 - Add new element itype.index.collation_rule to the ntfs inode
532 structure and set it appropriately in ntfs_read_locked_inode().
533 - Implement a new inode type "index" to allow efficient access to the
534 indices found in various system files and adapt inode handling
535 accordingly (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]). An index inode is essentially an
536 attribute inode (NInoAttr() is true) with an attribute type of
537 AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION. As such, it is no longer allowed to call
538 ntfs_attr_iget() with an attribute type of AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION as
539 there would be no way to distinguish between normal attribute inodes
540 and index inodes. The function to obtain an index inode is
541 ntfs_index_iget() and it uses the helper function
542 ntfs_read_locked_index_inode(). Note, we do not overload
543 ntfs_attr_iget() as indices consist of multiple attributes so using
544 ntfs_attr_iget() to obtain an index inode would be confusing.
545 - Ensure that there is no overflow when doing page->index <<
546 PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT by casting page->index to s64 in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
547 - Use atomic kmap instead of kmap() in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page()
548 and ntfs_read_block().
549 - Use case sensitive attribute lookups instead of case insensitive ones.
550 - Lock all page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes while
551 accessing them to ensure we never see corrupt data while the page is
552 under writeout.
553 - Add framework for generic ntfs collation (fs/ntfs/collation.[hc]).
554 We have ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported() to check if the collation
555 rule you want to use is supported and ntfs_collation() which actually
556 collates two data items. We currently only support COLLATION_BINARY
557 and COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG but support for other collation rules will
558 be added as the need arises.
559 - Add a new type, ntfs_index_context, to allow retrieval of an index
560 entry using the corresponding index key. To get an index context,
561 use ntfs_index_ctx_get() and to release it, use ntfs_index_ctx_put().
562 This also adds a new slab cache for the index contexts. To lookup a
563 key in an index inode, use ntfs_index_lookup(). After modifying an
564 index entry, call ntfs_index_entry_flush_dcache_page() followed by
565 ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to ensure the changes are written out
566 to disk. For details see fs/ntfs/index.[hc]. Note, at present, if
567 an index entry is in the index allocation attribute rather than the
568 index root attribute it will not be written out (you will get a
569 warning message about discarded changes instead).
570 - Load the quota file ($Quota) and check if quota tracking is enabled
571 and if so, mark the quotas out of date. This causes windows to
572 rescan the volume on boot and update all quota entries.
573 - Add a set_page_dirty address space operation for ntfs_m[fs]t_aops.
574 It is simply set to __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() to make sure that
575 running set_page_dirty() on a page containing mft/ntfs records will
576 not affect the dirty state of the page buffers.
577 - Add fs/ntfs/index.c::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() which sets all
578 buffers that are inside the ntfs record in the page dirty after which
579 it sets the page dirty. This allows ->writepage to only write the
580 dirty index records rather than having to write all the records in
581 the page. Modify fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to
582 use this rather than __set_page_dirty_nobuffers().
583 - Implement fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() which enables the
584 writing of page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes
585 like the index allocation attribute in directory indices and other
586 indices like $Quota/$Q, etc. This means that the quota is now marked
587 out of date on all volumes rather than only on ones where the quota
588 defaults entry is in the index root attribute of the $Quota/$Q index.
589
5902.1.14 - Fix an NFSd caused deadlock reported by several users.
591
592 - Modify fs/ntfs/ntfs_readdir() to copy the index root attribute value
593 to a buffer so that we can put the search context and unmap the mft
594 record before calling the filldir() callback. We need to do this
595 because of NFSd which calls ->lookup() from its filldir callback()
596 and this causes NTFS to deadlock as ntfs_lookup() maps the mft record
597 of the directory and since ntfs_readdir() has got it mapped already
598 ntfs_lookup() deadlocks.
599
6002.1.13 - Enable overwriting of resident files and housekeeping of system files.
601
602 - Implement writing of mft records (fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]), which includes
603 keeping the mft mirror in sync with the mft when mirrored mft records
604 are written. The functions are write_mft_record{,_nolock}(). The
605 implementation is quite rudimentary for now with lots of things not
606 implemented yet but I am not sure any of them can actually occur so
607 I will wait for people to hit each one and only then implement it.
608 - Commit open system inodes at umount time. This should make it
609 virtually impossible for sync_mft_mirror_umount() to ever be needed.
610 - Implement ->write_inode (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode()) for the
611 ntfs super operations. This gives us inode writing via the VFS inode
612 dirty code paths. Note: Access time updates are not implemented yet.
613 - Implement fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::{,__}mark_mft_record_dirty() and make
614 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and ntfs_commit_write() use it, thus
615 finally enabling resident file overwrite! (-8 This also includes a
616 placeholder for ->writepage (ntfs_mft_writepage()), which for now
617 just redirties the page and returns. Also, at umount time, we for
618 now throw away all mft data page cache pages after the last call to
619 ntfs_commit_inode() in the hope that all inodes will have been
620 written out by then and hence no dirty (meta)data will be lost. We
621 also check for this case and emit an error message telling the user
622 to run chkdsk.
623 - Use set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback() in the resident
624 attribute code path of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() otherwise
625 the radix-tree tag PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the
626 page is clean.
627 - Implement ntfs_mft_writepage() so it now checks if any of the mft
628 records in the page are dirty and if so redirties the page and
629 returns. Otherwise it just returns (after doing set_page_writeback(),
630 unlock_page(), end_page_writeback() or the radix-tree tag
631 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the page is clean), thus
632 alowing the VM to do with the page as it pleases. Also, at umount
633 time, now only throw away dirty mft (meta)data pages if dirty inodes
634 are present and ask the user to email us if they see this happening.
635 - Add functions ntfs_{clear,set}_volume_flags(), to modify the volume
636 information flags (fs/ntfs/super.c).
637 - Mark the volume dirty when (re)mounting read-write and mark it clean
638 when unmounting or remounting read-only. If any volume errors are
639 found, the volume is left marked dirty to force chkdsk to run.
640 - Add code to set the NT4 compatibility flag when (re)mounting
641 read-write for newer NTFS versions but leave it commented out for now
642 since we do not make any modifications that are NTFS 1.2 specific yet
643 and since setting this flag breaks Captive-NTFS which is not nice.
644 This code must be enabled once we start writing NTFS 1.2 specific
645 changes otherwise Windows NTFS driver might crash / cause corruption.
646
6472.1.12 - Fix the second fix to the decompression engine and some cleanups.
648
649 - Add a new address space operations struct, ntfs_mst_aops, for mst
650 protected attributes. This is because the default ntfs_aops do not
651 make sense with mst protected data and were they to write anything to
652 such an attribute they would cause data corruption so we provide
653 ntfs_mst_aops which does not have any write related operations set.
654 - Cleanup dirty ntfs inode handling (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]) which also
655 includes an adapted ntfs_commit_inode() and an implementation of
656 ntfs_write_inode() which for now just cleans dirty inodes without
657 writing them (it does emit a warning that this is happening).
658 - Undo the second decompression engine fix (see 2.1.9 release ChangeLog
659 entry) as it was only fixing a theoretical bug but at the same time
660 it badly broke the handling of sparse and uncompressed compression
661 blocks.
662
6632.1.11 - Driver internal cleanups.
664
665 - Only build logfile.o if building the driver with read-write support.
666 - Really final white space cleanups.
667 - Use generic_ffs() instead of ffs() in logfile.c which allows the
668 log_page_size variable to be optimized by gcc into a constant.
669 - Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere as uchar_t is unsigned 1-byte
670 char as defined by POSIX and as found on some systems.
671
6722.1.10 - Force read-only (re)mounting of volumes with unsupported volume flags.
673
674 - Finish off the white space cleanups (remove trailing spaces, etc).
675 - Clean up ntfs_fill_super() and ntfs_read_inode_mount() by removing
676 the kludges around the first iget(). Instead of (re)setting ->s_op
677 we have the $MFT inode set up by explicit new_inode() / set ->i_ino /
678 insert_inode_hash() / call ntfs_read_inode_mount() directly. This
679 kills the need for second super_operations and allows to return error
680 from ntfs_read_inode_mount() without resorting to ugly "poisoning"
681 tricks. (Al Viro)
682 - Force read-only (re)mounting if any of the following bits are set in
683 the volume information flags:
684 VOLUME_IS_DIRTY, VOLUME_RESIZE_LOG_FILE,
685 VOLUME_UPGRADE_ON_MOUNT, VOLUME_DELETE_USN_UNDERWAY,
686 VOLUME_REPAIR_OBJECT_ID, VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK
687 To make this easier we define VOLUME_MUST_MOUNT_RO_MASK with all the
688 above bits set so the test is made easy.
689
6902.1.9 - Fix two bugs in decompression engine.
691
692 - Fix a bug where we would not always detect that we have reached the
693 end of a compression block because we were ending at minus one byte
694 which is effectively the same as being at the end. The fix is to
695 check whether the uncompressed buffer has been fully filled and if so
696 we assume we have reached the end of the compression block. A big
697 thank you to Marcin Gibuła for the bug report, the assistance in
698 tracking down the bug and testing the fix.
699 - Fix a possible bug where when a compressed read is truncated to the
700 end of the file, the offset inside the last page was not truncated.
701
7022.1.8 - Handle $MFT mirror and $LogFile, improve time handling, and cleanups.
703
704 - Use get_bh() instead of manual atomic_inc() in fs/ntfs/compress.c.
705 - Modify fs/ntfs/time.c::ntfs2utc(), get_current_ntfs_time(), and
706 utc2ntfs() to work with struct timespec instead of time_t on the
707 Linux UTC time side thus preserving the full precision of the NTFS
708 time and only loosing up to 99 nano-seconds in the Linux UTC time.
709 - Move fs/ntfs/time.c to fs/ntfs/time.h and make the time functions
710 static inline.
711 - Remove unused ntfs_dirty_inode().
712 - Cleanup super operations declaration in fs/ntfs/super.c.
713 - Wrap flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in #ifdef NTFS_RW.
714 - Add NInoTestSetFoo() and NInoTestClearFoo() macro magic to
715 fs/ntfs/inode.h and use it to declare NInoTest{Set,Clear}Dirty.
716 - Move typedefs for ntfs_attr and test_t from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
717 fs/ntfs/inode.h so they can be used elsewhere.
718 - Determine the mft mirror size as the number of mirrored mft records
719 and store it in ntfs_volume->mftmirr_size (fs/ntfs/super.c).
720 - Load the mft mirror at mount time and compare the mft records stored
721 in it to the ones in the mft. Force a read-only mount if the two do
722 not match (fs/ntfs/super.c).
723 - Fix type casting related warnings on 64-bit architectures. Thanks
724 to Meelis Roos for reporting them.
725 - Move %L to %ll as %L is floating point and %ll is integer which is
726 what we want.
727 - Read the journal ($LogFile) and determine if the volume has been
728 shutdown cleanly and force a read-only mount if not (fs/ntfs/super.c
729 and fs/ntfs/logfile.c). This is a little bit of a crude check in
730 that we only look at the restart areas and not at the actual log
731 records so that there will be a very small number of cases where we
732 think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean. This should
733 only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly and did not
734 have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o.
735 - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a read-write (re)mount
736 is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it with 0xff bytes to
737 ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale
738 journal after Linux has written to the volume.
739
7402.1.7 - Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes.
741
742 - Set i_generation in the VFS inode from the seq_no of the NTFS inode.
743 - Make ntfs_lookup() NFS export safe, i.e. use d_splice_alias(), etc.
744 - Implement ->get_dentry() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_dentry() as the
745 default doesn't allow inode number 0 which is a valid inode on NTFS
746 and even if it did allow that it uses iget() instead of ntfs_iget()
747 which makes it useless for us.
748 - Implement ->get_parent() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_parent() as the
749 default just returns -EACCES which is not very useful.
750 - Define export operations (->s_export_op) for NTFS (ntfs_export_ops)
751 and set them up in the super block at mount time (super.c) this
752 allows mounted NTFS volumes to be exported via NFS.
753 - Add missing return -EOPNOTSUPP; in
754 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write().
755 - Enforce no atime and no dir atime updates at mount/remount time as
756 they are not implemented yet anyway.
757 - Move a few assignments in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::load_attribute_list() to
758 after a NULL check. Thanks to Dave Jones for pointing this out.
759
7602.1.6 - Fix minor bug in handling of compressed directories.
761
762 - Fix bug in handling of compressed directories. A compressed
763 directory is not really compressed so when we set the ->i_blocks
764 field of a compressed directory inode we were setting it from the
765 non-existing field ni->itype.compressed.size which gave random
766 results... For directories we now always use ni->allocated_size.
767
7682.1.5 - Fix minor bug in attribute list attribute handling.
769
770 - Fix bug in attribute list handling. Actually it is not as much a bug
771 as too much protection in that we were not allowing attribute lists
772 which waste space on disk while Windows XP clearly allows it and in
773 fact creates such attribute lists so our driver was failing.
774 - Update NTFS documentation ready for 2.6 kernel release.
775
7762.1.4 - Reduce compiler requirements.
777
778 - Remove all uses of unnamed structs and unions in the driver to make
779 old and newer gcc versions happy. Makes it a bit uglier IMO but at
780 least people will stop hassling me about it.
781
7822.1.3 - Important bug fixes in corner cases.
783
784 - super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Correct the check for 64-bit
785 clusters. (Philipp Thomas)
786 - attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a
787 multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs
788 Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>)
789
7902.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs.
791
792 - Fix buggy free cluster and free inode determination logic.
793
7942.1.1 - Minor updates.
795
796 - Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files.
797 - Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in
798 fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.ord>)
799 - Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc.
800 - Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write()
801 around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write. Adapt NTFS appropriately
802 in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() by using
803 kmap_atomic(KM_USER0).
804
8052.1.0 - First steps towards write support: implement file overwrite.
806
807 - Add configuration option for developmental write support with an
808 appropriately scary configuration help text.
809 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its
810 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block(). This enables mmap(2) based
811 overwriting of existing files on ntfs. Note: Resident files are
812 only written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so
813 avoid writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
814 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_write(), its
815 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() and their
816 counterparts, fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_write(), and
817 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write(), respectively. Also,
818 add generic_file_write() to the ntfs file operations (fs/ntfs/file.c).
819 This enables write(2) based overwriting of existing files on ntfs.
820 Note: As with mmap(2) based overwriting, resident files are only
821 written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so avoid
822 writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
823 - Implement ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) and
824 ->setattr() (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) inode operations for
825 files with the purpose of intercepting and aborting all i_size
826 changes which we do not support yet. ntfs_truncate() actually only
827 emits a warning message but AFAICS our interception of i_size changes
828 elsewhere means ntfs_truncate() never gets called for i_size changes.
829 It is only called from generic_file_write() when we fail in
830 ntfs_prepare_{,nonresident_}write() in order to discard any
831 instantiated buffers beyond i_size. Thus i_size is not actually
832 changed so our warning message is enough. Unfortunately it is not
833 possible to easily determine if i_size is being changed or not hence
834 we just emit an appropriately worded error message.
835
8362.0.25 - Small bug fixes and cleanups.
837
838 - Unlock the page in an out of memory error code path in
839 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
840 - If fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page() is called on an uptodate page,
841 just unlock the page and return. (This can happen due to ->writepage
842 clearing PageUptodate() during write out of MstProtected()
843 attributes.
844 - Remove leaked write code again.
845
8462.0.24 - Cleanups.
847
848 - Treat BUG_ON() as ASSERT() not VERIFY(), i.e. do not use side effects
849 inside BUG_ON(). (Adam J. Richter)
850 - Split logical OR expressions inside BUG_ON() into individual BUG_ON()
851 calls for improved debugging. (Adam J. Richter)
852 - Add errors flag to the ntfs volume state, accessed via
853 NVol{,Set,Clear}Errors(vol).
854 - Do not allow read-write remounts of read-only volumes with errors.
855 - Clarify comment for ntfs file operation sendfile which was added by
856 Christoph Hellwig a while ago (just using generic_file_sendfile())
857 to say that ntfs ->sendfile is only used for the case where the
858 source data is on the ntfs partition and the destination is
859 somewhere else, i.e. nothing we need to concern ourselves with.
860 - Add generic_file_write() as our ntfs file write operation.
861
8622.0.23 - Major bug fixes (races, deadlocks, non-i386 architectures).
863
864 - Massive internal locking changes to mft record locking. Fixes lock
865 recursion and replaces the mrec_lock read/write semaphore with a
866 mutex. Also removes the now superfluous mft_count. This fixes several
867 race conditions and deadlocks, especially in the future write code.
868 - Fix ntfs over loopback for compressed files by adding an
869 optimization barrier. (gcc was screwing up otherwise ?)
870 - Miscellaneous cleanups all over the code and a fix or two in error
871 handling code paths.
872 Thanks go to Christoph Hellwig for pointing out the following two:
873 - Remove now unused function fs/ntfs/malloc.h::vmalloc_nofs().
874 - Fix ntfs_free() for ia64 and parisc by checking for VMALLOC_END, too.
875
8762.0.22 - Cleanups, mainly to ntfs_readdir(), and use C99 initializers.
877
878 - Change fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_reddir() to only read/write ->f_pos once
879 at entry/exit respectively.
880 - Use C99 initializers for structures.
881 - Remove unused variable blocks from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
882
8832.0.21 - Check for, and refuse to work with too large files/directories/volumes.
884
885 - Limit volume size at mount time to 2TiB on architectures where
886 unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector()).
887 This is the most we can do without overflowing the 32-bit limit of
888 the block device size imposed on us by sb_bread() and sb_getblk()
889 for the time being.
890 - Limit file/directory size at open() time to 16TiB on architectures
891 where unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open() and
892 fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_dir_open()). This is the most we can do without
893 overflowing the page cache page index.
894
8952.0.20 - Support non-resident directory index bitmaps, fix page leak in readdir.
896
897 - Move the directory index bitmap to use an attribute inode instead of
898 having special fields for it inside the ntfs inode structure. This
899 means that the index bitmaps now use the page cache for i/o, too,
900 and also as a side effect we get support for non-resident index
901 bitmaps for free.
902 - Simplify/cleanup error handling in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() and
903 fix a page leak that manifested itself in some cases.
904 - Add fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(), which we need to release the
905 index bitmap inode on the final iput().
906
9072.0.19 - Fix race condition, improvements, and optimizations in i/o interface.
908
909 - Apply block optimization added to fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block()
910 to fs/ntfs/compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() as well.
911 - Drop the "file" from ntfs_file_read_compressed_block().
912 - Rename fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_enb_buffer_read_async() to
913 ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() (more like the fs/buffer.c counterpart).
914 - Update ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() with the improved logic from
915 its updated counterpart fs/buffer.c::end_buffer_async_read(). Apply
916 further logic improvements to better determine when we set PageError.
917 - Update submission of buffers in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
918 check for the buffers being uptodate first in line with the updated
919 fs/buffer.c::block_read_full_page(). This plugs a small race
920 condition.
921
9222.0.18 - Fix race condition in reading of compressed files.
923
924 - There was a narrow window between checking a buffer head for being
925 uptodate and locking it in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block(). We now
926 lock the buffer and then check whether it is uptodate or not.
927
9282.0.17 - Cleanups and optimizations - shrinking the ToDo list.
929
930 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to return an error
931 code and update callers, i.e. ntfs_iget(), to pass that error code
932 up instead of just using -EIO.
933 - Modifications to super.c to ensure that both mount and remount
934 cannot set any write related options when the driver is compiled
935 read-only.
936 - Optimize block resolution in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
937 cache the current runlist element. This should improve performance
938 when reading very large and/or very fragmented data.
939
9402.0.16 - Convert access to $MFT/$BITMAP to attribute inode API.
941
942 - Fix a stupid bug introduced in 2.0.15 where we were unmapping the
943 wrong inode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_attr_iget().
944 - Fix debugging check in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
945 - Convert $MFT/$BITMAP access to attribute inode API and remove all
946 remnants of the ugly mftbmp address space and operations hack. This
947 means we finally have only one readpage function as well as only one
948 async io completion handler. Yey! The mft bitmap is now just an
949 attribute inode and is accessed from vol->mftbmp_ino just as if it
950 were a normal file. Fake inodes rule. (-:
951
9522.0.15 - Fake inodes based attribute i/o via the pagecache, fixes and cleanups.
953
954 - Fix silly bug in fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_options() which was causing
955 remounts to fail when the partition had an entry in /etc/fstab and
956 the entry specified the nls= option.
957 - Apply same macro magic used in fs/ntfs/inode.h to fs/ntfs/volume.h to
958 expand all the helper functions NVolFoo(), NVolSetFoo(), and
959 NVolClearFoo().
960 - Move copyright statement from driver initialisation message to
961 module description (fs/super.c). This makes the initialisation
962 message fit on one line and fits in better with rest of kernel.
963 - Update fs/ntfs/attrib.c::map_run_list() to work on both real and
964 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
965 - Implement fake attribute inodes allowing all attribute i/o to go via
966 the page cache and to use all the normal vfs/mm functionality:
967 - Add ntfs_attr_iget() and its helper ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode()
968 to fs/ntfs/inode.c.
969 - Add needed cleanup code to ntfs_clear_big_inode().
970 - Merge address space operations for files and directories (aops.c),
971 now just have ntfs_aops:
972 - Rename:
973 end_buffer_read_attr_async() -> ntfs_end_buffer_read_async(),
974 ntfs_attr_read_block() -> ntfs_read_block(),
975 ntfs_file_read_page() -> ntfs_readpage().
976 - Rewrite fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_readpage() to work on both real and
977 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
978 - Remove obsolete fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage().
979
9802.0.14 - Run list merging code cleanup, minor locking changes, typo fixes.
981
982 - Change fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() to not rely on BKL by moving
983 the locking out of super.c::get_nr_free_mft_records() and taking and
984 dropping the mftbmp_lock rw_semaphore in ntfs_statfs() itself.
985 - Bring attribute runlist merging code (fs/ntfs/attrib.c) in sync with
986 current userspace ntfs library code. This means that if a merge
987 fails the original runlists are always left unmodified instead of
988 being silently corrupted.
989 - Misc typo fixes.
990
9912.0.13 - Use iget5_locked() in preparation for fake inodes and small cleanups.
992
993 - Remove nr_mft_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_mft_records
994 from ntfs_volume structure.
995 - Remove nr_lcn_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_clusters
996 from ntfs_volume structure.
997 - Use iget5_locked() and friends instead of conventional iget(). Wrap
998 the call in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_iget() and update callers of iget()
999 to use ntfs_iget(). Leave only one iget() call at mount time so we
1000 don't need an ntfs_iget_mount().
1001 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_new_extent_inode() to take mft_no as an
1002 additional argument.
1003
10042.0.12 - Initial cleanup of address space operations following 2.0.11 changes.
1005
1006 - Merge fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_mst_async() and
1007 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_file_async() into one function
1008 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_attr_async() using NInoMstProtected()
1009 to determine whether to apply mst fixups or not.
1010 - Above change allows merging fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_file_read_block()
1011 and fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() into one function
1012 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_attr_read_block(). Also, create a tiny wrapper
1013 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() to transform the parameters from
1014 the VFS readpage function prototype to the ntfs_attr_read_block()
1015 function prototype.
1016
10172.0.11 - Initial preparations for fake inode based attribute i/o.
1018
1019 - Move definition of ntfs_inode_state_bits to fs/ntfs/inode.h and
1020 do some macro magic (adapted from include/linux/buffer_head.h) to
1021 expand all the helper functions NInoFoo(), NInoSetFoo(), and
1022 NInoClearFoo().
1023 - Add new flag to ntfs_inode_state_bits: NI_Sparse.
1024 - Add new fields to ntfs_inode structure to allow use of fake inodes
1025 for attribute i/o: type, name, name_len. Also add new state bits:
1026 NI_Attr, which, if set, indicates the inode is a fake inode, and
1027 NI_MstProtected, which, if set, indicates the attribute uses multi
1028 sector transfer protection, i.e. fixups need to be applied after
1029 reads and before/after writes.
1030 - Rename fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_inode() to
1031 ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_extent_inode() and update callers.
1032 - Use ntfs_clear_extent_inode() in fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_clear_inode()
1033 instead of ntfs_destroy_extent_inode().
1034 - Cleanup memory deallocations in {__,}ntfs_clear_{,big_}inode().
1035 - Make all operations on ntfs inode state bits use the NIno* functions.
1036 - Set up the new ntfs inode fields and state bits in
1037 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_inode() and add appropriate cleanup of
1038 allocated memory to __ntfs_clear_inode().
1039 - Cleanup ntfs_inode structure a bit for better ordering of elements
1040 w.r.t. their size to allow better packing of the structure in memory.
1041
10422.0.10 - There can only be 2^32 - 1 inodes on an NTFS volume.
1043
1044 - Add check at mount time to verify that the number of inodes on the
1045 volume does not exceed 2^32 - 1, which is the maximum allowed for
1046 NTFS according to Microsoft.
1047 - Change mft_no member of ntfs_inode structure to be unsigned long.
1048 Update all users. This makes ntfs_inode->mft_no just a copy of struct
1049 inode->i_ino. But we can't just always use struct inode->i_ino and
1050 remove mft_no because extent inodes do not have an attached struct
1051 inode.
1052
10532.0.9 - Decompression engine now uses a single buffer and other cleanups.
1054
1055 - Change decompression engine to use a single buffer protected by a
1056 spin lock instead of per-CPU buffers. (Rusty Russell)
1057 - Do not update cb_pos when handling a partial final page during
1058 decompression of a sparse compression block, as the value is later
1059 reset without being read/used. (Rusty Russell)
1060 - Switch to using the new KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ for atomic kmap()s. (Andrew
1061 Morton)
1062 - Change buffer size in ntfs_readdir()/ntfs_filldir() to use
1063 NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE which makes the buffers almost 1kiB each but
1064 it also makes everything safer so it is a good thing.
1065 - Miscellaneous minor cleanups to comments.
1066
10672.0.8 - Major updates for handling of case sensitivity and dcache aliasing.
1068
1069 Big thanks go to Al Viro and other inhabitants of #kernel for investing
1070 their time to discuss the case sensitivity and dcache aliasing issues.
1071
1072 - Remove unused source file fs/ntfs/attraops.c.
1073 - Remove show_inodes mount option(s), thus dropping support for
1074 displaying of short file names.
1075 - Remove deprecated mount option posix.
1076 - Restore show_sys_files mount option.
1077 - Add new mount option case_sensitive, to determine if the driver
1078 treats file names as case sensitive or not. If case sensitive, create
1079 file names in the POSIX namespace. Otherwise create file names in the
1080 LONG/WIN32 namespace. Note, files remain accessible via their short
1081 file name, if it exists.
1082 - Remove really dumb logic bug in boot sector recovery code.
1083 - Fix dcache aliasing issues wrt short/long file names via changes
1084 to fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() and
1085 fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup():
1086 - Add additional argument to ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() in which we
1087 return information about the matching file name if the case is not
1088 matching or the match is a short file name. See comments above the
1089 function definition for details.
1090 - Change ntfs_lookup() to only create dcache entries for the correctly
1091 cased file name and only for the WIN32 namespace counterpart of DOS
1092 namespace file names. This ensures we have only one dentry per
1093 directory and also removes all dcache aliasing issues between short
1094 and long file names once we add write support. See comments above
1095 function for details.
1096 - Fix potential 1 byte overflow in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_ucstonls().
1097
10982.0.7 - Minor cleanups and updates for changes in core kernel code.
1099
1100 - Remove much of the NULL struct element initializers.
1101 - Various updates to make compatible with recent kernels.
1102 - Remove defines of MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE and include linux/buffer_head.h
1103 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h instead.
1104 - Remove no longer needed KERNEL_VERSION checks. We are now in the
1105 kernel proper so they are no longer needed.
1106
11072.0.6 - Major bugfix to make compatible with other kernel changes.
1108
1109 - Initialize the mftbmp address space properly now that there are more
1110 fields in the struct address_space. This was leading to hangs and
1111 oopses on umount since 2.5.12 because of changes to other parts of
1112 the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space()
1113 function...
1114 - Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The
1115 only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_sem during
1116 the call, and i_sem is sufficient protection against changes in the
1117 directory inode (including ->i_size).
1118 - Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to
1119 default_llseek()) as this downs i_sem instead of the BKL which is
1120 what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we
1121 no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir().
1122
11232.0.5 - Major bugfix. Buffer overflow in extent inode handling.
1124
1125 - No need to set old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as the
1126 VFS does so via invocation of deactivate_super() calling
1127 fs->fill_super() calling block_kill_super() which does it.
1128 - BKL moved from VFS into dir.c::ntfs_readdir(). (Linus Torvalds)
1129 -> Do we really need it? I don't think so as we have exclusion on
1130 the directory ntfs_inode rw_semaphore mrec_lock. We mmight have to
1131 move the ->f_pos accesses under the mrec_lock though. Check this...
1132 - Fix really, really, really stupid buffer overflow in extent inode
1133 handling in mft.c::map_extent_mft_record().
1134
11352.0.4 - Cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.11.
1136
1137 - Add documentation on how to use the MD driver to be able to use NTFS
1138 stripe and volume sets in Linux and generally cleanup documentation
1139 a bit.
1140 Remove all uses of kdev_t in favour of struct block_device *:
1141 - Change compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() to use
1142 sb_getblk() instead of getblk().
1143 - Change super.c::ntfs_fill_super() to use bdev_hardsect_size() instead
1144 of get_hardsect_size().
1145 - No need to get old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as
1146 fs/super.c::get_sb_bdev() already does this.
1147 - Set bh->b_bdev instead of bh->b_dev throughout aops.c.
1148
11492.0.3 - Small bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements.
1150
1151 - Remove some dead code from mft.c.
1152 - Optimize readpage and read_block functions throughout aops.c so that
1153 only initialized blocks are read. Non-initialized ones have their
1154 buffer head mapped, zeroed, and set up to date, without scheduling
1155 any i/o. Thanks to Al Viro for advice on how to avoid the device i/o.
1156 Thanks go to Andrew Morton for spotting the below:
1157 - Fix buglet in allocate_compression_buffers() error code path.
1158 - Call flush_dcache_page() after modifying page cache page contents in
1159 ntfs_file_readpage().
1160 - Check for existence of page buffers throughout aops.c before calling
1161 create_empty_buffers(). This happens when an I/O error occurs and the
1162 read is retried. (It also happens once writing is implemented so that
1163 needed doing anyway but I had left it for later...)
1164 - Don't BUG_ON() uptodate and/or mapped buffers throughout aops.c in
1165 readpage and read_block functions. Reasoning same as above (i.e. I/O
1166 error retries and future write code paths.)
1167
11682.0.2 - Minor updates and cleanups.
1169
1170 - Cleanup: rename mst.c::__post_read_mst_fixup to post_write_mst_fixup
1171 and cleanup the code a bit, removing the unused size parameter.
1172 - Change default fmask to 0177 and update documentation.
1173 - Change attrib.c::get_attr_search_ctx() to return the search context
1174 directly instead of taking the address of a pointer. A return value
1175 of NULL means the allocation failed. Updated all callers
1176 appropriately.
1177 - Update to 2.5.9 kernel (preserving backwards compatibility) by
1178 replacing all occurences of page->buffers with page_buffers(page).
1179 - Fix minor bugs in runlist merging, also minor cleanup.
1180 - Updates to bootsector layout and mft mirror contents descriptions.
1181 - Small bug fix in error detection in unistr.c and some cleanups.
1182 - Grow name buffer allocations in unistr.c in aligned mutlipled of 64
1183 bytes.
1184
11852.0.1 - Minor updates.
1186
1187 - Make default umask correspond to documentation.
1188 - Improve documentation.
1189 - Set default mode to include execute bit. The {u,f,d}mask can be used
1190 to take it away if desired. This allows binaries to be executed from
1191 a mounted ntfs partition.
1192
11932.0.0 - New version number. Remove TNG from the name. Now in the kernel.
1194
1195 - Add kill_super, just keeping up with the vfs changes in the kernel.
1196 - Repeat some changes from tng-0.0.8 that somehow got lost on the way
1197 from the CVS import into BitKeeper.
1198 - Begin to implement proper handling of allocated_size vs
1199 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size). Done are
1200 mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage(), aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async(),
1201 and attrib.c::load_attribute_list().
1202 - Lock the runlist in attrib.c::load_attribute_list() while using it.
1203 - Fix memory leak in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() and generally
1204 clean up compress.c a little, removing some uncommented/unused debug
1205 code.
1206 - Tidy up dir.c a little bit.
1207 - Don't bother getting the runlist in inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1208 - Merge mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage() and aops.c::ntfs_index_readpage()
1209 creating aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage(), improving the handling of
1210 holes and overflow in the process and implementing the correct
1211 equivalent of ntfs_file_get_block() in ntfs_mst_readpage() itself.
1212 I am aiming for correctness at the moment. Modularisation can come
1213 later.
1214 - Rename aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async() to
1215 end_buffer_read_mst_async() and optimize the overflow checking and
1216 handling.
1217 - Use the host of the mftbmp address space mapping to hold the ntfs
1218 volume. This is needed so the async i/o completion handler can
1219 retrieve a pointer to the volume. Hopefully this will not cause
1220 problems elsewhere in the kernel... Otherwise will need to use a
1221 fake inode.
1222 - Complete implementation of proper handling of allocated_size vs
1223 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size) in whole driver.
1224 Basically aops.c is now completely rewritten.
1225 - Change NTFS driver name to just NTFS and set version number to 2.0.0
1226 to make a clear distinction from the old driver which is still on
1227 version 1.1.22.
1228
1229tng-0.0.8 - 08/03/2002 - Now using BitKeeper, http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/
1230
1231 - Replace bdevname(sb->s_dev) with sb->s_id.
1232 - Remove now superfluous new-line characters in all callers of
1233 ntfs_debug().
1234 - Apply kludge in ntfs_read_inode(), setting i_nlink to 1 for
1235 directories. Without this the "find" utility gets very upset which is
1236 fair enough as Linux/Unix do not support directory hard links.
1237 - Further runlist merging work. (Richard Russon)
1238 - Backwards compatibility for gcc-2.95. (Richard Russon)
1239 - Update to kernel 2.5.5-pre1 and rediff the now tiny patch.
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001240 - Convert to new filesystem declaration using ->ntfs_get_sb() and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001241 replacing ntfs_read_super() with ntfs_fill_super().
1242 - Set s_maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to avoid page cache page index
1243 overflow on 32-bit architectures.
1244 - Cleanup upcase loading code to use ntfs_(un)map_page().
1245 - Disable/reenable preemtion in critical sections of compession engine.
1246 - Replace device size determination in ntfs_fill_super() with
1247 sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_size (in bytes) and remove now superfluous
1248 function super.c::get_nr_blocks().
1249 - Implement a mount time option (show_inodes) allowing choice of which
1250 types of inode names readdir() returns and modify ntfs_filldir()
1251 accordingly. There are several parameters to show_inodes:
1252 system: system files
1253 win32: long file names (including POSIX file names) [DEFAULT]
1254 long: same as win32
1255 dos: short file names only (excluding POSIX file names)
1256 short: same as dos
1257 posix: same as both win32 and dos
1258 all: all file names
1259 Note that the options are additive, i.e. specifying:
1260 -o show_inodes=system,show_inodes=win32,show_inodes=dos
1261 is the same as specifying:
1262 -o show_inodes=all
1263 Note that the "posix" and "all" options will show all directory
1264 names, BUT the link count on each directory inode entry is set to 1,
1265 due to Linux not supporting directory hard links. This may well
1266 confuse some userspace applications, since the directory names will
1267 have the same inode numbers. Thus it is NOT advisable to use the
1268 "posix" or "all" options. We provide them only for completeness sake.
1269 - Add copies of allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size to
1270 the ntfs inode structure and set them up in
1271 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). These reflect the unnamed data attribute
1272 for files and the index allocation attribute for directories.
1273 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs inode for
1274 $BITMAP attribute of large directories and set them up in
1275 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1276 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs volume for
1277 $BITMAP attribute of $MFT and set them up in
1278 super.c::load_system_files().
1279 - Parse deprecated ntfs driver options (iocharset, show_sys_files,
1280 posix, and utf8) and tell user what the new options to use are. Note
1281 we still do support them but they will be removed with kernel 2.7.x.
1282 - Change all occurences of integer long long printf formatting to hex
1283 as printk() will not support long long integer format if/when the
1284 div64 patch goes into the kernel.
1285 - Make slab caches have stable names and change the names to what they
1286 were intended to be. These changes are required/made possible by the
1287 new slab cache name handling which removes the length limitation by
1288 requiring the caller of kmem_cache_create() to supply a stable name
1289 which is then referenced but not copied.
1290 - Rename run_list structure to run_list_element and create a new
1291 run_list structure containing a pointer to a run_list_element
1292 structure and a read/write semaphore. Adapt all users of runlists
1293 to new scheme and take and release the lock as needed. This fixes a
1294 nasty race as the run_list changes even when inodes are locked for
1295 reading and even when the inode isn't locked at all, so we really
1296 needed the serialization. We use a semaphore rather than a spinlock
1297 as memory allocations can sleep and doing everything GFP_ATOMIC
1298 would be silly.
1299 - Cleanup read_inode() removing all code checking for lowest_vcn != 0.
1300 This can never happen due to the nature of lookup_attr() and how we
1301 support attribute lists. If it did happen it would imply the inode
1302 being corrupt.
1303 - Check for lowest_vcn != 0 in ntfs_read_inode() and mark the inode as
1304 bad if found.
1305 - Update to 2.5.6-pre2 changes in struct address_space.
1306 - Use parent_ino() when accessing d_parent inode number in dir.c.
1307 - Import Sourceforge CVS repository into BitKeeper repository:
1308 http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-tng-2.5
1309 - Update fs/Makefile, fs/Config.help, fs/Config.in, and
1310 Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for NTFS TNG.
1311 - Create kernel configuration option controlling whether debugging
1312 is enabled or not.
1313 - Add the required export of end_buffer_io_sync() from the patches
1314 directory to the kernel code.
1315 - Update inode.c::ntfs_show_options() with show_inodes mount option.
1316 - Update errors mount option.
1317
1318tng-0.0.7 - 13/02/2002 - The driver is now feature complete for read-only!
1319
1320 - Cleanup mft.c and it's debug/error output in particular. Fix a minor
1321 bug in mapping of extent inodes. Update all the comments to fit all
1322 the recent code changes.
1323 - Modify vcn_to_lcn() to cope with entirely unmapped runlists.
1324 - Cleanups in compress.c, mostly comments and folding help.
1325 - Implement attrib.c::map_run_list() as a generic helper.
1326 - Make compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() use map_run_list()
1327 thus making code shorter and enabling attribute list support.
1328 - Cleanup incorrect use of [su]64 with %L printf format specifier in
1329 all source files. Type casts to [unsigned] long long added to correct
1330 the mismatches (important for architectures which have long long not
1331 being 64 bits).
1332 - Merge async io completion handlers for directory indexes and $MFT
1333 data into one by setting the index_block_size{_bits} of the ntfs
1334 inode for $MFT to the mft_record_size{_bits} of the ntfs_volume.
1335 - Cleanup aops.c, update comments.
1336 - Make ntfs_file_get_block() use map_run_list() so all files now
1337 support attribute lists.
1338 - Make ntfs_dir_readpage() almost verbatim copy of
1339 block_read_full_page() by using ntfs_file_get_block() with only real
1340 difference being the use of our own async io completion handler
1341 rather than the default one, thus reducing the amount of code and
1342 automatically enabling attribute list support for directory indices.
1343 - Fix bug in load_attribute_list() - forgot to call brelse in error
1344 code path.
1345 - Change parameters to find_attr() and lookup_attr(). We no longer
1346 pass in the upcase table and its length. These can be gotten from
1347 ctx->ntfs_ino->vol->upcase{_len}. Update all callers.
1348 - Cleanups in attrib.c.
1349 - Implement merging of runlists, attrib.c::merge_run_lists() and its
1350 helpers. (Richard Russon)
1351 - Attribute lists part 2, attribute extents and multi part runlists:
1352 enable proper support for LCN_RL_NOT_MAPPED and automatic mapping of
1353 further runlist parts via attrib.c::map_run_list().
1354 - Tiny endianness bug fix in decompress_mapping_pairs().
1355
1356tng-0.0.6 - Encrypted directories, bug fixes, cleanups, debugging enhancements.
1357
1358 - Enable encrypted directories. (Their index root is marked encrypted
1359 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1360 encrypted.)
1361 - Fix bug in NInoBmpNonResident() macro. (Cut and paste error.)
1362 - Enable $Extend system directory. Most (if not all) extended system
1363 files do not have unnamed data attributes so ntfs_read_inode() had to
1364 special case them but that is ok, as the special casing recovery
1365 happens inside an error code path so there is zero slow down in the
1366 normal fast path. The special casing is done by introducing a new
1367 function inode.c::ntfs_is_extended_system_file() which checks if any
1368 of the hard links in the inode point to $Extend as being their parent
1369 directory and if they do we assume this is an extended system file.
1370 - Create a sysctl/proc interface to allow {dis,en}abling of debug output
1371 when compiled with -DDEBUG. Default is debug messages to be disabled.
1372 To enable them, one writes a non-zero value to /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
1373 (if /proc is enabled) or uses sysctl(2) to effect the same (if sysctl
1374 interface is enabled). Inspired by old ntfs driver.
1375 - Add debug_msgs insmod/kernel boot parameter to set whether debug
1376 messages are {dis,en}abled. This is useful to enable debug messages
1377 during ntfs initialization and is the only way to activate debugging
1378 when the sysctl interface is not enabled.
1379 - Cleanup debug output in various places.
1380 - Remove all dollar signs ($) from the source (except comments) to
1381 enable compilation on architectures whose gcc compiler does not
1382 support dollar signs in the names of variables/constants. Attribute
1383 types now start with AT_ instead of $ and $I30 is now just I30.
1384 - Cleanup ntfs_lookup() and add consistency check of sequence numbers.
1385 - Load complete runlist for $MFT/$BITMAP during mount and cleanup
1386 access functions. This means we now cope with $MFT/$BITMAP being
1387 spread accross several mft records.
1388 - Disable modification of mft_zone_multiplier on remount. We can always
1389 reenable this later on if we really want to, but we will need to make
1390 sure we readjust the mft_zone size / layout accordingly.
1391
1392tng-0.0.5 - Modernize for 2.5.x and further in line-ing with Al Viro's comments.
1393
1394 - Use sb_set_blocksize() instead of set_blocksize() and verify the
1395 return value.
1396 - Use sb_bread() instead of bread() throughout.
1397 - Add index_vcn_size{_bits} to ntfs_inode structure to store the size
1398 of a directory index block vcn. Apply resulting simplifications in
1399 dir.c everywhere.
1400 - Fix a small bug somewhere (but forgot what it was).
1401 - Change ntfs_{debug,error,warning} to enable gcc to do type checking
1402 on the printf-format parameter list and fix bugs reported by gcc
1403 as a result. (Richard Russon)
1404 - Move inode allocation strategy to Al's new stuff but maintain the
1405 divorce of ntfs_inode from struct inode. To achieve this we have two
1406 separate slab caches, one for big ntfs inodes containing a struct
1407 inode and pure ntfs inodes and at the same time fix some faulty
1408 error code paths in ntfs_read_inode().
1409 - Show mount options in proc (inode.c::ntfs_show_options()).
1410
1411tng-0.0.4 - Big changes, getting in line with Al Viro's comments.
1412
1413 - Modified (un)map_mft_record functions to be common for read and write
1414 case. To specify which is which, added extra parameter at front of
1415 parameter list. Pass either READ or WRITE to this, each has the
1416 obvious meaning.
1417 - General cleanups to allow for easier folding in vi.
1418 - attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() now accepts the old runlist
1419 argument, and invokes attrib.c::merge_run_lists() to merge the old
1420 and the new runlists.
1421 - Removed attrib.c::find_first_attr().
1422 - Implemented loading of attribute list and complete runlist for $MFT.
1423 This means we now cope with $MFT being spread across several mft
1424 records.
1425 - Adapt to 2.5.2-pre9 and the changed create_empty_buffers() syntax.
1426 - Adapt major/minor/kdev_t/[bk]devname stuff to new 2.5.x kernels.
1427 - Make ntfs_volume be allocated via kmalloc() instead of using a slab
1428 cache. There are too little ntfs_volume structures at any one time
1429 to justify a private slab cache.
1430 - Fix bogus kmap() use in async io completion. Now use kmap_atomic().
1431 Use KM_BIO_IRQ on advice from IRC/kernel...
1432 - Use ntfs_map_page() in map_mft_record() and create ->readpage method
1433 for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated
1434 address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also
1435 removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch.
1436 - Fix a bug where kfree() was used insted of ntfs_free().
1437 - Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of
1438 vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers.
1439 - Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode.
1440 - Add mft record number and sequence number to ntfs_inode. Stop using
1441 i_ino and i_generation for in-driver purposes.
1442 - Implement attrib.c::merge_run_lists(). (Richard Russon)
1443 - Remove use of proper inodes by extent inodes. Move i_ino and
1444 i_generation to ntfs_inode to do this. Apply simplifications that
1445 result and remove iget_no_wait(), etc.
1446 - Pass ntfs_inode everywhere in the driver (used to be struct inode).
1447 - Add reference counting in ntfs_inode for the ntfs inode itself and
1448 for the mapped mft record.
1449 - Extend mft record mapping so we can (un)map extent mft records (new
1450 functions (un)map_extent_mft_record), and so mappings are reference
1451 counted and don't have to happen twice if already mapped - just ref
1452 count increases.
1453 - Add -o iocharset as alias to -o nls for backwards compatibility.
1454 - The latest core patch is now tiny. In fact just a single additional
1455 export is necessary over the base kernel.
1456
1457tng-0.0.3 - Cleanups, enhancements, bug fixes.
1458
1459 - Work on attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() to detect base extents
1460 and setup the runlist appropriately using knowledge provided by the
1461 sizes in the base attribute record.
1462 - Balance the get_/put_attr_search_ctx() calls so we don't leak memory
1463 any more.
1464 - Introduce ntfs_malloc_nofs() and ntfs_free() to allocate/free a single
1465 page or use vmalloc depending on the amount of memory requested.
1466 - Cleanup error output. The __FUNCTION__ "(): " is now added
1467 automatically. Introduced a new header file debug.h to support this
1468 and also moved ntfs_debug() function into it.
1469 - Make reading of compressed files more intelligent and especially get
1470 rid of the vmalloc_nofs() from readpage(). This now uses per CPU
1471 buffers (allocated at first mount with cluster size <= 4kiB and
1472 deallocated on last umount with cluster size <= 4kiB), and
1473 asynchronous io for the compressed data using a list of buffer heads.
1474 Er, we use synchronous io as async io only works on whole pages
1475 covered by buffers and not on individual buffer heads...
1476 - Bug fix for reading compressed files with sparse compression blocks.
1477
1478tng-0.0.2 - Now handles larger/fragmented/compressed volumes/files/dirs.
1479
1480 - Fixed handling of directories when cluster size exceeds index block
1481 size.
1482 - Hide DOS only name space directory entries from readdir() but allow
1483 them in lookup(). This should fix the problem that Linux doesn't
1484 support directory hard links, while still allowing access to entries
1485 via their short file name. This also has the benefit of mimicking
1486 what Windows users are used to, so it is the ideal solution.
1487 - Implemented sync_page everywhere so no more hangs in D state when
1488 waiting for a page.
1489 - Stop using bforget() in favour of brelse().
1490 - Stop locking buffers unnecessarily.
1491 - Implemented compressed files (inode->mapping contains uncompressed
1492 data, raw compressed data is currently bread() into a vmalloc()ed
1493 memory buffer).
1494 - Enable compressed directories. (Their index root is marked compressed
1495 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1496 compressed.)
1497 - Use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in the ntfs_error and ntfs_warning
1498 functions. (Thanks to Will Dyson for pointing this out.)
1499 - Moved the ntfs_inode and ntfs_volume (the former ntfs_inode_info and
1500 ntfs_sb_info) out of the common inode and super_block structures and
1501 started using the generic_ip and generic_sbp pointers instead. This
1502 makes ntfs entirely private with respect to the kernel tree.
1503 - Detect compiler version and abort with error message if gcc less than
1504 2.96 is used.
1505 - Fix bug in name comparison function in unistr.c.
1506 - Implement attribute lists part 1, the infrastructure: search contexts
1507 and operations, find_external_attr(), lookup_attr()) and make the
1508 code use the infrastructure.
1509 - Fix stupid buffer overflow bug that became apparent on larger run
1510 list containing attributes.
1511 - Fix bugs in readdir() that became apparent on larger directories.
1512
1513 The driver is now really useful and survives the test
1514 find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
1515 without any error messages on a over 1GiB sized partition with >16k
1516 files on it, including compressed files and directories and many files
1517 and directories with attribute lists.
1518
1519tng-0.0.1 - The first useful version.
1520
1521 - Added ntfs_lookup().
1522 - Added default upcase generation and handling.
1523 - Added compile options to be shown on module init.
1524 - Many bug fixes that were "hidden" before.
1525 - Update to latest kernel.
1526 - Added ntfs_readdir().
1527 - Added file operations for mmap(), read(), open() and llseek(). We just
1528 use the generic ones. The whole point of going through implementing
1529 readpage() methods and where possible get_block() call backs is that
1530 this allows us to make use of the generic high level methods provided
1531 by the kernel.
1532
1533 The driver is now actually useful! Yey. (-: It undoubtedly has got bugs
1534 though and it doesn't implement accesssing compressed files yet. Also,
1535 accessing files with attribute list attributes is not implemented yet
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001536 either. But for small or simple filesystems it should work and allow
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001537 you to list directories, use stat on directory entries and the file
1538 system, open, read, mmap and llseek around in files. A big mile stone
1539 has been reached!
1540
1541tng-0.0.0 - Initial version tag.
1542
1543 Initial driver implementation. The driver can mount and umount simple
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001544 NTFS filesystems (i.e. ones without attribute lists in the system
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001545 files). If the mount fails there might be problems in the error handling
1546 code paths, so be warned. Otherwise it seems to be loading the system
1547 files nicely and the mft record read mapping/unmapping seems to be
1548 working nicely, too. Proof of inode metadata in the page cache and non-
1549 resident file unnamed stream data in the page cache concepts is thus
1550 complete.