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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001ToDo/Notes:
2 - Find and fix bugs.
3 - Checkpoint or disable the user space journal ($UsnJrnl).
4 - In between ntfs_prepare/commit_write, need exclusion between
Anton Altaparmakov66129f82004-11-11 12:34:00 +00005 simultaneous file extensions. This is given to us by holding i_sem
6 on the inode. The only places in the kernel when a file is resized
7 are prepare/commit write and truncate for both of which i_sem is
8 held. Just have to be careful in readpage/writepage and all other
9 helpers not running under i_sem that we play nice...
10 Also need to be careful with initialized_size extention in
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070011 ntfs_prepare_write. Basically, just be _very_ careful in this code...
Anton Altaparmakov66129f82004-11-11 12:34:00 +000012 UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are read/writepage
13 which do not hold i_sem. Note writepage cannot change i_size but it
14 needs to cope with a concurrent i_size change, just like readpage.
15 Also both need to cope with concurrent changes to the other sizes,
16 i.e. initialized/allocated/compressed size, as well.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070017 - Implement mft.c::sync_mft_mirror_umount(). We currently will just
18 leave the volume dirty on umount if the final iput(vol->mft_ino)
19 causes a write of any mirrored mft records due to the mft mirror
20 inode having been discarded already. Whether this can actually ever
21 happen is unclear however so it is worth waiting until someone hits
22 the problem.
23 - Enable the code for setting the NT4 compatibility flag when we start
24 making NTFS 1.2 specific modifications.
25
262.1.23-WIP
27
28 - Add printk rate limiting for ntfs_warning() and ntfs_error() when
29 compiled without debug. This avoids a possible denial of service
30 attack. Thanks to Carl-Daniel Hailfinger from SuSE for pointing this
31 out.
Anton Altaparmakovda284382004-11-11 11:18:10 +000032 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_set().
Anton Altaparmakov66129f82004-11-11 12:34:00 +000033 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_{check,empty}_logfile().
Anton Altaparmakovdb30d162004-11-11 12:42:00 +000034 - Use i_size_read() once and then use the cached value in
35 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_alloc().
Anton Altaparmakovd4b9ba72004-11-17 15:45:08 +000036 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open().
Anton Altaparmakov36763672004-11-18 13:46:45 +000037 - Add size_lock to the ntfs_inode structure. This is an rw spinlock
38 and it locks against access to the inode sizes. Note, ->size_lock
39 is also accessed from irq context so you must use the _irqsave and
40 _irqrestore lock and unlock functions, respectively.
41 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/compress.c at the start of the read and
42 use the cached value afterwards. Cache the initialized_size in the
43 same way and protect access to the two sizes using the size_lock.
Anton Altaparmakov206f9f32004-11-18 15:01:06 +000044 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/dir.c once and then use the cached
45 value afterwards.
Anton Altaparmakov218357f2004-11-18 20:34:59 +000046 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/super.c once and then use the cached
47 value afterwards. Cache the initialized_size in the same way and
48 protect access to the two sizes using the size_lock.
49 - Minor optimization to fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() and its helpers.
Anton Altaparmakovf50f3ac2004-11-19 22:16:00 +000050 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/inode.c once and then use the cached
51 value afterwards when reading the size of the bitmap inode.
Anton Altaparmakov07a4e2d2005-01-12 13:08:26 +000052 - Use i_size_{read,write}() in fs/ntfs/{aops.c,mft.c} and protect
53 access to the i_size and other size fields using the size_lock.
Anton Altaparmakov946929d2005-01-13 15:26:29 +000054 - Implement extension of resident files in the regular file write code
55 paths (fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{prepare,commit}_write()). At present
56 this only works until the data attribute becomes too big for the mft
57 record after which we abort the write returning -EOPNOTSUPP from
58 ntfs_prepare_write().
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +000059 - Add disable_sparse mount option together with a per volume sparse
60 enable bit which is set appropriately and a per inode sparse disable
61 bit which is preset on some system file inodes as appropriate.
62 - Enforce that sparse support is disabled on NTFS volumes pre 3.0.
Anton Altaparmakov1a0df152005-02-03 12:04:36 +000063 - Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() in
64 the creation of the unmapped runlist element for the base attribute
65 extent.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070066
672.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
68
69 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate().
70 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to return an error code
71 instead of void and provide a helper ntfs_truncate_vfs() for the
72 vfs ->truncate method.
73 - Add a new ntfs inode flag NInoTruncateFailed() and modify
74 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to set and clear it appropriately.
75 - Fix min_size and max_size definitions in ATTR_DEF structure in
76 fs/ntfs/layout.h to be signed.
77 - Add attribute definition handling helpers to fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]:
78 ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check(), ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident(), and
79 ntfs_attr_can_be_resident(), which in turn use the new private helper
80 ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef().
81 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty(), take the
82 mapping->private_lock around the dirtying of the buffer heads
83 analagous to the way it is done in __set_page_dirty_buffers().
84 - Ensure the mft record size does not exceed the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at
85 mount time as this cannot work with the current implementation.
86 - Check for location of attribute name and improve error handling in
87 general in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() and friends.
88 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage(), if the page is fully outside
89 i_size, i.e. race with truncate, invalidate the buffers on the page
90 so that they become freeable and hence the page does not leak.
91 - Remove unused function fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_merge(). (Adrian
92 Bunk)
93 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_find() that resulted in
94 a NULL pointer dereference in the error code path when a corrupt
95 attribute was found. (Thanks to Domen Puncer for the bug report.)
96 - Add MODULE_VERSION() to fs/ntfs/super.c.
97 - Make several functions and variables static. (Adrian Bunk)
98 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() so it allocates
99 buffers for the page if they are not present and then marks the
100 buffers belonging to the ntfs record dirty. This causes the buffers
101 to become busy and hence they are safe from removal until the page
102 has been written out.
103 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find() in the
104 error handling code path that resulted in a BUG() due to trying to
105 unmap an extent mft record when the mapping of it had failed and it
106 thus was not mapped. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for the bug report.)
107 - Drop the runlist lock after the vcn has been read in
108 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::__ntfs_cluster_free().
109 - Rewrite handling of multi sector transfer errors. We now do not set
110 PageError() when such errors are detected in the async i/o handler
111 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(). All users of mst
112 protected attributes now check the magic of each ntfs record as they
113 use it and act appropriately. This has the effect of making errors
114 granular per ntfs record rather than per page which solves the case
115 where we cannot access any of the ntfs records in a page when a
116 single one of them had an mst error. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for
117 the bug report.)
118 - Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date()
119 where we failed to release i_sem on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode.
120 - Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
121 - Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e.
122 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(),
123 and write_mft_record_nolock(). From now on we require that the
124 complete runlist for the mft mirror is always mapped into memory.
125 - Add creation of buffers to fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
126 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block().
127 - Cleanup fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page() since we know that a
128 resident attribute will be smaller than a page which makes the code
129 simpler. Also make the code more tolerant to concurrent ->truncate.
130
1312.1.21 - Fix some races and bugs, rewrite mft write code, add mft allocator.
132
133 - Implement extent mft record deallocation
134 fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_extent_mft_record_free().
135 - Splitt runlist related functions off from attrib.[hc] to runlist.[hc].
136 - Add vol->mft_data_pos and initialize it at mount time.
137 - Rename init_runlist() to ntfs_init_runlist(), ntfs_vcn_to_lcn() to
138 ntfs_rl_vcn_to_lcn(), decompress_mapping_pairs() to
139 ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(), ntfs_merge_runlists() to
140 ntfs_runlists_merge() and adapt all callers.
141 - Add fs/ntfs/runlist.[hc]::ntfs_get_nr_significant_bytes(),
142 ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs(), ntfs_write_significant_bytes(),
143 and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build(), adapted from libntfs.
144 - Make fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() not
145 static and add a declaration for it to lcnalloc.h.
146 - Add fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.h::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl() which is a static
147 inline wrapper for ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() which takes the
148 cluster bitmap lock for the duration of the call.
149 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_record_resize().
150 - Implement the equivalent of memset() for an ntfs attribute in
151 fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_set() and switch
152 fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_empty_logfile() to using it.
153 - Remove unnecessary casts from LCN_* constants.
154 - Implement fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock().
155 - Add MFT_RECORD_OLD as a copy of MFT_RECORD in fs/ntfs/layout.h and
156 change MFT_RECORD to contain the NTFS 3.1+ specific fields.
157 - Add a helper function fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which
158 marks all buffers belonging to an ntfs record dirty, followed by
159 marking the page the ntfs record is in dirty and also marking the vfs
160 inode containing the ntfs record dirty (I_DIRTY_PAGES).
161 - Switch fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to using the
162 new helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and remove the no
163 longer needed fs/ntfs/index.[hc]::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty().
164 - Move ntfs_{un,}map_page() from ntfs.h to aops.h and fix resulting
165 include errors.
166 - Move the typedefs for runlist_element and runlist from types.h to
167 runlist.h and fix resulting include errors.
168 - Remove unused {__,}format_mft_record() from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
169 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::__mark_mft_record_dirty() to use the helper
170 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which also changes the behaviour in that we
171 now set the buffers belonging to the mft record dirty as well as the
172 page itself.
173 - Update fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and sync_mft_mirror()
174 to cope with the fact that there now are dirty buffers in mft pages.
175 - Update fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode() to also use the helper
176 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and thus to set the buffers belonging to the
177 mft record dirty as well as the page itself.
178 - Fix compiler warnings on x86-64 in fs/ntfs/dir.c. (Randy Dunlap,
179 slightly modified by me)
180 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record() which fails with -EALREADY if
181 the mft record is already locked and otherwise behaves the same way
182 as fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_mft_record().
183 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() so that it only
184 writes the mft record if the buffers belonging to it are dirty.
185 Otherwise we assume that it was written out by other means already.
186 - Attempting to write outside initialized size is _not_ a bug so remove
187 the bug check from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(). It is in
188 fact required to write outside initialized size when preparing to
189 extend the initialized size.
190 - Map the page instead of using page_address() before writing to it in
191 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mft_writepage().
192 - Provide exclusion between opening an inode / mapping an mft record
193 and accessing the mft record in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage()
194 by setting the page not uptodate throughout ntfs_mft_writepage().
195 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block()
196 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
197 - Add the helper fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_may_write_mft_record() which
198 checks if an mft record may be written out safely obtaining any
199 necessary locks in the process. This is used by
200 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block().
201 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to also work for
202 writing mft records and improve its error handling in the process.
203 Now if any of the records in the page fail to be written out, all
204 other records will be written out instead of aborting completely.
205 - Remove ntfs_mft_aops and update all users to use ntfs_mst_aops.
206 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to set the
207 ntfs_mst_aops for all inodes which are NInoMstProtected() and
208 ntfs_aops for all other inodes.
209 - Rename fs/ntfs/mft.c::sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() to
210 ntfs_sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() and change their parameters so they
211 no longer require an ntfs inode to be present. Update all callers.
212 - Cleanup the error handling in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
213 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror()
214 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
215 - Remove the no longer needed fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() and
216 fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record().
217 - Fix callers of fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to call it
218 with the ntfs inode which contains the page rather than the ntfs
219 inode the mft record of which is in the page.
220 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by moving the
221 index inode bitmap inode release code from there to
222 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_clear_big_inode(). (Thanks to Christoph
223 Hellwig for spotting this.)
224 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by taking the
225 inode semaphore around the code that sets ni->itype.index.bmp_ino to
226 NULL and reorganize the code to optimize it a bit. (Thanks to
227 Christoph Hellwig for spotting this.)
228 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to no longer take the
229 ntfs inode as a parameter as this is confusing and misleading and the
230 needed ntfs inode is available via NTFS_I(page->mapping->host).
231 Adapt all callers to this change.
232 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and
233 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to only check the dirty state
234 of the first buffer in a record and to take this as the ntfs record
235 dirty state. We cannot look at the dirty state for subsequent
236 buffers because we might be racing with
237 fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty().
238 - Move the static inline ntfs_init_big_inode() from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
239 inode.h and make fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_init_inode() non-static and
240 add a declaration for it to inode.h. Fix some compilation issues
241 that resulted due to #includes and header file interdependencies.
242 - Simplify setup of i_mode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode().
243 - Add helpers fs/ntfs/layout.h::MK_MREF() and MK_LE_MREF().
244 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() to only verify the mft
245 record sequence number if it is specified (i.e. not zero).
246 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_alloc() and various helper
247 functions used by it.
248 - Update Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt with instructions on how to
249 use the Device-Mapper driver with NTFS ftdisk/LDM raid. This removes
250 the linear raid problem with the Software RAID / MD driver when one
251 or more of the devices has an odd number of sectors.
252
2532.1.20 - Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release.
254
255 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx()
256 where we did not clear ctx->al_entry but it was still set due to
257 changes in ntfs_attr_lookup() and ntfs_external_attr_find() in
258 particular.
259 - Fix another stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find()
260 where we forgot to unmap the extent mft record when we had finished
261 enumerating an attribute which caused a bug check to trigger when the
262 VFS calls ->clear_inode.
263
2642.1.19 - Many cleanups, improvements, and a minor bug fix.
265
266 - Update ->setattr (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) to refuse to
267 change the uid, gid, and mode of an inode as we do not support NTFS
268 ACLs yet.
269 - Remove BKL use from ntfs_setattr() syncing up with the rest of the
270 kernel.
271 - Get rid of the ugly transparent union in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir()
272 and ntfs_filldir() as per suggestion from Al Viro.
273 - Change '\0' and L'\0' to simply 0 as per advice from Linus Torvalds.
274 - Update ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) to check if the
275 inode size has changed and to only output an error if so.
276 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.h::attribute_value_length() to ntfs_attr_size().
277 - Add le{16,32,64} as well as sle{16,32,64} data types to
278 fs/ntfs/types.h.
279 - Change ntfschar to be le16 instead of u16 in fs/ntfs/types.h.
280 - Add le versions of VCN, LCN, and LSN called leVCN, leLCN, and leLSN,
281 respectively, to fs/ntfs/types.h.
282 - Update endianness conversion macros in fs/ntfs/endian.h to use the
283 new types as appropriate.
284 - Do proper type casting when using sle64_to_cpup() in fs/ntfs/dir.c
285 and index.c.
286 - Add leMFT_REF data type to fs/ntfs/layout.h.
287 - Update all NTFS header files with the new little endian data types.
288 Affected files are fs/ntfs/layout.h, logfile.h, and time.h.
289 - Do proper type casting when using ntfs_is_*_recordp() in
290 fs/ntfs/logfile.c, mft.c, and super.c.
291 - Fix all the sparse bitwise warnings. Had to change all the typedef
292 enums storing little endian values to simple enums plus a typedef for
293 the datatype to make sparse happy.
294 - Fix a bug found by the new sparse bitwise warnings where the default
295 upcase table was defined as a pointer to wchar_t rather than ntfschar
296 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h and super.c.
297 - Change {const_,}cpu_to_le{16,32}(0) to just 0 as suggested by Al Viro.
298
2992.1.18 - Fix scheduling latencies at mount time as well as an endianness bug.
300
301 - Remove vol->nr_mft_records as it was pretty meaningless and optimize
302 the calculation of total/free inodes as used by statfs().
303 - Fix scheduling latencies in ntfs_fill_super() by dropping the BKL
304 because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock semaphore which
305 provides safe locking. (Ingo Molnar)
306 - Fix a potential bug in fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() that
307 could occur in the future for when we start closing/freeing extent
308 inodes if we don't set base_ni->ext.extent_ntfs_inos to NULL after
309 we free it.
310 - Rename {find,lookup}_attr() to ntfs_attr_{find,lookup}() as well as
311 find_external_attr() to ntfs_external_attr_find() to cleanup the
312 namespace a bit and to be more consistent with libntfs.
313 - Rename {{re,}init,get,put}_attr_search_ctx() to
314 ntfs_attr_{{re,}init,get,put}_search_ctx() as well as the type
315 attr_search_context to ntfs_attr_search_ctx.
316 - Force use of ntfs_attr_find() in ntfs_attr_lookup() when searching
317 for the attribute list attribute itself.
318 - Fix endianness bug in ntfs_external_attr_find().
319 - Change ntfs_{external_,}attr_find() to return 0 on success, -ENOENT
320 if the attribute is not found, and -EIO on real error. In the case
321 of -ENOENT, the search context is updated to describe the attribute
322 before which the attribute being searched for would need to be
323 inserted if such an action were to be desired and in the case of
324 ntfs_external_attr_find() the search context is also updated to
325 indicate the attribute list entry before which the attribute list
326 entry of the attribute being searched for would need to be inserted
327 if such an action were to be desired. Also make ntfs_find_attr()
328 static and remove its prototype from attrib.h as it is not used
329 anywhere other than attrib.c. Update ntfs_attr_lookup() and all
330 callers of ntfs_{external,}attr_{find,lookup}() for the new return
331 values.
332 - Minor cleanup of fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_init_locked_inode().
333
3342.1.17 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths and other updates.
335
336 - Implement bitmap modification code (fs/ntfs/bitmap.[hc]). This
337 includes functions to set/clear a single bit or a run of bits.
338 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_find_vcn() which returns the locked
339 runlist element containing a particular vcn. It also takes care of
340 mapping any needed runlist fragments.
341 - Implement cluster (de-)allocation code (fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.[hc]).
342 - Load attribute definition table from $AttrDef at mount time.
343 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths involving (de)allocation of
344 the default and volume upcase tables.
345 - Remove ntfs_nr_mounts as it is no longer used.
346
3472.1.16 - Implement access time updates, file sync, async io, and read/writev.
348
349 - Add support for readv/writev and aio_read/aio_write (fs/ntfs/file.c).
350 This is done by setting the appropriate file operations pointers to
351 the generic helper functions provided by mm/filemap.c.
352 - Implement fsync, fdatasync, and msync both for files (fs/ntfs/file.c)
353 and directories (fs/ntfs/dir.c).
354 - Add support for {a,m,c}time updates to inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().
355 Note, except for the root directory and any other system files opened
356 by the user, the system files will not have their access times
357 updated as they are only accessed at the inode level an hence the
358 file level functions which cause the times to be updated are never
359 invoked.
360
3612.1.15 - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
362
363 - Add new element itype.index.collation_rule to the ntfs inode
364 structure and set it appropriately in ntfs_read_locked_inode().
365 - Implement a new inode type "index" to allow efficient access to the
366 indices found in various system files and adapt inode handling
367 accordingly (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]). An index inode is essentially an
368 attribute inode (NInoAttr() is true) with an attribute type of
369 AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION. As such, it is no longer allowed to call
370 ntfs_attr_iget() with an attribute type of AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION as
371 there would be no way to distinguish between normal attribute inodes
372 and index inodes. The function to obtain an index inode is
373 ntfs_index_iget() and it uses the helper function
374 ntfs_read_locked_index_inode(). Note, we do not overload
375 ntfs_attr_iget() as indices consist of multiple attributes so using
376 ntfs_attr_iget() to obtain an index inode would be confusing.
377 - Ensure that there is no overflow when doing page->index <<
378 PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT by casting page->index to s64 in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
379 - Use atomic kmap instead of kmap() in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page()
380 and ntfs_read_block().
381 - Use case sensitive attribute lookups instead of case insensitive ones.
382 - Lock all page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes while
383 accessing them to ensure we never see corrupt data while the page is
384 under writeout.
385 - Add framework for generic ntfs collation (fs/ntfs/collation.[hc]).
386 We have ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported() to check if the collation
387 rule you want to use is supported and ntfs_collation() which actually
388 collates two data items. We currently only support COLLATION_BINARY
389 and COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG but support for other collation rules will
390 be added as the need arises.
391 - Add a new type, ntfs_index_context, to allow retrieval of an index
392 entry using the corresponding index key. To get an index context,
393 use ntfs_index_ctx_get() and to release it, use ntfs_index_ctx_put().
394 This also adds a new slab cache for the index contexts. To lookup a
395 key in an index inode, use ntfs_index_lookup(). After modifying an
396 index entry, call ntfs_index_entry_flush_dcache_page() followed by
397 ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to ensure the changes are written out
398 to disk. For details see fs/ntfs/index.[hc]. Note, at present, if
399 an index entry is in the index allocation attribute rather than the
400 index root attribute it will not be written out (you will get a
401 warning message about discarded changes instead).
402 - Load the quota file ($Quota) and check if quota tracking is enabled
403 and if so, mark the quotas out of date. This causes windows to
404 rescan the volume on boot and update all quota entries.
405 - Add a set_page_dirty address space operation for ntfs_m[fs]t_aops.
406 It is simply set to __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() to make sure that
407 running set_page_dirty() on a page containing mft/ntfs records will
408 not affect the dirty state of the page buffers.
409 - Add fs/ntfs/index.c::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() which sets all
410 buffers that are inside the ntfs record in the page dirty after which
411 it sets the page dirty. This allows ->writepage to only write the
412 dirty index records rather than having to write all the records in
413 the page. Modify fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to
414 use this rather than __set_page_dirty_nobuffers().
415 - Implement fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() which enables the
416 writing of page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes
417 like the index allocation attribute in directory indices and other
418 indices like $Quota/$Q, etc. This means that the quota is now marked
419 out of date on all volumes rather than only on ones where the quota
420 defaults entry is in the index root attribute of the $Quota/$Q index.
421
4222.1.14 - Fix an NFSd caused deadlock reported by several users.
423
424 - Modify fs/ntfs/ntfs_readdir() to copy the index root attribute value
425 to a buffer so that we can put the search context and unmap the mft
426 record before calling the filldir() callback. We need to do this
427 because of NFSd which calls ->lookup() from its filldir callback()
428 and this causes NTFS to deadlock as ntfs_lookup() maps the mft record
429 of the directory and since ntfs_readdir() has got it mapped already
430 ntfs_lookup() deadlocks.
431
4322.1.13 - Enable overwriting of resident files and housekeeping of system files.
433
434 - Implement writing of mft records (fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]), which includes
435 keeping the mft mirror in sync with the mft when mirrored mft records
436 are written. The functions are write_mft_record{,_nolock}(). The
437 implementation is quite rudimentary for now with lots of things not
438 implemented yet but I am not sure any of them can actually occur so
439 I will wait for people to hit each one and only then implement it.
440 - Commit open system inodes at umount time. This should make it
441 virtually impossible for sync_mft_mirror_umount() to ever be needed.
442 - Implement ->write_inode (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode()) for the
443 ntfs super operations. This gives us inode writing via the VFS inode
444 dirty code paths. Note: Access time updates are not implemented yet.
445 - Implement fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::{,__}mark_mft_record_dirty() and make
446 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and ntfs_commit_write() use it, thus
447 finally enabling resident file overwrite! (-8 This also includes a
448 placeholder for ->writepage (ntfs_mft_writepage()), which for now
449 just redirties the page and returns. Also, at umount time, we for
450 now throw away all mft data page cache pages after the last call to
451 ntfs_commit_inode() in the hope that all inodes will have been
452 written out by then and hence no dirty (meta)data will be lost. We
453 also check for this case and emit an error message telling the user
454 to run chkdsk.
455 - Use set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback() in the resident
456 attribute code path of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() otherwise
457 the radix-tree tag PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the
458 page is clean.
459 - Implement ntfs_mft_writepage() so it now checks if any of the mft
460 records in the page are dirty and if so redirties the page and
461 returns. Otherwise it just returns (after doing set_page_writeback(),
462 unlock_page(), end_page_writeback() or the radix-tree tag
463 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the page is clean), thus
464 alowing the VM to do with the page as it pleases. Also, at umount
465 time, now only throw away dirty mft (meta)data pages if dirty inodes
466 are present and ask the user to email us if they see this happening.
467 - Add functions ntfs_{clear,set}_volume_flags(), to modify the volume
468 information flags (fs/ntfs/super.c).
469 - Mark the volume dirty when (re)mounting read-write and mark it clean
470 when unmounting or remounting read-only. If any volume errors are
471 found, the volume is left marked dirty to force chkdsk to run.
472 - Add code to set the NT4 compatibility flag when (re)mounting
473 read-write for newer NTFS versions but leave it commented out for now
474 since we do not make any modifications that are NTFS 1.2 specific yet
475 and since setting this flag breaks Captive-NTFS which is not nice.
476 This code must be enabled once we start writing NTFS 1.2 specific
477 changes otherwise Windows NTFS driver might crash / cause corruption.
478
4792.1.12 - Fix the second fix to the decompression engine and some cleanups.
480
481 - Add a new address space operations struct, ntfs_mst_aops, for mst
482 protected attributes. This is because the default ntfs_aops do not
483 make sense with mst protected data and were they to write anything to
484 such an attribute they would cause data corruption so we provide
485 ntfs_mst_aops which does not have any write related operations set.
486 - Cleanup dirty ntfs inode handling (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]) which also
487 includes an adapted ntfs_commit_inode() and an implementation of
488 ntfs_write_inode() which for now just cleans dirty inodes without
489 writing them (it does emit a warning that this is happening).
490 - Undo the second decompression engine fix (see 2.1.9 release ChangeLog
491 entry) as it was only fixing a theoretical bug but at the same time
492 it badly broke the handling of sparse and uncompressed compression
493 blocks.
494
4952.1.11 - Driver internal cleanups.
496
497 - Only build logfile.o if building the driver with read-write support.
498 - Really final white space cleanups.
499 - Use generic_ffs() instead of ffs() in logfile.c which allows the
500 log_page_size variable to be optimized by gcc into a constant.
501 - Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere as uchar_t is unsigned 1-byte
502 char as defined by POSIX and as found on some systems.
503
5042.1.10 - Force read-only (re)mounting of volumes with unsupported volume flags.
505
506 - Finish off the white space cleanups (remove trailing spaces, etc).
507 - Clean up ntfs_fill_super() and ntfs_read_inode_mount() by removing
508 the kludges around the first iget(). Instead of (re)setting ->s_op
509 we have the $MFT inode set up by explicit new_inode() / set ->i_ino /
510 insert_inode_hash() / call ntfs_read_inode_mount() directly. This
511 kills the need for second super_operations and allows to return error
512 from ntfs_read_inode_mount() without resorting to ugly "poisoning"
513 tricks. (Al Viro)
514 - Force read-only (re)mounting if any of the following bits are set in
515 the volume information flags:
516 VOLUME_IS_DIRTY, VOLUME_RESIZE_LOG_FILE,
517 VOLUME_UPGRADE_ON_MOUNT, VOLUME_DELETE_USN_UNDERWAY,
518 VOLUME_REPAIR_OBJECT_ID, VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK
519 To make this easier we define VOLUME_MUST_MOUNT_RO_MASK with all the
520 above bits set so the test is made easy.
521
5222.1.9 - Fix two bugs in decompression engine.
523
524 - Fix a bug where we would not always detect that we have reached the
525 end of a compression block because we were ending at minus one byte
526 which is effectively the same as being at the end. The fix is to
527 check whether the uncompressed buffer has been fully filled and if so
528 we assume we have reached the end of the compression block. A big
529 thank you to Marcin Gibuła for the bug report, the assistance in
530 tracking down the bug and testing the fix.
531 - Fix a possible bug where when a compressed read is truncated to the
532 end of the file, the offset inside the last page was not truncated.
533
5342.1.8 - Handle $MFT mirror and $LogFile, improve time handling, and cleanups.
535
536 - Use get_bh() instead of manual atomic_inc() in fs/ntfs/compress.c.
537 - Modify fs/ntfs/time.c::ntfs2utc(), get_current_ntfs_time(), and
538 utc2ntfs() to work with struct timespec instead of time_t on the
539 Linux UTC time side thus preserving the full precision of the NTFS
540 time and only loosing up to 99 nano-seconds in the Linux UTC time.
541 - Move fs/ntfs/time.c to fs/ntfs/time.h and make the time functions
542 static inline.
543 - Remove unused ntfs_dirty_inode().
544 - Cleanup super operations declaration in fs/ntfs/super.c.
545 - Wrap flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in #ifdef NTFS_RW.
546 - Add NInoTestSetFoo() and NInoTestClearFoo() macro magic to
547 fs/ntfs/inode.h and use it to declare NInoTest{Set,Clear}Dirty.
548 - Move typedefs for ntfs_attr and test_t from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
549 fs/ntfs/inode.h so they can be used elsewhere.
550 - Determine the mft mirror size as the number of mirrored mft records
551 and store it in ntfs_volume->mftmirr_size (fs/ntfs/super.c).
552 - Load the mft mirror at mount time and compare the mft records stored
553 in it to the ones in the mft. Force a read-only mount if the two do
554 not match (fs/ntfs/super.c).
555 - Fix type casting related warnings on 64-bit architectures. Thanks
556 to Meelis Roos for reporting them.
557 - Move %L to %ll as %L is floating point and %ll is integer which is
558 what we want.
559 - Read the journal ($LogFile) and determine if the volume has been
560 shutdown cleanly and force a read-only mount if not (fs/ntfs/super.c
561 and fs/ntfs/logfile.c). This is a little bit of a crude check in
562 that we only look at the restart areas and not at the actual log
563 records so that there will be a very small number of cases where we
564 think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean. This should
565 only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly and did not
566 have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o.
567 - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a read-write (re)mount
568 is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it with 0xff bytes to
569 ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale
570 journal after Linux has written to the volume.
571
5722.1.7 - Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes.
573
574 - Set i_generation in the VFS inode from the seq_no of the NTFS inode.
575 - Make ntfs_lookup() NFS export safe, i.e. use d_splice_alias(), etc.
576 - Implement ->get_dentry() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_dentry() as the
577 default doesn't allow inode number 0 which is a valid inode on NTFS
578 and even if it did allow that it uses iget() instead of ntfs_iget()
579 which makes it useless for us.
580 - Implement ->get_parent() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_parent() as the
581 default just returns -EACCES which is not very useful.
582 - Define export operations (->s_export_op) for NTFS (ntfs_export_ops)
583 and set them up in the super block at mount time (super.c) this
584 allows mounted NTFS volumes to be exported via NFS.
585 - Add missing return -EOPNOTSUPP; in
586 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write().
587 - Enforce no atime and no dir atime updates at mount/remount time as
588 they are not implemented yet anyway.
589 - Move a few assignments in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::load_attribute_list() to
590 after a NULL check. Thanks to Dave Jones for pointing this out.
591
5922.1.6 - Fix minor bug in handling of compressed directories.
593
594 - Fix bug in handling of compressed directories. A compressed
595 directory is not really compressed so when we set the ->i_blocks
596 field of a compressed directory inode we were setting it from the
597 non-existing field ni->itype.compressed.size which gave random
598 results... For directories we now always use ni->allocated_size.
599
6002.1.5 - Fix minor bug in attribute list attribute handling.
601
602 - Fix bug in attribute list handling. Actually it is not as much a bug
603 as too much protection in that we were not allowing attribute lists
604 which waste space on disk while Windows XP clearly allows it and in
605 fact creates such attribute lists so our driver was failing.
606 - Update NTFS documentation ready for 2.6 kernel release.
607
6082.1.4 - Reduce compiler requirements.
609
610 - Remove all uses of unnamed structs and unions in the driver to make
611 old and newer gcc versions happy. Makes it a bit uglier IMO but at
612 least people will stop hassling me about it.
613
6142.1.3 - Important bug fixes in corner cases.
615
616 - super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Correct the check for 64-bit
617 clusters. (Philipp Thomas)
618 - attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a
619 multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs
620 Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>)
621
6222.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs.
623
624 - Fix buggy free cluster and free inode determination logic.
625
6262.1.1 - Minor updates.
627
628 - Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files.
629 - Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in
630 fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.ord>)
631 - Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc.
632 - Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write()
633 around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write. Adapt NTFS appropriately
634 in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() by using
635 kmap_atomic(KM_USER0).
636
6372.1.0 - First steps towards write support: implement file overwrite.
638
639 - Add configuration option for developmental write support with an
640 appropriately scary configuration help text.
641 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its
642 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block(). This enables mmap(2) based
643 overwriting of existing files on ntfs. Note: Resident files are
644 only written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so
645 avoid writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
646 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_write(), its
647 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() and their
648 counterparts, fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_write(), and
649 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write(), respectively. Also,
650 add generic_file_write() to the ntfs file operations (fs/ntfs/file.c).
651 This enables write(2) based overwriting of existing files on ntfs.
652 Note: As with mmap(2) based overwriting, resident files are only
653 written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so avoid
654 writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
655 - Implement ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) and
656 ->setattr() (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) inode operations for
657 files with the purpose of intercepting and aborting all i_size
658 changes which we do not support yet. ntfs_truncate() actually only
659 emits a warning message but AFAICS our interception of i_size changes
660 elsewhere means ntfs_truncate() never gets called for i_size changes.
661 It is only called from generic_file_write() when we fail in
662 ntfs_prepare_{,nonresident_}write() in order to discard any
663 instantiated buffers beyond i_size. Thus i_size is not actually
664 changed so our warning message is enough. Unfortunately it is not
665 possible to easily determine if i_size is being changed or not hence
666 we just emit an appropriately worded error message.
667
6682.0.25 - Small bug fixes and cleanups.
669
670 - Unlock the page in an out of memory error code path in
671 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
672 - If fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page() is called on an uptodate page,
673 just unlock the page and return. (This can happen due to ->writepage
674 clearing PageUptodate() during write out of MstProtected()
675 attributes.
676 - Remove leaked write code again.
677
6782.0.24 - Cleanups.
679
680 - Treat BUG_ON() as ASSERT() not VERIFY(), i.e. do not use side effects
681 inside BUG_ON(). (Adam J. Richter)
682 - Split logical OR expressions inside BUG_ON() into individual BUG_ON()
683 calls for improved debugging. (Adam J. Richter)
684 - Add errors flag to the ntfs volume state, accessed via
685 NVol{,Set,Clear}Errors(vol).
686 - Do not allow read-write remounts of read-only volumes with errors.
687 - Clarify comment for ntfs file operation sendfile which was added by
688 Christoph Hellwig a while ago (just using generic_file_sendfile())
689 to say that ntfs ->sendfile is only used for the case where the
690 source data is on the ntfs partition and the destination is
691 somewhere else, i.e. nothing we need to concern ourselves with.
692 - Add generic_file_write() as our ntfs file write operation.
693
6942.0.23 - Major bug fixes (races, deadlocks, non-i386 architectures).
695
696 - Massive internal locking changes to mft record locking. Fixes lock
697 recursion and replaces the mrec_lock read/write semaphore with a
698 mutex. Also removes the now superfluous mft_count. This fixes several
699 race conditions and deadlocks, especially in the future write code.
700 - Fix ntfs over loopback for compressed files by adding an
701 optimization barrier. (gcc was screwing up otherwise ?)
702 - Miscellaneous cleanups all over the code and a fix or two in error
703 handling code paths.
704 Thanks go to Christoph Hellwig for pointing out the following two:
705 - Remove now unused function fs/ntfs/malloc.h::vmalloc_nofs().
706 - Fix ntfs_free() for ia64 and parisc by checking for VMALLOC_END, too.
707
7082.0.22 - Cleanups, mainly to ntfs_readdir(), and use C99 initializers.
709
710 - Change fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_reddir() to only read/write ->f_pos once
711 at entry/exit respectively.
712 - Use C99 initializers for structures.
713 - Remove unused variable blocks from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
714
7152.0.21 - Check for, and refuse to work with too large files/directories/volumes.
716
717 - Limit volume size at mount time to 2TiB on architectures where
718 unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector()).
719 This is the most we can do without overflowing the 32-bit limit of
720 the block device size imposed on us by sb_bread() and sb_getblk()
721 for the time being.
722 - Limit file/directory size at open() time to 16TiB on architectures
723 where unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open() and
724 fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_dir_open()). This is the most we can do without
725 overflowing the page cache page index.
726
7272.0.20 - Support non-resident directory index bitmaps, fix page leak in readdir.
728
729 - Move the directory index bitmap to use an attribute inode instead of
730 having special fields for it inside the ntfs inode structure. This
731 means that the index bitmaps now use the page cache for i/o, too,
732 and also as a side effect we get support for non-resident index
733 bitmaps for free.
734 - Simplify/cleanup error handling in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() and
735 fix a page leak that manifested itself in some cases.
736 - Add fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(), which we need to release the
737 index bitmap inode on the final iput().
738
7392.0.19 - Fix race condition, improvements, and optimizations in i/o interface.
740
741 - Apply block optimization added to fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block()
742 to fs/ntfs/compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() as well.
743 - Drop the "file" from ntfs_file_read_compressed_block().
744 - Rename fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_enb_buffer_read_async() to
745 ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() (more like the fs/buffer.c counterpart).
746 - Update ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() with the improved logic from
747 its updated counterpart fs/buffer.c::end_buffer_async_read(). Apply
748 further logic improvements to better determine when we set PageError.
749 - Update submission of buffers in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
750 check for the buffers being uptodate first in line with the updated
751 fs/buffer.c::block_read_full_page(). This plugs a small race
752 condition.
753
7542.0.18 - Fix race condition in reading of compressed files.
755
756 - There was a narrow window between checking a buffer head for being
757 uptodate and locking it in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block(). We now
758 lock the buffer and then check whether it is uptodate or not.
759
7602.0.17 - Cleanups and optimizations - shrinking the ToDo list.
761
762 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to return an error
763 code and update callers, i.e. ntfs_iget(), to pass that error code
764 up instead of just using -EIO.
765 - Modifications to super.c to ensure that both mount and remount
766 cannot set any write related options when the driver is compiled
767 read-only.
768 - Optimize block resolution in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
769 cache the current runlist element. This should improve performance
770 when reading very large and/or very fragmented data.
771
7722.0.16 - Convert access to $MFT/$BITMAP to attribute inode API.
773
774 - Fix a stupid bug introduced in 2.0.15 where we were unmapping the
775 wrong inode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_attr_iget().
776 - Fix debugging check in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
777 - Convert $MFT/$BITMAP access to attribute inode API and remove all
778 remnants of the ugly mftbmp address space and operations hack. This
779 means we finally have only one readpage function as well as only one
780 async io completion handler. Yey! The mft bitmap is now just an
781 attribute inode and is accessed from vol->mftbmp_ino just as if it
782 were a normal file. Fake inodes rule. (-:
783
7842.0.15 - Fake inodes based attribute i/o via the pagecache, fixes and cleanups.
785
786 - Fix silly bug in fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_options() which was causing
787 remounts to fail when the partition had an entry in /etc/fstab and
788 the entry specified the nls= option.
789 - Apply same macro magic used in fs/ntfs/inode.h to fs/ntfs/volume.h to
790 expand all the helper functions NVolFoo(), NVolSetFoo(), and
791 NVolClearFoo().
792 - Move copyright statement from driver initialisation message to
793 module description (fs/super.c). This makes the initialisation
794 message fit on one line and fits in better with rest of kernel.
795 - Update fs/ntfs/attrib.c::map_run_list() to work on both real and
796 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
797 - Implement fake attribute inodes allowing all attribute i/o to go via
798 the page cache and to use all the normal vfs/mm functionality:
799 - Add ntfs_attr_iget() and its helper ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode()
800 to fs/ntfs/inode.c.
801 - Add needed cleanup code to ntfs_clear_big_inode().
802 - Merge address space operations for files and directories (aops.c),
803 now just have ntfs_aops:
804 - Rename:
805 end_buffer_read_attr_async() -> ntfs_end_buffer_read_async(),
806 ntfs_attr_read_block() -> ntfs_read_block(),
807 ntfs_file_read_page() -> ntfs_readpage().
808 - Rewrite fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_readpage() to work on both real and
809 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
810 - Remove obsolete fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage().
811
8122.0.14 - Run list merging code cleanup, minor locking changes, typo fixes.
813
814 - Change fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() to not rely on BKL by moving
815 the locking out of super.c::get_nr_free_mft_records() and taking and
816 dropping the mftbmp_lock rw_semaphore in ntfs_statfs() itself.
817 - Bring attribute runlist merging code (fs/ntfs/attrib.c) in sync with
818 current userspace ntfs library code. This means that if a merge
819 fails the original runlists are always left unmodified instead of
820 being silently corrupted.
821 - Misc typo fixes.
822
8232.0.13 - Use iget5_locked() in preparation for fake inodes and small cleanups.
824
825 - Remove nr_mft_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_mft_records
826 from ntfs_volume structure.
827 - Remove nr_lcn_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_clusters
828 from ntfs_volume structure.
829 - Use iget5_locked() and friends instead of conventional iget(). Wrap
830 the call in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_iget() and update callers of iget()
831 to use ntfs_iget(). Leave only one iget() call at mount time so we
832 don't need an ntfs_iget_mount().
833 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_new_extent_inode() to take mft_no as an
834 additional argument.
835
8362.0.12 - Initial cleanup of address space operations following 2.0.11 changes.
837
838 - Merge fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_mst_async() and
839 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_file_async() into one function
840 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_attr_async() using NInoMstProtected()
841 to determine whether to apply mst fixups or not.
842 - Above change allows merging fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_file_read_block()
843 and fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() into one function
844 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_attr_read_block(). Also, create a tiny wrapper
845 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() to transform the parameters from
846 the VFS readpage function prototype to the ntfs_attr_read_block()
847 function prototype.
848
8492.0.11 - Initial preparations for fake inode based attribute i/o.
850
851 - Move definition of ntfs_inode_state_bits to fs/ntfs/inode.h and
852 do some macro magic (adapted from include/linux/buffer_head.h) to
853 expand all the helper functions NInoFoo(), NInoSetFoo(), and
854 NInoClearFoo().
855 - Add new flag to ntfs_inode_state_bits: NI_Sparse.
856 - Add new fields to ntfs_inode structure to allow use of fake inodes
857 for attribute i/o: type, name, name_len. Also add new state bits:
858 NI_Attr, which, if set, indicates the inode is a fake inode, and
859 NI_MstProtected, which, if set, indicates the attribute uses multi
860 sector transfer protection, i.e. fixups need to be applied after
861 reads and before/after writes.
862 - Rename fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_inode() to
863 ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_extent_inode() and update callers.
864 - Use ntfs_clear_extent_inode() in fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_clear_inode()
865 instead of ntfs_destroy_extent_inode().
866 - Cleanup memory deallocations in {__,}ntfs_clear_{,big_}inode().
867 - Make all operations on ntfs inode state bits use the NIno* functions.
868 - Set up the new ntfs inode fields and state bits in
869 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_inode() and add appropriate cleanup of
870 allocated memory to __ntfs_clear_inode().
871 - Cleanup ntfs_inode structure a bit for better ordering of elements
872 w.r.t. their size to allow better packing of the structure in memory.
873
8742.0.10 - There can only be 2^32 - 1 inodes on an NTFS volume.
875
876 - Add check at mount time to verify that the number of inodes on the
877 volume does not exceed 2^32 - 1, which is the maximum allowed for
878 NTFS according to Microsoft.
879 - Change mft_no member of ntfs_inode structure to be unsigned long.
880 Update all users. This makes ntfs_inode->mft_no just a copy of struct
881 inode->i_ino. But we can't just always use struct inode->i_ino and
882 remove mft_no because extent inodes do not have an attached struct
883 inode.
884
8852.0.9 - Decompression engine now uses a single buffer and other cleanups.
886
887 - Change decompression engine to use a single buffer protected by a
888 spin lock instead of per-CPU buffers. (Rusty Russell)
889 - Do not update cb_pos when handling a partial final page during
890 decompression of a sparse compression block, as the value is later
891 reset without being read/used. (Rusty Russell)
892 - Switch to using the new KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ for atomic kmap()s. (Andrew
893 Morton)
894 - Change buffer size in ntfs_readdir()/ntfs_filldir() to use
895 NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE which makes the buffers almost 1kiB each but
896 it also makes everything safer so it is a good thing.
897 - Miscellaneous minor cleanups to comments.
898
8992.0.8 - Major updates for handling of case sensitivity and dcache aliasing.
900
901 Big thanks go to Al Viro and other inhabitants of #kernel for investing
902 their time to discuss the case sensitivity and dcache aliasing issues.
903
904 - Remove unused source file fs/ntfs/attraops.c.
905 - Remove show_inodes mount option(s), thus dropping support for
906 displaying of short file names.
907 - Remove deprecated mount option posix.
908 - Restore show_sys_files mount option.
909 - Add new mount option case_sensitive, to determine if the driver
910 treats file names as case sensitive or not. If case sensitive, create
911 file names in the POSIX namespace. Otherwise create file names in the
912 LONG/WIN32 namespace. Note, files remain accessible via their short
913 file name, if it exists.
914 - Remove really dumb logic bug in boot sector recovery code.
915 - Fix dcache aliasing issues wrt short/long file names via changes
916 to fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() and
917 fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup():
918 - Add additional argument to ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() in which we
919 return information about the matching file name if the case is not
920 matching or the match is a short file name. See comments above the
921 function definition for details.
922 - Change ntfs_lookup() to only create dcache entries for the correctly
923 cased file name and only for the WIN32 namespace counterpart of DOS
924 namespace file names. This ensures we have only one dentry per
925 directory and also removes all dcache aliasing issues between short
926 and long file names once we add write support. See comments above
927 function for details.
928 - Fix potential 1 byte overflow in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_ucstonls().
929
9302.0.7 - Minor cleanups and updates for changes in core kernel code.
931
932 - Remove much of the NULL struct element initializers.
933 - Various updates to make compatible with recent kernels.
934 - Remove defines of MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE and include linux/buffer_head.h
935 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h instead.
936 - Remove no longer needed KERNEL_VERSION checks. We are now in the
937 kernel proper so they are no longer needed.
938
9392.0.6 - Major bugfix to make compatible with other kernel changes.
940
941 - Initialize the mftbmp address space properly now that there are more
942 fields in the struct address_space. This was leading to hangs and
943 oopses on umount since 2.5.12 because of changes to other parts of
944 the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space()
945 function...
946 - Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The
947 only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_sem during
948 the call, and i_sem is sufficient protection against changes in the
949 directory inode (including ->i_size).
950 - Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to
951 default_llseek()) as this downs i_sem instead of the BKL which is
952 what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we
953 no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir().
954
9552.0.5 - Major bugfix. Buffer overflow in extent inode handling.
956
957 - No need to set old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as the
958 VFS does so via invocation of deactivate_super() calling
959 fs->fill_super() calling block_kill_super() which does it.
960 - BKL moved from VFS into dir.c::ntfs_readdir(). (Linus Torvalds)
961 -> Do we really need it? I don't think so as we have exclusion on
962 the directory ntfs_inode rw_semaphore mrec_lock. We mmight have to
963 move the ->f_pos accesses under the mrec_lock though. Check this...
964 - Fix really, really, really stupid buffer overflow in extent inode
965 handling in mft.c::map_extent_mft_record().
966
9672.0.4 - Cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.11.
968
969 - Add documentation on how to use the MD driver to be able to use NTFS
970 stripe and volume sets in Linux and generally cleanup documentation
971 a bit.
972 Remove all uses of kdev_t in favour of struct block_device *:
973 - Change compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() to use
974 sb_getblk() instead of getblk().
975 - Change super.c::ntfs_fill_super() to use bdev_hardsect_size() instead
976 of get_hardsect_size().
977 - No need to get old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as
978 fs/super.c::get_sb_bdev() already does this.
979 - Set bh->b_bdev instead of bh->b_dev throughout aops.c.
980
9812.0.3 - Small bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements.
982
983 - Remove some dead code from mft.c.
984 - Optimize readpage and read_block functions throughout aops.c so that
985 only initialized blocks are read. Non-initialized ones have their
986 buffer head mapped, zeroed, and set up to date, without scheduling
987 any i/o. Thanks to Al Viro for advice on how to avoid the device i/o.
988 Thanks go to Andrew Morton for spotting the below:
989 - Fix buglet in allocate_compression_buffers() error code path.
990 - Call flush_dcache_page() after modifying page cache page contents in
991 ntfs_file_readpage().
992 - Check for existence of page buffers throughout aops.c before calling
993 create_empty_buffers(). This happens when an I/O error occurs and the
994 read is retried. (It also happens once writing is implemented so that
995 needed doing anyway but I had left it for later...)
996 - Don't BUG_ON() uptodate and/or mapped buffers throughout aops.c in
997 readpage and read_block functions. Reasoning same as above (i.e. I/O
998 error retries and future write code paths.)
999
10002.0.2 - Minor updates and cleanups.
1001
1002 - Cleanup: rename mst.c::__post_read_mst_fixup to post_write_mst_fixup
1003 and cleanup the code a bit, removing the unused size parameter.
1004 - Change default fmask to 0177 and update documentation.
1005 - Change attrib.c::get_attr_search_ctx() to return the search context
1006 directly instead of taking the address of a pointer. A return value
1007 of NULL means the allocation failed. Updated all callers
1008 appropriately.
1009 - Update to 2.5.9 kernel (preserving backwards compatibility) by
1010 replacing all occurences of page->buffers with page_buffers(page).
1011 - Fix minor bugs in runlist merging, also minor cleanup.
1012 - Updates to bootsector layout and mft mirror contents descriptions.
1013 - Small bug fix in error detection in unistr.c and some cleanups.
1014 - Grow name buffer allocations in unistr.c in aligned mutlipled of 64
1015 bytes.
1016
10172.0.1 - Minor updates.
1018
1019 - Make default umask correspond to documentation.
1020 - Improve documentation.
1021 - Set default mode to include execute bit. The {u,f,d}mask can be used
1022 to take it away if desired. This allows binaries to be executed from
1023 a mounted ntfs partition.
1024
10252.0.0 - New version number. Remove TNG from the name. Now in the kernel.
1026
1027 - Add kill_super, just keeping up with the vfs changes in the kernel.
1028 - Repeat some changes from tng-0.0.8 that somehow got lost on the way
1029 from the CVS import into BitKeeper.
1030 - Begin to implement proper handling of allocated_size vs
1031 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size). Done are
1032 mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage(), aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async(),
1033 and attrib.c::load_attribute_list().
1034 - Lock the runlist in attrib.c::load_attribute_list() while using it.
1035 - Fix memory leak in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() and generally
1036 clean up compress.c a little, removing some uncommented/unused debug
1037 code.
1038 - Tidy up dir.c a little bit.
1039 - Don't bother getting the runlist in inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1040 - Merge mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage() and aops.c::ntfs_index_readpage()
1041 creating aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage(), improving the handling of
1042 holes and overflow in the process and implementing the correct
1043 equivalent of ntfs_file_get_block() in ntfs_mst_readpage() itself.
1044 I am aiming for correctness at the moment. Modularisation can come
1045 later.
1046 - Rename aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async() to
1047 end_buffer_read_mst_async() and optimize the overflow checking and
1048 handling.
1049 - Use the host of the mftbmp address space mapping to hold the ntfs
1050 volume. This is needed so the async i/o completion handler can
1051 retrieve a pointer to the volume. Hopefully this will not cause
1052 problems elsewhere in the kernel... Otherwise will need to use a
1053 fake inode.
1054 - Complete implementation of proper handling of allocated_size vs
1055 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size) in whole driver.
1056 Basically aops.c is now completely rewritten.
1057 - Change NTFS driver name to just NTFS and set version number to 2.0.0
1058 to make a clear distinction from the old driver which is still on
1059 version 1.1.22.
1060
1061tng-0.0.8 - 08/03/2002 - Now using BitKeeper, http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/
1062
1063 - Replace bdevname(sb->s_dev) with sb->s_id.
1064 - Remove now superfluous new-line characters in all callers of
1065 ntfs_debug().
1066 - Apply kludge in ntfs_read_inode(), setting i_nlink to 1 for
1067 directories. Without this the "find" utility gets very upset which is
1068 fair enough as Linux/Unix do not support directory hard links.
1069 - Further runlist merging work. (Richard Russon)
1070 - Backwards compatibility for gcc-2.95. (Richard Russon)
1071 - Update to kernel 2.5.5-pre1 and rediff the now tiny patch.
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001072 - Convert to new filesystem declaration using ->ntfs_get_sb() and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001073 replacing ntfs_read_super() with ntfs_fill_super().
1074 - Set s_maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to avoid page cache page index
1075 overflow on 32-bit architectures.
1076 - Cleanup upcase loading code to use ntfs_(un)map_page().
1077 - Disable/reenable preemtion in critical sections of compession engine.
1078 - Replace device size determination in ntfs_fill_super() with
1079 sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_size (in bytes) and remove now superfluous
1080 function super.c::get_nr_blocks().
1081 - Implement a mount time option (show_inodes) allowing choice of which
1082 types of inode names readdir() returns and modify ntfs_filldir()
1083 accordingly. There are several parameters to show_inodes:
1084 system: system files
1085 win32: long file names (including POSIX file names) [DEFAULT]
1086 long: same as win32
1087 dos: short file names only (excluding POSIX file names)
1088 short: same as dos
1089 posix: same as both win32 and dos
1090 all: all file names
1091 Note that the options are additive, i.e. specifying:
1092 -o show_inodes=system,show_inodes=win32,show_inodes=dos
1093 is the same as specifying:
1094 -o show_inodes=all
1095 Note that the "posix" and "all" options will show all directory
1096 names, BUT the link count on each directory inode entry is set to 1,
1097 due to Linux not supporting directory hard links. This may well
1098 confuse some userspace applications, since the directory names will
1099 have the same inode numbers. Thus it is NOT advisable to use the
1100 "posix" or "all" options. We provide them only for completeness sake.
1101 - Add copies of allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size to
1102 the ntfs inode structure and set them up in
1103 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). These reflect the unnamed data attribute
1104 for files and the index allocation attribute for directories.
1105 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs inode for
1106 $BITMAP attribute of large directories and set them up in
1107 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1108 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs volume for
1109 $BITMAP attribute of $MFT and set them up in
1110 super.c::load_system_files().
1111 - Parse deprecated ntfs driver options (iocharset, show_sys_files,
1112 posix, and utf8) and tell user what the new options to use are. Note
1113 we still do support them but they will be removed with kernel 2.7.x.
1114 - Change all occurences of integer long long printf formatting to hex
1115 as printk() will not support long long integer format if/when the
1116 div64 patch goes into the kernel.
1117 - Make slab caches have stable names and change the names to what they
1118 were intended to be. These changes are required/made possible by the
1119 new slab cache name handling which removes the length limitation by
1120 requiring the caller of kmem_cache_create() to supply a stable name
1121 which is then referenced but not copied.
1122 - Rename run_list structure to run_list_element and create a new
1123 run_list structure containing a pointer to a run_list_element
1124 structure and a read/write semaphore. Adapt all users of runlists
1125 to new scheme and take and release the lock as needed. This fixes a
1126 nasty race as the run_list changes even when inodes are locked for
1127 reading and even when the inode isn't locked at all, so we really
1128 needed the serialization. We use a semaphore rather than a spinlock
1129 as memory allocations can sleep and doing everything GFP_ATOMIC
1130 would be silly.
1131 - Cleanup read_inode() removing all code checking for lowest_vcn != 0.
1132 This can never happen due to the nature of lookup_attr() and how we
1133 support attribute lists. If it did happen it would imply the inode
1134 being corrupt.
1135 - Check for lowest_vcn != 0 in ntfs_read_inode() and mark the inode as
1136 bad if found.
1137 - Update to 2.5.6-pre2 changes in struct address_space.
1138 - Use parent_ino() when accessing d_parent inode number in dir.c.
1139 - Import Sourceforge CVS repository into BitKeeper repository:
1140 http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-tng-2.5
1141 - Update fs/Makefile, fs/Config.help, fs/Config.in, and
1142 Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for NTFS TNG.
1143 - Create kernel configuration option controlling whether debugging
1144 is enabled or not.
1145 - Add the required export of end_buffer_io_sync() from the patches
1146 directory to the kernel code.
1147 - Update inode.c::ntfs_show_options() with show_inodes mount option.
1148 - Update errors mount option.
1149
1150tng-0.0.7 - 13/02/2002 - The driver is now feature complete for read-only!
1151
1152 - Cleanup mft.c and it's debug/error output in particular. Fix a minor
1153 bug in mapping of extent inodes. Update all the comments to fit all
1154 the recent code changes.
1155 - Modify vcn_to_lcn() to cope with entirely unmapped runlists.
1156 - Cleanups in compress.c, mostly comments and folding help.
1157 - Implement attrib.c::map_run_list() as a generic helper.
1158 - Make compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() use map_run_list()
1159 thus making code shorter and enabling attribute list support.
1160 - Cleanup incorrect use of [su]64 with %L printf format specifier in
1161 all source files. Type casts to [unsigned] long long added to correct
1162 the mismatches (important for architectures which have long long not
1163 being 64 bits).
1164 - Merge async io completion handlers for directory indexes and $MFT
1165 data into one by setting the index_block_size{_bits} of the ntfs
1166 inode for $MFT to the mft_record_size{_bits} of the ntfs_volume.
1167 - Cleanup aops.c, update comments.
1168 - Make ntfs_file_get_block() use map_run_list() so all files now
1169 support attribute lists.
1170 - Make ntfs_dir_readpage() almost verbatim copy of
1171 block_read_full_page() by using ntfs_file_get_block() with only real
1172 difference being the use of our own async io completion handler
1173 rather than the default one, thus reducing the amount of code and
1174 automatically enabling attribute list support for directory indices.
1175 - Fix bug in load_attribute_list() - forgot to call brelse in error
1176 code path.
1177 - Change parameters to find_attr() and lookup_attr(). We no longer
1178 pass in the upcase table and its length. These can be gotten from
1179 ctx->ntfs_ino->vol->upcase{_len}. Update all callers.
1180 - Cleanups in attrib.c.
1181 - Implement merging of runlists, attrib.c::merge_run_lists() and its
1182 helpers. (Richard Russon)
1183 - Attribute lists part 2, attribute extents and multi part runlists:
1184 enable proper support for LCN_RL_NOT_MAPPED and automatic mapping of
1185 further runlist parts via attrib.c::map_run_list().
1186 - Tiny endianness bug fix in decompress_mapping_pairs().
1187
1188tng-0.0.6 - Encrypted directories, bug fixes, cleanups, debugging enhancements.
1189
1190 - Enable encrypted directories. (Their index root is marked encrypted
1191 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1192 encrypted.)
1193 - Fix bug in NInoBmpNonResident() macro. (Cut and paste error.)
1194 - Enable $Extend system directory. Most (if not all) extended system
1195 files do not have unnamed data attributes so ntfs_read_inode() had to
1196 special case them but that is ok, as the special casing recovery
1197 happens inside an error code path so there is zero slow down in the
1198 normal fast path. The special casing is done by introducing a new
1199 function inode.c::ntfs_is_extended_system_file() which checks if any
1200 of the hard links in the inode point to $Extend as being their parent
1201 directory and if they do we assume this is an extended system file.
1202 - Create a sysctl/proc interface to allow {dis,en}abling of debug output
1203 when compiled with -DDEBUG. Default is debug messages to be disabled.
1204 To enable them, one writes a non-zero value to /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
1205 (if /proc is enabled) or uses sysctl(2) to effect the same (if sysctl
1206 interface is enabled). Inspired by old ntfs driver.
1207 - Add debug_msgs insmod/kernel boot parameter to set whether debug
1208 messages are {dis,en}abled. This is useful to enable debug messages
1209 during ntfs initialization and is the only way to activate debugging
1210 when the sysctl interface is not enabled.
1211 - Cleanup debug output in various places.
1212 - Remove all dollar signs ($) from the source (except comments) to
1213 enable compilation on architectures whose gcc compiler does not
1214 support dollar signs in the names of variables/constants. Attribute
1215 types now start with AT_ instead of $ and $I30 is now just I30.
1216 - Cleanup ntfs_lookup() and add consistency check of sequence numbers.
1217 - Load complete runlist for $MFT/$BITMAP during mount and cleanup
1218 access functions. This means we now cope with $MFT/$BITMAP being
1219 spread accross several mft records.
1220 - Disable modification of mft_zone_multiplier on remount. We can always
1221 reenable this later on if we really want to, but we will need to make
1222 sure we readjust the mft_zone size / layout accordingly.
1223
1224tng-0.0.5 - Modernize for 2.5.x and further in line-ing with Al Viro's comments.
1225
1226 - Use sb_set_blocksize() instead of set_blocksize() and verify the
1227 return value.
1228 - Use sb_bread() instead of bread() throughout.
1229 - Add index_vcn_size{_bits} to ntfs_inode structure to store the size
1230 of a directory index block vcn. Apply resulting simplifications in
1231 dir.c everywhere.
1232 - Fix a small bug somewhere (but forgot what it was).
1233 - Change ntfs_{debug,error,warning} to enable gcc to do type checking
1234 on the printf-format parameter list and fix bugs reported by gcc
1235 as a result. (Richard Russon)
1236 - Move inode allocation strategy to Al's new stuff but maintain the
1237 divorce of ntfs_inode from struct inode. To achieve this we have two
1238 separate slab caches, one for big ntfs inodes containing a struct
1239 inode and pure ntfs inodes and at the same time fix some faulty
1240 error code paths in ntfs_read_inode().
1241 - Show mount options in proc (inode.c::ntfs_show_options()).
1242
1243tng-0.0.4 - Big changes, getting in line with Al Viro's comments.
1244
1245 - Modified (un)map_mft_record functions to be common for read and write
1246 case. To specify which is which, added extra parameter at front of
1247 parameter list. Pass either READ or WRITE to this, each has the
1248 obvious meaning.
1249 - General cleanups to allow for easier folding in vi.
1250 - attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() now accepts the old runlist
1251 argument, and invokes attrib.c::merge_run_lists() to merge the old
1252 and the new runlists.
1253 - Removed attrib.c::find_first_attr().
1254 - Implemented loading of attribute list and complete runlist for $MFT.
1255 This means we now cope with $MFT being spread across several mft
1256 records.
1257 - Adapt to 2.5.2-pre9 and the changed create_empty_buffers() syntax.
1258 - Adapt major/minor/kdev_t/[bk]devname stuff to new 2.5.x kernels.
1259 - Make ntfs_volume be allocated via kmalloc() instead of using a slab
1260 cache. There are too little ntfs_volume structures at any one time
1261 to justify a private slab cache.
1262 - Fix bogus kmap() use in async io completion. Now use kmap_atomic().
1263 Use KM_BIO_IRQ on advice from IRC/kernel...
1264 - Use ntfs_map_page() in map_mft_record() and create ->readpage method
1265 for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated
1266 address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also
1267 removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch.
1268 - Fix a bug where kfree() was used insted of ntfs_free().
1269 - Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of
1270 vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers.
1271 - Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode.
1272 - Add mft record number and sequence number to ntfs_inode. Stop using
1273 i_ino and i_generation for in-driver purposes.
1274 - Implement attrib.c::merge_run_lists(). (Richard Russon)
1275 - Remove use of proper inodes by extent inodes. Move i_ino and
1276 i_generation to ntfs_inode to do this. Apply simplifications that
1277 result and remove iget_no_wait(), etc.
1278 - Pass ntfs_inode everywhere in the driver (used to be struct inode).
1279 - Add reference counting in ntfs_inode for the ntfs inode itself and
1280 for the mapped mft record.
1281 - Extend mft record mapping so we can (un)map extent mft records (new
1282 functions (un)map_extent_mft_record), and so mappings are reference
1283 counted and don't have to happen twice if already mapped - just ref
1284 count increases.
1285 - Add -o iocharset as alias to -o nls for backwards compatibility.
1286 - The latest core patch is now tiny. In fact just a single additional
1287 export is necessary over the base kernel.
1288
1289tng-0.0.3 - Cleanups, enhancements, bug fixes.
1290
1291 - Work on attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() to detect base extents
1292 and setup the runlist appropriately using knowledge provided by the
1293 sizes in the base attribute record.
1294 - Balance the get_/put_attr_search_ctx() calls so we don't leak memory
1295 any more.
1296 - Introduce ntfs_malloc_nofs() and ntfs_free() to allocate/free a single
1297 page or use vmalloc depending on the amount of memory requested.
1298 - Cleanup error output. The __FUNCTION__ "(): " is now added
1299 automatically. Introduced a new header file debug.h to support this
1300 and also moved ntfs_debug() function into it.
1301 - Make reading of compressed files more intelligent and especially get
1302 rid of the vmalloc_nofs() from readpage(). This now uses per CPU
1303 buffers (allocated at first mount with cluster size <= 4kiB and
1304 deallocated on last umount with cluster size <= 4kiB), and
1305 asynchronous io for the compressed data using a list of buffer heads.
1306 Er, we use synchronous io as async io only works on whole pages
1307 covered by buffers and not on individual buffer heads...
1308 - Bug fix for reading compressed files with sparse compression blocks.
1309
1310tng-0.0.2 - Now handles larger/fragmented/compressed volumes/files/dirs.
1311
1312 - Fixed handling of directories when cluster size exceeds index block
1313 size.
1314 - Hide DOS only name space directory entries from readdir() but allow
1315 them in lookup(). This should fix the problem that Linux doesn't
1316 support directory hard links, while still allowing access to entries
1317 via their short file name. This also has the benefit of mimicking
1318 what Windows users are used to, so it is the ideal solution.
1319 - Implemented sync_page everywhere so no more hangs in D state when
1320 waiting for a page.
1321 - Stop using bforget() in favour of brelse().
1322 - Stop locking buffers unnecessarily.
1323 - Implemented compressed files (inode->mapping contains uncompressed
1324 data, raw compressed data is currently bread() into a vmalloc()ed
1325 memory buffer).
1326 - Enable compressed directories. (Their index root is marked compressed
1327 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1328 compressed.)
1329 - Use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in the ntfs_error and ntfs_warning
1330 functions. (Thanks to Will Dyson for pointing this out.)
1331 - Moved the ntfs_inode and ntfs_volume (the former ntfs_inode_info and
1332 ntfs_sb_info) out of the common inode and super_block structures and
1333 started using the generic_ip and generic_sbp pointers instead. This
1334 makes ntfs entirely private with respect to the kernel tree.
1335 - Detect compiler version and abort with error message if gcc less than
1336 2.96 is used.
1337 - Fix bug in name comparison function in unistr.c.
1338 - Implement attribute lists part 1, the infrastructure: search contexts
1339 and operations, find_external_attr(), lookup_attr()) and make the
1340 code use the infrastructure.
1341 - Fix stupid buffer overflow bug that became apparent on larger run
1342 list containing attributes.
1343 - Fix bugs in readdir() that became apparent on larger directories.
1344
1345 The driver is now really useful and survives the test
1346 find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
1347 without any error messages on a over 1GiB sized partition with >16k
1348 files on it, including compressed files and directories and many files
1349 and directories with attribute lists.
1350
1351tng-0.0.1 - The first useful version.
1352
1353 - Added ntfs_lookup().
1354 - Added default upcase generation and handling.
1355 - Added compile options to be shown on module init.
1356 - Many bug fixes that were "hidden" before.
1357 - Update to latest kernel.
1358 - Added ntfs_readdir().
1359 - Added file operations for mmap(), read(), open() and llseek(). We just
1360 use the generic ones. The whole point of going through implementing
1361 readpage() methods and where possible get_block() call backs is that
1362 this allows us to make use of the generic high level methods provided
1363 by the kernel.
1364
1365 The driver is now actually useful! Yey. (-: It undoubtedly has got bugs
1366 though and it doesn't implement accesssing compressed files yet. Also,
1367 accessing files with attribute list attributes is not implemented yet
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001368 either. But for small or simple filesystems it should work and allow
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001369 you to list directories, use stat on directory entries and the file
1370 system, open, read, mmap and llseek around in files. A big mile stone
1371 has been reached!
1372
1373tng-0.0.0 - Initial version tag.
1374
1375 Initial driver implementation. The driver can mount and umount simple
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001376 NTFS filesystems (i.e. ones without attribute lists in the system
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001377 files). If the mount fails there might be problems in the error handling
1378 code paths, so be warned. Otherwise it seems to be loading the system
1379 files nicely and the mft record read mapping/unmapping seems to be
1380 working nicely, too. Proof of inode metadata in the page cache and non-
1381 resident file unnamed stream data in the page cache concepts is thus
1382 complete.