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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
252.1.23-WIP
26
27 - Add printk rate limiting for ntfs_warning() and ntfs_error() when
28 compiled without debug. This avoids a possible denial of service
29 attack. Thanks to Carl-Daniel Hailfinger from SuSE for pointing this
30 out.
Randy Dunlap89075472005-03-03 11:19:53 +000031 - Fix compilation warnings on ia64. (Randy Dunlap)
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.
Anton Altaparmakovb6ad6c52005-02-15 10:08:43 +000066 - Split ntfs_map_runlist() into ntfs_map_runlist() and a non-locking
67 helper ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() which is used by ntfs_map_runlist().
68 This allows us to map runlist fragments with the runlist lock already
69 held without having to drop and reacquire it around the call. Adapt
70 all callers.
71 - Change ntfs_find_vcn() to ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() which takes a locked
72 runlist. This allows us to find runlist elements with the runlist
73 lock already held without having to drop and reacquire it around the
74 call. Adapt all callers.
Anton Altaparmakov37e4c132005-02-18 10:03:13 +000075 - Change time to u64 in time.h::ntfs2utc() as it otherwise generates a
Anton Altaparmakovd8ec7852005-02-18 09:23:39 +000076 warning in the do_div() call on sparc32. Thanks to Meelis Roos for
77 the report and analysis of the warning.
Anton Altaparmakov37e4c132005-02-18 10:03:13 +000078 - Fix a nasty runlist merge bug when merging two holes.
Anton Altaparmakov5ae9fcf2005-03-02 17:03:24 +000079 - Set the ntfs_inode->allocated_size to the real allocated size in the
80 mft record for resident attributes (fs/ntfs/inode.c).
81 - Small readability cleanup to use "a" instead of "ctx->attr"
82 everywhere (fs/ntfs/inode.c).
Anton Altaparmakov41382682005-03-03 13:44:15 +000083 - Make fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_{parent,dentry} static and move the
84 definition of ntfs_export_ops from fs/ntfs/super.c to namei.c. Also,
85 declare ntfs_export_ops in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h.
Anton Altaparmakov9451f852005-03-03 14:43:43 +000086 - Correct sparse file handling. The compressed values need to be
87 checked and set in the ntfs inode as done for compressed files and
88 the compressed size needs to be used for vfs inode->i_blocks instead
89 of the allocated size, again, as done for compressed files.
Anton Altaparmakov271849a2005-03-07 21:36:18 +000090 - Add AT_EA in addition to AT_DATA to whitelist for being allowed to be
91 non-resident in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident().
92 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_vcn_to_lcn_nolock() used by the new
93 write code.
Anton Altaparmakovc0c1cc02005-03-07 21:43:38 +000094 - Fix bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() where after
95 dropping the read lock and taking the write lock we were not checking
96 whether someone else did not already do the work we wanted to do.
97 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() to
98 ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() and update all callers.
Anton Altaparmakov2bfb4ff2005-03-09 15:15:06 +000099 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_make_non_resident().
Anton Altaparmakov43b01fd2005-03-09 15:18:43 +0000100 - Fix sign of various error return values to be negative in
101 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c.
Anton Altaparmakov905685f2005-03-10 11:06:19 +0000102 - Modify ->readpage and ->writepage (fs/ntfs/aops.c) so they detect and
103 handle the case where an attribute is converted from resident to
104 non-resident by a concurrent file write.
Jesper Juhl251c8422005-04-04 14:59:56 +0100105 - Remove checks for NULL before calling kfree() since kfree() does the
106 checking itself. (Jesper Juhl)
Anton Altaparmakovb0d23742005-04-04 16:20:14 +0100107 - Some utilities modify the boot sector but do not update the checksum.
108 Thus, relax the checking in fs/ntfs/super.c::is_boot_sector_ntfs() to
109 only emit a warning when the checksum is incorrect rather than
110 refusing the mount. Thanks to Bernd Casimir for pointing this
111 problem out.
Anton Altaparmakovbb3cf332005-04-06 13:34:31 +0100112 - Update attribute definition handling.
Anton Altaparmakov7fafb8b2005-04-06 16:09:21 +0100113 - Add NTFS_MAX_CLUSTER_SIZE and NTFS_MAX_PAGES_PER_CLUSTER constants.
114 - Use NTFS_MAX_CLUSTER_SIZE in super.c instead of hard coding 0x10000.
Anton Altaparmakovd53ee322005-04-06 16:11:20 +0100115 - Use MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE instead of variable sized array allocation for
116 better code generation and one less sparse warning in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
Pekka Enberg2fb21db2005-05-25 21:15:34 +0300117 - Remove spurious void pointer casts from fs/ntfs/. (Pekka Enberg)
Anton Altaparmakov442d2072005-05-27 16:42:56 +0100118 - Use C99 style structure initialization after memory allocation where
119 possible (fs/ntfs/{attrib.c,index.c,super.c}). Thanks to Al Viro and
120 Pekka Enberg.
Anton Altaparmakov3f2faef2005-06-25 15:28:56 +0100121 - Stamp the transaction log ($UsnJrnl), aka user space journal, if it
122 is active on the volume and we are mounting read-write or remounting
123 from read-only to read-write.
Anton Altaparmakov9f993fe2005-06-25 16:15:36 +0100124 - Fix a bug in address space operations error recovery code paths where
125 if the runlist was not mapped at all and a mapping error occured we
126 would leave the runlist locked on exit to the function so that the
127 next access to the same file would try to take the lock and deadlock.
Anton Altaparmakovca8fd7a2005-06-25 16:31:27 +0100128 - Detect the case when Windows has been suspended to disk on the volume
129 to be mounted and if this is the case do not allow (re)mounting
130 read-write. This is done by parsing hiberfil.sys if present.
Anton Altaparmakov3bd1f4a2005-06-25 16:51:58 +0100131 - Fix several occurences of a bug where we would perform 'var & ~const'
132 with a 64-bit variable and a int, i.e. 32-bit, constant. This causes
133 the higher order 32-bits of the 64-bit variable to be zeroed. To fix
134 this cast the 'const' to the same 64-bit type as 'var'.
Anton Altaparmakov1d58b272005-06-25 17:04:55 +0100135 - Change the runlist terminator of the newly allocated cluster(s) to
136 LCN_ENOENT in ntfs_attr_make_non_resident(). Otherwise the runlist
137 code gets confused.
Anton Altaparmakovfa3be9232005-06-25 17:15:36 +0100138 - Add an extra parameter @last_vcn to ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs()
139 and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build() to allow the runlist encoding to be
140 partial which is desirable when filling holes in sparse attributes.
141 Update all callers.
Anton Altaparmakov4757d7df2005-06-25 17:24:08 +0100142 - Change ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() to only decompress the mapping pairs
143 if the requested vcn is inside it. Otherwise we get into problems
144 when we try to map an out of bounds vcn because we then try to map
145 the already mapped runlist fragment which causes
146 ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() to fail and return error. Update
147 ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() accordingly.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700148
1492.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
150
151 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate().
152 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to return an error code
153 instead of void and provide a helper ntfs_truncate_vfs() for the
154 vfs ->truncate method.
155 - Add a new ntfs inode flag NInoTruncateFailed() and modify
156 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to set and clear it appropriately.
157 - Fix min_size and max_size definitions in ATTR_DEF structure in
158 fs/ntfs/layout.h to be signed.
159 - Add attribute definition handling helpers to fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]:
160 ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check(), ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident(), and
161 ntfs_attr_can_be_resident(), which in turn use the new private helper
162 ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef().
163 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty(), take the
164 mapping->private_lock around the dirtying of the buffer heads
165 analagous to the way it is done in __set_page_dirty_buffers().
166 - Ensure the mft record size does not exceed the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at
167 mount time as this cannot work with the current implementation.
168 - Check for location of attribute name and improve error handling in
169 general in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() and friends.
170 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage(), if the page is fully outside
171 i_size, i.e. race with truncate, invalidate the buffers on the page
172 so that they become freeable and hence the page does not leak.
173 - Remove unused function fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_merge(). (Adrian
174 Bunk)
175 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_find() that resulted in
176 a NULL pointer dereference in the error code path when a corrupt
177 attribute was found. (Thanks to Domen Puncer for the bug report.)
178 - Add MODULE_VERSION() to fs/ntfs/super.c.
179 - Make several functions and variables static. (Adrian Bunk)
180 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() so it allocates
181 buffers for the page if they are not present and then marks the
182 buffers belonging to the ntfs record dirty. This causes the buffers
183 to become busy and hence they are safe from removal until the page
184 has been written out.
185 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find() in the
186 error handling code path that resulted in a BUG() due to trying to
187 unmap an extent mft record when the mapping of it had failed and it
188 thus was not mapped. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for the bug report.)
189 - Drop the runlist lock after the vcn has been read in
190 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::__ntfs_cluster_free().
191 - Rewrite handling of multi sector transfer errors. We now do not set
192 PageError() when such errors are detected in the async i/o handler
193 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(). All users of mst
194 protected attributes now check the magic of each ntfs record as they
195 use it and act appropriately. This has the effect of making errors
196 granular per ntfs record rather than per page which solves the case
197 where we cannot access any of the ntfs records in a page when a
198 single one of them had an mst error. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for
199 the bug report.)
200 - Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date()
201 where we failed to release i_sem on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode.
202 - Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
203 - Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e.
204 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(),
205 and write_mft_record_nolock(). From now on we require that the
206 complete runlist for the mft mirror is always mapped into memory.
207 - Add creation of buffers to fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
208 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block().
209 - Cleanup fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page() since we know that a
210 resident attribute will be smaller than a page which makes the code
211 simpler. Also make the code more tolerant to concurrent ->truncate.
212
2132.1.21 - Fix some races and bugs, rewrite mft write code, add mft allocator.
214
215 - Implement extent mft record deallocation
216 fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_extent_mft_record_free().
217 - Splitt runlist related functions off from attrib.[hc] to runlist.[hc].
218 - Add vol->mft_data_pos and initialize it at mount time.
219 - Rename init_runlist() to ntfs_init_runlist(), ntfs_vcn_to_lcn() to
220 ntfs_rl_vcn_to_lcn(), decompress_mapping_pairs() to
221 ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(), ntfs_merge_runlists() to
222 ntfs_runlists_merge() and adapt all callers.
223 - Add fs/ntfs/runlist.[hc]::ntfs_get_nr_significant_bytes(),
224 ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs(), ntfs_write_significant_bytes(),
225 and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build(), adapted from libntfs.
226 - Make fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() not
227 static and add a declaration for it to lcnalloc.h.
228 - Add fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.h::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl() which is a static
229 inline wrapper for ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() which takes the
230 cluster bitmap lock for the duration of the call.
231 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_record_resize().
232 - Implement the equivalent of memset() for an ntfs attribute in
233 fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_set() and switch
234 fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_empty_logfile() to using it.
235 - Remove unnecessary casts from LCN_* constants.
236 - Implement fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock().
237 - Add MFT_RECORD_OLD as a copy of MFT_RECORD in fs/ntfs/layout.h and
238 change MFT_RECORD to contain the NTFS 3.1+ specific fields.
239 - Add a helper function fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which
240 marks all buffers belonging to an ntfs record dirty, followed by
241 marking the page the ntfs record is in dirty and also marking the vfs
242 inode containing the ntfs record dirty (I_DIRTY_PAGES).
243 - Switch fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to using the
244 new helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and remove the no
245 longer needed fs/ntfs/index.[hc]::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty().
246 - Move ntfs_{un,}map_page() from ntfs.h to aops.h and fix resulting
247 include errors.
248 - Move the typedefs for runlist_element and runlist from types.h to
249 runlist.h and fix resulting include errors.
250 - Remove unused {__,}format_mft_record() from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
251 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::__mark_mft_record_dirty() to use the helper
252 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which also changes the behaviour in that we
253 now set the buffers belonging to the mft record dirty as well as the
254 page itself.
255 - Update fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and sync_mft_mirror()
256 to cope with the fact that there now are dirty buffers in mft pages.
257 - Update fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode() to also use the helper
258 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and thus to set the buffers belonging to the
259 mft record dirty as well as the page itself.
260 - Fix compiler warnings on x86-64 in fs/ntfs/dir.c. (Randy Dunlap,
261 slightly modified by me)
262 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record() which fails with -EALREADY if
263 the mft record is already locked and otherwise behaves the same way
264 as fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_mft_record().
265 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() so that it only
266 writes the mft record if the buffers belonging to it are dirty.
267 Otherwise we assume that it was written out by other means already.
268 - Attempting to write outside initialized size is _not_ a bug so remove
269 the bug check from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(). It is in
270 fact required to write outside initialized size when preparing to
271 extend the initialized size.
272 - Map the page instead of using page_address() before writing to it in
273 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mft_writepage().
274 - Provide exclusion between opening an inode / mapping an mft record
275 and accessing the mft record in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage()
276 by setting the page not uptodate throughout ntfs_mft_writepage().
277 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block()
278 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
279 - Add the helper fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_may_write_mft_record() which
280 checks if an mft record may be written out safely obtaining any
281 necessary locks in the process. This is used by
282 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block().
283 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to also work for
284 writing mft records and improve its error handling in the process.
285 Now if any of the records in the page fail to be written out, all
286 other records will be written out instead of aborting completely.
287 - Remove ntfs_mft_aops and update all users to use ntfs_mst_aops.
288 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to set the
289 ntfs_mst_aops for all inodes which are NInoMstProtected() and
290 ntfs_aops for all other inodes.
291 - Rename fs/ntfs/mft.c::sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() to
292 ntfs_sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() and change their parameters so they
293 no longer require an ntfs inode to be present. Update all callers.
294 - Cleanup the error handling in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
295 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror()
296 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
297 - Remove the no longer needed fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() and
298 fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record().
299 - Fix callers of fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to call it
300 with the ntfs inode which contains the page rather than the ntfs
301 inode the mft record of which is in the page.
302 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by moving the
303 index inode bitmap inode release code from there to
304 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_clear_big_inode(). (Thanks to Christoph
305 Hellwig for spotting this.)
306 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by taking the
307 inode semaphore around the code that sets ni->itype.index.bmp_ino to
308 NULL and reorganize the code to optimize it a bit. (Thanks to
309 Christoph Hellwig for spotting this.)
310 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to no longer take the
311 ntfs inode as a parameter as this is confusing and misleading and the
312 needed ntfs inode is available via NTFS_I(page->mapping->host).
313 Adapt all callers to this change.
314 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and
315 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to only check the dirty state
316 of the first buffer in a record and to take this as the ntfs record
317 dirty state. We cannot look at the dirty state for subsequent
318 buffers because we might be racing with
319 fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty().
320 - Move the static inline ntfs_init_big_inode() from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
321 inode.h and make fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_init_inode() non-static and
322 add a declaration for it to inode.h. Fix some compilation issues
323 that resulted due to #includes and header file interdependencies.
324 - Simplify setup of i_mode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode().
325 - Add helpers fs/ntfs/layout.h::MK_MREF() and MK_LE_MREF().
326 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() to only verify the mft
327 record sequence number if it is specified (i.e. not zero).
328 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_alloc() and various helper
329 functions used by it.
330 - Update Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt with instructions on how to
331 use the Device-Mapper driver with NTFS ftdisk/LDM raid. This removes
332 the linear raid problem with the Software RAID / MD driver when one
333 or more of the devices has an odd number of sectors.
334
3352.1.20 - Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release.
336
337 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx()
338 where we did not clear ctx->al_entry but it was still set due to
339 changes in ntfs_attr_lookup() and ntfs_external_attr_find() in
340 particular.
341 - Fix another stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find()
342 where we forgot to unmap the extent mft record when we had finished
343 enumerating an attribute which caused a bug check to trigger when the
344 VFS calls ->clear_inode.
345
3462.1.19 - Many cleanups, improvements, and a minor bug fix.
347
348 - Update ->setattr (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) to refuse to
349 change the uid, gid, and mode of an inode as we do not support NTFS
350 ACLs yet.
351 - Remove BKL use from ntfs_setattr() syncing up with the rest of the
352 kernel.
353 - Get rid of the ugly transparent union in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir()
354 and ntfs_filldir() as per suggestion from Al Viro.
355 - Change '\0' and L'\0' to simply 0 as per advice from Linus Torvalds.
356 - Update ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) to check if the
357 inode size has changed and to only output an error if so.
358 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.h::attribute_value_length() to ntfs_attr_size().
359 - Add le{16,32,64} as well as sle{16,32,64} data types to
360 fs/ntfs/types.h.
361 - Change ntfschar to be le16 instead of u16 in fs/ntfs/types.h.
362 - Add le versions of VCN, LCN, and LSN called leVCN, leLCN, and leLSN,
363 respectively, to fs/ntfs/types.h.
364 - Update endianness conversion macros in fs/ntfs/endian.h to use the
365 new types as appropriate.
366 - Do proper type casting when using sle64_to_cpup() in fs/ntfs/dir.c
367 and index.c.
368 - Add leMFT_REF data type to fs/ntfs/layout.h.
369 - Update all NTFS header files with the new little endian data types.
370 Affected files are fs/ntfs/layout.h, logfile.h, and time.h.
371 - Do proper type casting when using ntfs_is_*_recordp() in
372 fs/ntfs/logfile.c, mft.c, and super.c.
373 - Fix all the sparse bitwise warnings. Had to change all the typedef
374 enums storing little endian values to simple enums plus a typedef for
375 the datatype to make sparse happy.
376 - Fix a bug found by the new sparse bitwise warnings where the default
377 upcase table was defined as a pointer to wchar_t rather than ntfschar
378 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h and super.c.
379 - Change {const_,}cpu_to_le{16,32}(0) to just 0 as suggested by Al Viro.
380
3812.1.18 - Fix scheduling latencies at mount time as well as an endianness bug.
382
383 - Remove vol->nr_mft_records as it was pretty meaningless and optimize
384 the calculation of total/free inodes as used by statfs().
385 - Fix scheduling latencies in ntfs_fill_super() by dropping the BKL
386 because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock semaphore which
387 provides safe locking. (Ingo Molnar)
388 - Fix a potential bug in fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() that
389 could occur in the future for when we start closing/freeing extent
390 inodes if we don't set base_ni->ext.extent_ntfs_inos to NULL after
391 we free it.
392 - Rename {find,lookup}_attr() to ntfs_attr_{find,lookup}() as well as
393 find_external_attr() to ntfs_external_attr_find() to cleanup the
394 namespace a bit and to be more consistent with libntfs.
395 - Rename {{re,}init,get,put}_attr_search_ctx() to
396 ntfs_attr_{{re,}init,get,put}_search_ctx() as well as the type
397 attr_search_context to ntfs_attr_search_ctx.
398 - Force use of ntfs_attr_find() in ntfs_attr_lookup() when searching
399 for the attribute list attribute itself.
400 - Fix endianness bug in ntfs_external_attr_find().
401 - Change ntfs_{external_,}attr_find() to return 0 on success, -ENOENT
402 if the attribute is not found, and -EIO on real error. In the case
403 of -ENOENT, the search context is updated to describe the attribute
404 before which the attribute being searched for would need to be
405 inserted if such an action were to be desired and in the case of
406 ntfs_external_attr_find() the search context is also updated to
407 indicate the attribute list entry before which the attribute list
408 entry of the attribute being searched for would need to be inserted
409 if such an action were to be desired. Also make ntfs_find_attr()
410 static and remove its prototype from attrib.h as it is not used
411 anywhere other than attrib.c. Update ntfs_attr_lookup() and all
412 callers of ntfs_{external,}attr_{find,lookup}() for the new return
413 values.
414 - Minor cleanup of fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_init_locked_inode().
415
4162.1.17 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths and other updates.
417
418 - Implement bitmap modification code (fs/ntfs/bitmap.[hc]). This
419 includes functions to set/clear a single bit or a run of bits.
420 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_find_vcn() which returns the locked
421 runlist element containing a particular vcn. It also takes care of
422 mapping any needed runlist fragments.
423 - Implement cluster (de-)allocation code (fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.[hc]).
424 - Load attribute definition table from $AttrDef at mount time.
425 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths involving (de)allocation of
426 the default and volume upcase tables.
427 - Remove ntfs_nr_mounts as it is no longer used.
428
4292.1.16 - Implement access time updates, file sync, async io, and read/writev.
430
431 - Add support for readv/writev and aio_read/aio_write (fs/ntfs/file.c).
432 This is done by setting the appropriate file operations pointers to
433 the generic helper functions provided by mm/filemap.c.
434 - Implement fsync, fdatasync, and msync both for files (fs/ntfs/file.c)
435 and directories (fs/ntfs/dir.c).
436 - Add support for {a,m,c}time updates to inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().
437 Note, except for the root directory and any other system files opened
438 by the user, the system files will not have their access times
439 updated as they are only accessed at the inode level an hence the
440 file level functions which cause the times to be updated are never
441 invoked.
442
4432.1.15 - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
444
445 - Add new element itype.index.collation_rule to the ntfs inode
446 structure and set it appropriately in ntfs_read_locked_inode().
447 - Implement a new inode type "index" to allow efficient access to the
448 indices found in various system files and adapt inode handling
449 accordingly (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]). An index inode is essentially an
450 attribute inode (NInoAttr() is true) with an attribute type of
451 AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION. As such, it is no longer allowed to call
452 ntfs_attr_iget() with an attribute type of AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION as
453 there would be no way to distinguish between normal attribute inodes
454 and index inodes. The function to obtain an index inode is
455 ntfs_index_iget() and it uses the helper function
456 ntfs_read_locked_index_inode(). Note, we do not overload
457 ntfs_attr_iget() as indices consist of multiple attributes so using
458 ntfs_attr_iget() to obtain an index inode would be confusing.
459 - Ensure that there is no overflow when doing page->index <<
460 PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT by casting page->index to s64 in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
461 - Use atomic kmap instead of kmap() in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page()
462 and ntfs_read_block().
463 - Use case sensitive attribute lookups instead of case insensitive ones.
464 - Lock all page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes while
465 accessing them to ensure we never see corrupt data while the page is
466 under writeout.
467 - Add framework for generic ntfs collation (fs/ntfs/collation.[hc]).
468 We have ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported() to check if the collation
469 rule you want to use is supported and ntfs_collation() which actually
470 collates two data items. We currently only support COLLATION_BINARY
471 and COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG but support for other collation rules will
472 be added as the need arises.
473 - Add a new type, ntfs_index_context, to allow retrieval of an index
474 entry using the corresponding index key. To get an index context,
475 use ntfs_index_ctx_get() and to release it, use ntfs_index_ctx_put().
476 This also adds a new slab cache for the index contexts. To lookup a
477 key in an index inode, use ntfs_index_lookup(). After modifying an
478 index entry, call ntfs_index_entry_flush_dcache_page() followed by
479 ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to ensure the changes are written out
480 to disk. For details see fs/ntfs/index.[hc]. Note, at present, if
481 an index entry is in the index allocation attribute rather than the
482 index root attribute it will not be written out (you will get a
483 warning message about discarded changes instead).
484 - Load the quota file ($Quota) and check if quota tracking is enabled
485 and if so, mark the quotas out of date. This causes windows to
486 rescan the volume on boot and update all quota entries.
487 - Add a set_page_dirty address space operation for ntfs_m[fs]t_aops.
488 It is simply set to __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() to make sure that
489 running set_page_dirty() on a page containing mft/ntfs records will
490 not affect the dirty state of the page buffers.
491 - Add fs/ntfs/index.c::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() which sets all
492 buffers that are inside the ntfs record in the page dirty after which
493 it sets the page dirty. This allows ->writepage to only write the
494 dirty index records rather than having to write all the records in
495 the page. Modify fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to
496 use this rather than __set_page_dirty_nobuffers().
497 - Implement fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() which enables the
498 writing of page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes
499 like the index allocation attribute in directory indices and other
500 indices like $Quota/$Q, etc. This means that the quota is now marked
501 out of date on all volumes rather than only on ones where the quota
502 defaults entry is in the index root attribute of the $Quota/$Q index.
503
5042.1.14 - Fix an NFSd caused deadlock reported by several users.
505
506 - Modify fs/ntfs/ntfs_readdir() to copy the index root attribute value
507 to a buffer so that we can put the search context and unmap the mft
508 record before calling the filldir() callback. We need to do this
509 because of NFSd which calls ->lookup() from its filldir callback()
510 and this causes NTFS to deadlock as ntfs_lookup() maps the mft record
511 of the directory and since ntfs_readdir() has got it mapped already
512 ntfs_lookup() deadlocks.
513
5142.1.13 - Enable overwriting of resident files and housekeeping of system files.
515
516 - Implement writing of mft records (fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]), which includes
517 keeping the mft mirror in sync with the mft when mirrored mft records
518 are written. The functions are write_mft_record{,_nolock}(). The
519 implementation is quite rudimentary for now with lots of things not
520 implemented yet but I am not sure any of them can actually occur so
521 I will wait for people to hit each one and only then implement it.
522 - Commit open system inodes at umount time. This should make it
523 virtually impossible for sync_mft_mirror_umount() to ever be needed.
524 - Implement ->write_inode (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode()) for the
525 ntfs super operations. This gives us inode writing via the VFS inode
526 dirty code paths. Note: Access time updates are not implemented yet.
527 - Implement fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::{,__}mark_mft_record_dirty() and make
528 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and ntfs_commit_write() use it, thus
529 finally enabling resident file overwrite! (-8 This also includes a
530 placeholder for ->writepage (ntfs_mft_writepage()), which for now
531 just redirties the page and returns. Also, at umount time, we for
532 now throw away all mft data page cache pages after the last call to
533 ntfs_commit_inode() in the hope that all inodes will have been
534 written out by then and hence no dirty (meta)data will be lost. We
535 also check for this case and emit an error message telling the user
536 to run chkdsk.
537 - Use set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback() in the resident
538 attribute code path of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() otherwise
539 the radix-tree tag PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the
540 page is clean.
541 - Implement ntfs_mft_writepage() so it now checks if any of the mft
542 records in the page are dirty and if so redirties the page and
543 returns. Otherwise it just returns (after doing set_page_writeback(),
544 unlock_page(), end_page_writeback() or the radix-tree tag
545 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the page is clean), thus
546 alowing the VM to do with the page as it pleases. Also, at umount
547 time, now only throw away dirty mft (meta)data pages if dirty inodes
548 are present and ask the user to email us if they see this happening.
549 - Add functions ntfs_{clear,set}_volume_flags(), to modify the volume
550 information flags (fs/ntfs/super.c).
551 - Mark the volume dirty when (re)mounting read-write and mark it clean
552 when unmounting or remounting read-only. If any volume errors are
553 found, the volume is left marked dirty to force chkdsk to run.
554 - Add code to set the NT4 compatibility flag when (re)mounting
555 read-write for newer NTFS versions but leave it commented out for now
556 since we do not make any modifications that are NTFS 1.2 specific yet
557 and since setting this flag breaks Captive-NTFS which is not nice.
558 This code must be enabled once we start writing NTFS 1.2 specific
559 changes otherwise Windows NTFS driver might crash / cause corruption.
560
5612.1.12 - Fix the second fix to the decompression engine and some cleanups.
562
563 - Add a new address space operations struct, ntfs_mst_aops, for mst
564 protected attributes. This is because the default ntfs_aops do not
565 make sense with mst protected data and were they to write anything to
566 such an attribute they would cause data corruption so we provide
567 ntfs_mst_aops which does not have any write related operations set.
568 - Cleanup dirty ntfs inode handling (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]) which also
569 includes an adapted ntfs_commit_inode() and an implementation of
570 ntfs_write_inode() which for now just cleans dirty inodes without
571 writing them (it does emit a warning that this is happening).
572 - Undo the second decompression engine fix (see 2.1.9 release ChangeLog
573 entry) as it was only fixing a theoretical bug but at the same time
574 it badly broke the handling of sparse and uncompressed compression
575 blocks.
576
5772.1.11 - Driver internal cleanups.
578
579 - Only build logfile.o if building the driver with read-write support.
580 - Really final white space cleanups.
581 - Use generic_ffs() instead of ffs() in logfile.c which allows the
582 log_page_size variable to be optimized by gcc into a constant.
583 - Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere as uchar_t is unsigned 1-byte
584 char as defined by POSIX and as found on some systems.
585
5862.1.10 - Force read-only (re)mounting of volumes with unsupported volume flags.
587
588 - Finish off the white space cleanups (remove trailing spaces, etc).
589 - Clean up ntfs_fill_super() and ntfs_read_inode_mount() by removing
590 the kludges around the first iget(). Instead of (re)setting ->s_op
591 we have the $MFT inode set up by explicit new_inode() / set ->i_ino /
592 insert_inode_hash() / call ntfs_read_inode_mount() directly. This
593 kills the need for second super_operations and allows to return error
594 from ntfs_read_inode_mount() without resorting to ugly "poisoning"
595 tricks. (Al Viro)
596 - Force read-only (re)mounting if any of the following bits are set in
597 the volume information flags:
598 VOLUME_IS_DIRTY, VOLUME_RESIZE_LOG_FILE,
599 VOLUME_UPGRADE_ON_MOUNT, VOLUME_DELETE_USN_UNDERWAY,
600 VOLUME_REPAIR_OBJECT_ID, VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK
601 To make this easier we define VOLUME_MUST_MOUNT_RO_MASK with all the
602 above bits set so the test is made easy.
603
6042.1.9 - Fix two bugs in decompression engine.
605
606 - Fix a bug where we would not always detect that we have reached the
607 end of a compression block because we were ending at minus one byte
608 which is effectively the same as being at the end. The fix is to
609 check whether the uncompressed buffer has been fully filled and if so
610 we assume we have reached the end of the compression block. A big
611 thank you to Marcin Gibuła for the bug report, the assistance in
612 tracking down the bug and testing the fix.
613 - Fix a possible bug where when a compressed read is truncated to the
614 end of the file, the offset inside the last page was not truncated.
615
6162.1.8 - Handle $MFT mirror and $LogFile, improve time handling, and cleanups.
617
618 - Use get_bh() instead of manual atomic_inc() in fs/ntfs/compress.c.
619 - Modify fs/ntfs/time.c::ntfs2utc(), get_current_ntfs_time(), and
620 utc2ntfs() to work with struct timespec instead of time_t on the
621 Linux UTC time side thus preserving the full precision of the NTFS
622 time and only loosing up to 99 nano-seconds in the Linux UTC time.
623 - Move fs/ntfs/time.c to fs/ntfs/time.h and make the time functions
624 static inline.
625 - Remove unused ntfs_dirty_inode().
626 - Cleanup super operations declaration in fs/ntfs/super.c.
627 - Wrap flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in #ifdef NTFS_RW.
628 - Add NInoTestSetFoo() and NInoTestClearFoo() macro magic to
629 fs/ntfs/inode.h and use it to declare NInoTest{Set,Clear}Dirty.
630 - Move typedefs for ntfs_attr and test_t from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
631 fs/ntfs/inode.h so they can be used elsewhere.
632 - Determine the mft mirror size as the number of mirrored mft records
633 and store it in ntfs_volume->mftmirr_size (fs/ntfs/super.c).
634 - Load the mft mirror at mount time and compare the mft records stored
635 in it to the ones in the mft. Force a read-only mount if the two do
636 not match (fs/ntfs/super.c).
637 - Fix type casting related warnings on 64-bit architectures. Thanks
638 to Meelis Roos for reporting them.
639 - Move %L to %ll as %L is floating point and %ll is integer which is
640 what we want.
641 - Read the journal ($LogFile) and determine if the volume has been
642 shutdown cleanly and force a read-only mount if not (fs/ntfs/super.c
643 and fs/ntfs/logfile.c). This is a little bit of a crude check in
644 that we only look at the restart areas and not at the actual log
645 records so that there will be a very small number of cases where we
646 think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean. This should
647 only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly and did not
648 have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o.
649 - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a read-write (re)mount
650 is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it with 0xff bytes to
651 ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale
652 journal after Linux has written to the volume.
653
6542.1.7 - Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes.
655
656 - Set i_generation in the VFS inode from the seq_no of the NTFS inode.
657 - Make ntfs_lookup() NFS export safe, i.e. use d_splice_alias(), etc.
658 - Implement ->get_dentry() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_dentry() as the
659 default doesn't allow inode number 0 which is a valid inode on NTFS
660 and even if it did allow that it uses iget() instead of ntfs_iget()
661 which makes it useless for us.
662 - Implement ->get_parent() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_parent() as the
663 default just returns -EACCES which is not very useful.
664 - Define export operations (->s_export_op) for NTFS (ntfs_export_ops)
665 and set them up in the super block at mount time (super.c) this
666 allows mounted NTFS volumes to be exported via NFS.
667 - Add missing return -EOPNOTSUPP; in
668 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write().
669 - Enforce no atime and no dir atime updates at mount/remount time as
670 they are not implemented yet anyway.
671 - Move a few assignments in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::load_attribute_list() to
672 after a NULL check. Thanks to Dave Jones for pointing this out.
673
6742.1.6 - Fix minor bug in handling of compressed directories.
675
676 - Fix bug in handling of compressed directories. A compressed
677 directory is not really compressed so when we set the ->i_blocks
678 field of a compressed directory inode we were setting it from the
679 non-existing field ni->itype.compressed.size which gave random
680 results... For directories we now always use ni->allocated_size.
681
6822.1.5 - Fix minor bug in attribute list attribute handling.
683
684 - Fix bug in attribute list handling. Actually it is not as much a bug
685 as too much protection in that we were not allowing attribute lists
686 which waste space on disk while Windows XP clearly allows it and in
687 fact creates such attribute lists so our driver was failing.
688 - Update NTFS documentation ready for 2.6 kernel release.
689
6902.1.4 - Reduce compiler requirements.
691
692 - Remove all uses of unnamed structs and unions in the driver to make
693 old and newer gcc versions happy. Makes it a bit uglier IMO but at
694 least people will stop hassling me about it.
695
6962.1.3 - Important bug fixes in corner cases.
697
698 - super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Correct the check for 64-bit
699 clusters. (Philipp Thomas)
700 - attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a
701 multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs
702 Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>)
703
7042.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs.
705
706 - Fix buggy free cluster and free inode determination logic.
707
7082.1.1 - Minor updates.
709
710 - Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files.
711 - Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in
712 fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.ord>)
713 - Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc.
714 - Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write()
715 around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write. Adapt NTFS appropriately
716 in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() by using
717 kmap_atomic(KM_USER0).
718
7192.1.0 - First steps towards write support: implement file overwrite.
720
721 - Add configuration option for developmental write support with an
722 appropriately scary configuration help text.
723 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its
724 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block(). This enables mmap(2) based
725 overwriting of existing files on ntfs. Note: Resident files are
726 only written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so
727 avoid writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
728 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_write(), its
729 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() and their
730 counterparts, fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_write(), and
731 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write(), respectively. Also,
732 add generic_file_write() to the ntfs file operations (fs/ntfs/file.c).
733 This enables write(2) based overwriting of existing files on ntfs.
734 Note: As with mmap(2) based overwriting, resident files are only
735 written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so avoid
736 writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
737 - Implement ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) and
738 ->setattr() (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) inode operations for
739 files with the purpose of intercepting and aborting all i_size
740 changes which we do not support yet. ntfs_truncate() actually only
741 emits a warning message but AFAICS our interception of i_size changes
742 elsewhere means ntfs_truncate() never gets called for i_size changes.
743 It is only called from generic_file_write() when we fail in
744 ntfs_prepare_{,nonresident_}write() in order to discard any
745 instantiated buffers beyond i_size. Thus i_size is not actually
746 changed so our warning message is enough. Unfortunately it is not
747 possible to easily determine if i_size is being changed or not hence
748 we just emit an appropriately worded error message.
749
7502.0.25 - Small bug fixes and cleanups.
751
752 - Unlock the page in an out of memory error code path in
753 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
754 - If fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page() is called on an uptodate page,
755 just unlock the page and return. (This can happen due to ->writepage
756 clearing PageUptodate() during write out of MstProtected()
757 attributes.
758 - Remove leaked write code again.
759
7602.0.24 - Cleanups.
761
762 - Treat BUG_ON() as ASSERT() not VERIFY(), i.e. do not use side effects
763 inside BUG_ON(). (Adam J. Richter)
764 - Split logical OR expressions inside BUG_ON() into individual BUG_ON()
765 calls for improved debugging. (Adam J. Richter)
766 - Add errors flag to the ntfs volume state, accessed via
767 NVol{,Set,Clear}Errors(vol).
768 - Do not allow read-write remounts of read-only volumes with errors.
769 - Clarify comment for ntfs file operation sendfile which was added by
770 Christoph Hellwig a while ago (just using generic_file_sendfile())
771 to say that ntfs ->sendfile is only used for the case where the
772 source data is on the ntfs partition and the destination is
773 somewhere else, i.e. nothing we need to concern ourselves with.
774 - Add generic_file_write() as our ntfs file write operation.
775
7762.0.23 - Major bug fixes (races, deadlocks, non-i386 architectures).
777
778 - Massive internal locking changes to mft record locking. Fixes lock
779 recursion and replaces the mrec_lock read/write semaphore with a
780 mutex. Also removes the now superfluous mft_count. This fixes several
781 race conditions and deadlocks, especially in the future write code.
782 - Fix ntfs over loopback for compressed files by adding an
783 optimization barrier. (gcc was screwing up otherwise ?)
784 - Miscellaneous cleanups all over the code and a fix or two in error
785 handling code paths.
786 Thanks go to Christoph Hellwig for pointing out the following two:
787 - Remove now unused function fs/ntfs/malloc.h::vmalloc_nofs().
788 - Fix ntfs_free() for ia64 and parisc by checking for VMALLOC_END, too.
789
7902.0.22 - Cleanups, mainly to ntfs_readdir(), and use C99 initializers.
791
792 - Change fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_reddir() to only read/write ->f_pos once
793 at entry/exit respectively.
794 - Use C99 initializers for structures.
795 - Remove unused variable blocks from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
796
7972.0.21 - Check for, and refuse to work with too large files/directories/volumes.
798
799 - Limit volume size at mount time to 2TiB on architectures where
800 unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector()).
801 This is the most we can do without overflowing the 32-bit limit of
802 the block device size imposed on us by sb_bread() and sb_getblk()
803 for the time being.
804 - Limit file/directory size at open() time to 16TiB on architectures
805 where unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open() and
806 fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_dir_open()). This is the most we can do without
807 overflowing the page cache page index.
808
8092.0.20 - Support non-resident directory index bitmaps, fix page leak in readdir.
810
811 - Move the directory index bitmap to use an attribute inode instead of
812 having special fields for it inside the ntfs inode structure. This
813 means that the index bitmaps now use the page cache for i/o, too,
814 and also as a side effect we get support for non-resident index
815 bitmaps for free.
816 - Simplify/cleanup error handling in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() and
817 fix a page leak that manifested itself in some cases.
818 - Add fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(), which we need to release the
819 index bitmap inode on the final iput().
820
8212.0.19 - Fix race condition, improvements, and optimizations in i/o interface.
822
823 - Apply block optimization added to fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block()
824 to fs/ntfs/compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() as well.
825 - Drop the "file" from ntfs_file_read_compressed_block().
826 - Rename fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_enb_buffer_read_async() to
827 ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() (more like the fs/buffer.c counterpart).
828 - Update ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() with the improved logic from
829 its updated counterpart fs/buffer.c::end_buffer_async_read(). Apply
830 further logic improvements to better determine when we set PageError.
831 - Update submission of buffers in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
832 check for the buffers being uptodate first in line with the updated
833 fs/buffer.c::block_read_full_page(). This plugs a small race
834 condition.
835
8362.0.18 - Fix race condition in reading of compressed files.
837
838 - There was a narrow window between checking a buffer head for being
839 uptodate and locking it in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block(). We now
840 lock the buffer and then check whether it is uptodate or not.
841
8422.0.17 - Cleanups and optimizations - shrinking the ToDo list.
843
844 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to return an error
845 code and update callers, i.e. ntfs_iget(), to pass that error code
846 up instead of just using -EIO.
847 - Modifications to super.c to ensure that both mount and remount
848 cannot set any write related options when the driver is compiled
849 read-only.
850 - Optimize block resolution in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
851 cache the current runlist element. This should improve performance
852 when reading very large and/or very fragmented data.
853
8542.0.16 - Convert access to $MFT/$BITMAP to attribute inode API.
855
856 - Fix a stupid bug introduced in 2.0.15 where we were unmapping the
857 wrong inode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_attr_iget().
858 - Fix debugging check in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
859 - Convert $MFT/$BITMAP access to attribute inode API and remove all
860 remnants of the ugly mftbmp address space and operations hack. This
861 means we finally have only one readpage function as well as only one
862 async io completion handler. Yey! The mft bitmap is now just an
863 attribute inode and is accessed from vol->mftbmp_ino just as if it
864 were a normal file. Fake inodes rule. (-:
865
8662.0.15 - Fake inodes based attribute i/o via the pagecache, fixes and cleanups.
867
868 - Fix silly bug in fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_options() which was causing
869 remounts to fail when the partition had an entry in /etc/fstab and
870 the entry specified the nls= option.
871 - Apply same macro magic used in fs/ntfs/inode.h to fs/ntfs/volume.h to
872 expand all the helper functions NVolFoo(), NVolSetFoo(), and
873 NVolClearFoo().
874 - Move copyright statement from driver initialisation message to
875 module description (fs/super.c). This makes the initialisation
876 message fit on one line and fits in better with rest of kernel.
877 - Update fs/ntfs/attrib.c::map_run_list() to work on both real and
878 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
879 - Implement fake attribute inodes allowing all attribute i/o to go via
880 the page cache and to use all the normal vfs/mm functionality:
881 - Add ntfs_attr_iget() and its helper ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode()
882 to fs/ntfs/inode.c.
883 - Add needed cleanup code to ntfs_clear_big_inode().
884 - Merge address space operations for files and directories (aops.c),
885 now just have ntfs_aops:
886 - Rename:
887 end_buffer_read_attr_async() -> ntfs_end_buffer_read_async(),
888 ntfs_attr_read_block() -> ntfs_read_block(),
889 ntfs_file_read_page() -> ntfs_readpage().
890 - Rewrite fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_readpage() to work on both real and
891 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
892 - Remove obsolete fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage().
893
8942.0.14 - Run list merging code cleanup, minor locking changes, typo fixes.
895
896 - Change fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() to not rely on BKL by moving
897 the locking out of super.c::get_nr_free_mft_records() and taking and
898 dropping the mftbmp_lock rw_semaphore in ntfs_statfs() itself.
899 - Bring attribute runlist merging code (fs/ntfs/attrib.c) in sync with
900 current userspace ntfs library code. This means that if a merge
901 fails the original runlists are always left unmodified instead of
902 being silently corrupted.
903 - Misc typo fixes.
904
9052.0.13 - Use iget5_locked() in preparation for fake inodes and small cleanups.
906
907 - Remove nr_mft_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_mft_records
908 from ntfs_volume structure.
909 - Remove nr_lcn_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_clusters
910 from ntfs_volume structure.
911 - Use iget5_locked() and friends instead of conventional iget(). Wrap
912 the call in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_iget() and update callers of iget()
913 to use ntfs_iget(). Leave only one iget() call at mount time so we
914 don't need an ntfs_iget_mount().
915 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_new_extent_inode() to take mft_no as an
916 additional argument.
917
9182.0.12 - Initial cleanup of address space operations following 2.0.11 changes.
919
920 - Merge fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_mst_async() and
921 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_file_async() into one function
922 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_attr_async() using NInoMstProtected()
923 to determine whether to apply mst fixups or not.
924 - Above change allows merging fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_file_read_block()
925 and fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() into one function
926 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_attr_read_block(). Also, create a tiny wrapper
927 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() to transform the parameters from
928 the VFS readpage function prototype to the ntfs_attr_read_block()
929 function prototype.
930
9312.0.11 - Initial preparations for fake inode based attribute i/o.
932
933 - Move definition of ntfs_inode_state_bits to fs/ntfs/inode.h and
934 do some macro magic (adapted from include/linux/buffer_head.h) to
935 expand all the helper functions NInoFoo(), NInoSetFoo(), and
936 NInoClearFoo().
937 - Add new flag to ntfs_inode_state_bits: NI_Sparse.
938 - Add new fields to ntfs_inode structure to allow use of fake inodes
939 for attribute i/o: type, name, name_len. Also add new state bits:
940 NI_Attr, which, if set, indicates the inode is a fake inode, and
941 NI_MstProtected, which, if set, indicates the attribute uses multi
942 sector transfer protection, i.e. fixups need to be applied after
943 reads and before/after writes.
944 - Rename fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_inode() to
945 ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_extent_inode() and update callers.
946 - Use ntfs_clear_extent_inode() in fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_clear_inode()
947 instead of ntfs_destroy_extent_inode().
948 - Cleanup memory deallocations in {__,}ntfs_clear_{,big_}inode().
949 - Make all operations on ntfs inode state bits use the NIno* functions.
950 - Set up the new ntfs inode fields and state bits in
951 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_inode() and add appropriate cleanup of
952 allocated memory to __ntfs_clear_inode().
953 - Cleanup ntfs_inode structure a bit for better ordering of elements
954 w.r.t. their size to allow better packing of the structure in memory.
955
9562.0.10 - There can only be 2^32 - 1 inodes on an NTFS volume.
957
958 - Add check at mount time to verify that the number of inodes on the
959 volume does not exceed 2^32 - 1, which is the maximum allowed for
960 NTFS according to Microsoft.
961 - Change mft_no member of ntfs_inode structure to be unsigned long.
962 Update all users. This makes ntfs_inode->mft_no just a copy of struct
963 inode->i_ino. But we can't just always use struct inode->i_ino and
964 remove mft_no because extent inodes do not have an attached struct
965 inode.
966
9672.0.9 - Decompression engine now uses a single buffer and other cleanups.
968
969 - Change decompression engine to use a single buffer protected by a
970 spin lock instead of per-CPU buffers. (Rusty Russell)
971 - Do not update cb_pos when handling a partial final page during
972 decompression of a sparse compression block, as the value is later
973 reset without being read/used. (Rusty Russell)
974 - Switch to using the new KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ for atomic kmap()s. (Andrew
975 Morton)
976 - Change buffer size in ntfs_readdir()/ntfs_filldir() to use
977 NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE which makes the buffers almost 1kiB each but
978 it also makes everything safer so it is a good thing.
979 - Miscellaneous minor cleanups to comments.
980
9812.0.8 - Major updates for handling of case sensitivity and dcache aliasing.
982
983 Big thanks go to Al Viro and other inhabitants of #kernel for investing
984 their time to discuss the case sensitivity and dcache aliasing issues.
985
986 - Remove unused source file fs/ntfs/attraops.c.
987 - Remove show_inodes mount option(s), thus dropping support for
988 displaying of short file names.
989 - Remove deprecated mount option posix.
990 - Restore show_sys_files mount option.
991 - Add new mount option case_sensitive, to determine if the driver
992 treats file names as case sensitive or not. If case sensitive, create
993 file names in the POSIX namespace. Otherwise create file names in the
994 LONG/WIN32 namespace. Note, files remain accessible via their short
995 file name, if it exists.
996 - Remove really dumb logic bug in boot sector recovery code.
997 - Fix dcache aliasing issues wrt short/long file names via changes
998 to fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() and
999 fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup():
1000 - Add additional argument to ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() in which we
1001 return information about the matching file name if the case is not
1002 matching or the match is a short file name. See comments above the
1003 function definition for details.
1004 - Change ntfs_lookup() to only create dcache entries for the correctly
1005 cased file name and only for the WIN32 namespace counterpart of DOS
1006 namespace file names. This ensures we have only one dentry per
1007 directory and also removes all dcache aliasing issues between short
1008 and long file names once we add write support. See comments above
1009 function for details.
1010 - Fix potential 1 byte overflow in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_ucstonls().
1011
10122.0.7 - Minor cleanups and updates for changes in core kernel code.
1013
1014 - Remove much of the NULL struct element initializers.
1015 - Various updates to make compatible with recent kernels.
1016 - Remove defines of MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE and include linux/buffer_head.h
1017 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h instead.
1018 - Remove no longer needed KERNEL_VERSION checks. We are now in the
1019 kernel proper so they are no longer needed.
1020
10212.0.6 - Major bugfix to make compatible with other kernel changes.
1022
1023 - Initialize the mftbmp address space properly now that there are more
1024 fields in the struct address_space. This was leading to hangs and
1025 oopses on umount since 2.5.12 because of changes to other parts of
1026 the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space()
1027 function...
1028 - Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The
1029 only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_sem during
1030 the call, and i_sem is sufficient protection against changes in the
1031 directory inode (including ->i_size).
1032 - Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to
1033 default_llseek()) as this downs i_sem instead of the BKL which is
1034 what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we
1035 no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir().
1036
10372.0.5 - Major bugfix. Buffer overflow in extent inode handling.
1038
1039 - No need to set old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as the
1040 VFS does so via invocation of deactivate_super() calling
1041 fs->fill_super() calling block_kill_super() which does it.
1042 - BKL moved from VFS into dir.c::ntfs_readdir(). (Linus Torvalds)
1043 -> Do we really need it? I don't think so as we have exclusion on
1044 the directory ntfs_inode rw_semaphore mrec_lock. We mmight have to
1045 move the ->f_pos accesses under the mrec_lock though. Check this...
1046 - Fix really, really, really stupid buffer overflow in extent inode
1047 handling in mft.c::map_extent_mft_record().
1048
10492.0.4 - Cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.11.
1050
1051 - Add documentation on how to use the MD driver to be able to use NTFS
1052 stripe and volume sets in Linux and generally cleanup documentation
1053 a bit.
1054 Remove all uses of kdev_t in favour of struct block_device *:
1055 - Change compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() to use
1056 sb_getblk() instead of getblk().
1057 - Change super.c::ntfs_fill_super() to use bdev_hardsect_size() instead
1058 of get_hardsect_size().
1059 - No need to get old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as
1060 fs/super.c::get_sb_bdev() already does this.
1061 - Set bh->b_bdev instead of bh->b_dev throughout aops.c.
1062
10632.0.3 - Small bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements.
1064
1065 - Remove some dead code from mft.c.
1066 - Optimize readpage and read_block functions throughout aops.c so that
1067 only initialized blocks are read. Non-initialized ones have their
1068 buffer head mapped, zeroed, and set up to date, without scheduling
1069 any i/o. Thanks to Al Viro for advice on how to avoid the device i/o.
1070 Thanks go to Andrew Morton for spotting the below:
1071 - Fix buglet in allocate_compression_buffers() error code path.
1072 - Call flush_dcache_page() after modifying page cache page contents in
1073 ntfs_file_readpage().
1074 - Check for existence of page buffers throughout aops.c before calling
1075 create_empty_buffers(). This happens when an I/O error occurs and the
1076 read is retried. (It also happens once writing is implemented so that
1077 needed doing anyway but I had left it for later...)
1078 - Don't BUG_ON() uptodate and/or mapped buffers throughout aops.c in
1079 readpage and read_block functions. Reasoning same as above (i.e. I/O
1080 error retries and future write code paths.)
1081
10822.0.2 - Minor updates and cleanups.
1083
1084 - Cleanup: rename mst.c::__post_read_mst_fixup to post_write_mst_fixup
1085 and cleanup the code a bit, removing the unused size parameter.
1086 - Change default fmask to 0177 and update documentation.
1087 - Change attrib.c::get_attr_search_ctx() to return the search context
1088 directly instead of taking the address of a pointer. A return value
1089 of NULL means the allocation failed. Updated all callers
1090 appropriately.
1091 - Update to 2.5.9 kernel (preserving backwards compatibility) by
1092 replacing all occurences of page->buffers with page_buffers(page).
1093 - Fix minor bugs in runlist merging, also minor cleanup.
1094 - Updates to bootsector layout and mft mirror contents descriptions.
1095 - Small bug fix in error detection in unistr.c and some cleanups.
1096 - Grow name buffer allocations in unistr.c in aligned mutlipled of 64
1097 bytes.
1098
10992.0.1 - Minor updates.
1100
1101 - Make default umask correspond to documentation.
1102 - Improve documentation.
1103 - Set default mode to include execute bit. The {u,f,d}mask can be used
1104 to take it away if desired. This allows binaries to be executed from
1105 a mounted ntfs partition.
1106
11072.0.0 - New version number. Remove TNG from the name. Now in the kernel.
1108
1109 - Add kill_super, just keeping up with the vfs changes in the kernel.
1110 - Repeat some changes from tng-0.0.8 that somehow got lost on the way
1111 from the CVS import into BitKeeper.
1112 - Begin to implement proper handling of allocated_size vs
1113 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size). Done are
1114 mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage(), aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async(),
1115 and attrib.c::load_attribute_list().
1116 - Lock the runlist in attrib.c::load_attribute_list() while using it.
1117 - Fix memory leak in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() and generally
1118 clean up compress.c a little, removing some uncommented/unused debug
1119 code.
1120 - Tidy up dir.c a little bit.
1121 - Don't bother getting the runlist in inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1122 - Merge mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage() and aops.c::ntfs_index_readpage()
1123 creating aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage(), improving the handling of
1124 holes and overflow in the process and implementing the correct
1125 equivalent of ntfs_file_get_block() in ntfs_mst_readpage() itself.
1126 I am aiming for correctness at the moment. Modularisation can come
1127 later.
1128 - Rename aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async() to
1129 end_buffer_read_mst_async() and optimize the overflow checking and
1130 handling.
1131 - Use the host of the mftbmp address space mapping to hold the ntfs
1132 volume. This is needed so the async i/o completion handler can
1133 retrieve a pointer to the volume. Hopefully this will not cause
1134 problems elsewhere in the kernel... Otherwise will need to use a
1135 fake inode.
1136 - Complete implementation of proper handling of allocated_size vs
1137 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size) in whole driver.
1138 Basically aops.c is now completely rewritten.
1139 - Change NTFS driver name to just NTFS and set version number to 2.0.0
1140 to make a clear distinction from the old driver which is still on
1141 version 1.1.22.
1142
1143tng-0.0.8 - 08/03/2002 - Now using BitKeeper, http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/
1144
1145 - Replace bdevname(sb->s_dev) with sb->s_id.
1146 - Remove now superfluous new-line characters in all callers of
1147 ntfs_debug().
1148 - Apply kludge in ntfs_read_inode(), setting i_nlink to 1 for
1149 directories. Without this the "find" utility gets very upset which is
1150 fair enough as Linux/Unix do not support directory hard links.
1151 - Further runlist merging work. (Richard Russon)
1152 - Backwards compatibility for gcc-2.95. (Richard Russon)
1153 - Update to kernel 2.5.5-pre1 and rediff the now tiny patch.
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001154 - Convert to new filesystem declaration using ->ntfs_get_sb() and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001155 replacing ntfs_read_super() with ntfs_fill_super().
1156 - Set s_maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to avoid page cache page index
1157 overflow on 32-bit architectures.
1158 - Cleanup upcase loading code to use ntfs_(un)map_page().
1159 - Disable/reenable preemtion in critical sections of compession engine.
1160 - Replace device size determination in ntfs_fill_super() with
1161 sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_size (in bytes) and remove now superfluous
1162 function super.c::get_nr_blocks().
1163 - Implement a mount time option (show_inodes) allowing choice of which
1164 types of inode names readdir() returns and modify ntfs_filldir()
1165 accordingly. There are several parameters to show_inodes:
1166 system: system files
1167 win32: long file names (including POSIX file names) [DEFAULT]
1168 long: same as win32
1169 dos: short file names only (excluding POSIX file names)
1170 short: same as dos
1171 posix: same as both win32 and dos
1172 all: all file names
1173 Note that the options are additive, i.e. specifying:
1174 -o show_inodes=system,show_inodes=win32,show_inodes=dos
1175 is the same as specifying:
1176 -o show_inodes=all
1177 Note that the "posix" and "all" options will show all directory
1178 names, BUT the link count on each directory inode entry is set to 1,
1179 due to Linux not supporting directory hard links. This may well
1180 confuse some userspace applications, since the directory names will
1181 have the same inode numbers. Thus it is NOT advisable to use the
1182 "posix" or "all" options. We provide them only for completeness sake.
1183 - Add copies of allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size to
1184 the ntfs inode structure and set them up in
1185 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). These reflect the unnamed data attribute
1186 for files and the index allocation attribute for directories.
1187 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs inode for
1188 $BITMAP attribute of large directories and set them up in
1189 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1190 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs volume for
1191 $BITMAP attribute of $MFT and set them up in
1192 super.c::load_system_files().
1193 - Parse deprecated ntfs driver options (iocharset, show_sys_files,
1194 posix, and utf8) and tell user what the new options to use are. Note
1195 we still do support them but they will be removed with kernel 2.7.x.
1196 - Change all occurences of integer long long printf formatting to hex
1197 as printk() will not support long long integer format if/when the
1198 div64 patch goes into the kernel.
1199 - Make slab caches have stable names and change the names to what they
1200 were intended to be. These changes are required/made possible by the
1201 new slab cache name handling which removes the length limitation by
1202 requiring the caller of kmem_cache_create() to supply a stable name
1203 which is then referenced but not copied.
1204 - Rename run_list structure to run_list_element and create a new
1205 run_list structure containing a pointer to a run_list_element
1206 structure and a read/write semaphore. Adapt all users of runlists
1207 to new scheme and take and release the lock as needed. This fixes a
1208 nasty race as the run_list changes even when inodes are locked for
1209 reading and even when the inode isn't locked at all, so we really
1210 needed the serialization. We use a semaphore rather than a spinlock
1211 as memory allocations can sleep and doing everything GFP_ATOMIC
1212 would be silly.
1213 - Cleanup read_inode() removing all code checking for lowest_vcn != 0.
1214 This can never happen due to the nature of lookup_attr() and how we
1215 support attribute lists. If it did happen it would imply the inode
1216 being corrupt.
1217 - Check for lowest_vcn != 0 in ntfs_read_inode() and mark the inode as
1218 bad if found.
1219 - Update to 2.5.6-pre2 changes in struct address_space.
1220 - Use parent_ino() when accessing d_parent inode number in dir.c.
1221 - Import Sourceforge CVS repository into BitKeeper repository:
1222 http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-tng-2.5
1223 - Update fs/Makefile, fs/Config.help, fs/Config.in, and
1224 Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for NTFS TNG.
1225 - Create kernel configuration option controlling whether debugging
1226 is enabled or not.
1227 - Add the required export of end_buffer_io_sync() from the patches
1228 directory to the kernel code.
1229 - Update inode.c::ntfs_show_options() with show_inodes mount option.
1230 - Update errors mount option.
1231
1232tng-0.0.7 - 13/02/2002 - The driver is now feature complete for read-only!
1233
1234 - Cleanup mft.c and it's debug/error output in particular. Fix a minor
1235 bug in mapping of extent inodes. Update all the comments to fit all
1236 the recent code changes.
1237 - Modify vcn_to_lcn() to cope with entirely unmapped runlists.
1238 - Cleanups in compress.c, mostly comments and folding help.
1239 - Implement attrib.c::map_run_list() as a generic helper.
1240 - Make compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() use map_run_list()
1241 thus making code shorter and enabling attribute list support.
1242 - Cleanup incorrect use of [su]64 with %L printf format specifier in
1243 all source files. Type casts to [unsigned] long long added to correct
1244 the mismatches (important for architectures which have long long not
1245 being 64 bits).
1246 - Merge async io completion handlers for directory indexes and $MFT
1247 data into one by setting the index_block_size{_bits} of the ntfs
1248 inode for $MFT to the mft_record_size{_bits} of the ntfs_volume.
1249 - Cleanup aops.c, update comments.
1250 - Make ntfs_file_get_block() use map_run_list() so all files now
1251 support attribute lists.
1252 - Make ntfs_dir_readpage() almost verbatim copy of
1253 block_read_full_page() by using ntfs_file_get_block() with only real
1254 difference being the use of our own async io completion handler
1255 rather than the default one, thus reducing the amount of code and
1256 automatically enabling attribute list support for directory indices.
1257 - Fix bug in load_attribute_list() - forgot to call brelse in error
1258 code path.
1259 - Change parameters to find_attr() and lookup_attr(). We no longer
1260 pass in the upcase table and its length. These can be gotten from
1261 ctx->ntfs_ino->vol->upcase{_len}. Update all callers.
1262 - Cleanups in attrib.c.
1263 - Implement merging of runlists, attrib.c::merge_run_lists() and its
1264 helpers. (Richard Russon)
1265 - Attribute lists part 2, attribute extents and multi part runlists:
1266 enable proper support for LCN_RL_NOT_MAPPED and automatic mapping of
1267 further runlist parts via attrib.c::map_run_list().
1268 - Tiny endianness bug fix in decompress_mapping_pairs().
1269
1270tng-0.0.6 - Encrypted directories, bug fixes, cleanups, debugging enhancements.
1271
1272 - Enable encrypted directories. (Their index root is marked encrypted
1273 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1274 encrypted.)
1275 - Fix bug in NInoBmpNonResident() macro. (Cut and paste error.)
1276 - Enable $Extend system directory. Most (if not all) extended system
1277 files do not have unnamed data attributes so ntfs_read_inode() had to
1278 special case them but that is ok, as the special casing recovery
1279 happens inside an error code path so there is zero slow down in the
1280 normal fast path. The special casing is done by introducing a new
1281 function inode.c::ntfs_is_extended_system_file() which checks if any
1282 of the hard links in the inode point to $Extend as being their parent
1283 directory and if they do we assume this is an extended system file.
1284 - Create a sysctl/proc interface to allow {dis,en}abling of debug output
1285 when compiled with -DDEBUG. Default is debug messages to be disabled.
1286 To enable them, one writes a non-zero value to /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
1287 (if /proc is enabled) or uses sysctl(2) to effect the same (if sysctl
1288 interface is enabled). Inspired by old ntfs driver.
1289 - Add debug_msgs insmod/kernel boot parameter to set whether debug
1290 messages are {dis,en}abled. This is useful to enable debug messages
1291 during ntfs initialization and is the only way to activate debugging
1292 when the sysctl interface is not enabled.
1293 - Cleanup debug output in various places.
1294 - Remove all dollar signs ($) from the source (except comments) to
1295 enable compilation on architectures whose gcc compiler does not
1296 support dollar signs in the names of variables/constants. Attribute
1297 types now start with AT_ instead of $ and $I30 is now just I30.
1298 - Cleanup ntfs_lookup() and add consistency check of sequence numbers.
1299 - Load complete runlist for $MFT/$BITMAP during mount and cleanup
1300 access functions. This means we now cope with $MFT/$BITMAP being
1301 spread accross several mft records.
1302 - Disable modification of mft_zone_multiplier on remount. We can always
1303 reenable this later on if we really want to, but we will need to make
1304 sure we readjust the mft_zone size / layout accordingly.
1305
1306tng-0.0.5 - Modernize for 2.5.x and further in line-ing with Al Viro's comments.
1307
1308 - Use sb_set_blocksize() instead of set_blocksize() and verify the
1309 return value.
1310 - Use sb_bread() instead of bread() throughout.
1311 - Add index_vcn_size{_bits} to ntfs_inode structure to store the size
1312 of a directory index block vcn. Apply resulting simplifications in
1313 dir.c everywhere.
1314 - Fix a small bug somewhere (but forgot what it was).
1315 - Change ntfs_{debug,error,warning} to enable gcc to do type checking
1316 on the printf-format parameter list and fix bugs reported by gcc
1317 as a result. (Richard Russon)
1318 - Move inode allocation strategy to Al's new stuff but maintain the
1319 divorce of ntfs_inode from struct inode. To achieve this we have two
1320 separate slab caches, one for big ntfs inodes containing a struct
1321 inode and pure ntfs inodes and at the same time fix some faulty
1322 error code paths in ntfs_read_inode().
1323 - Show mount options in proc (inode.c::ntfs_show_options()).
1324
1325tng-0.0.4 - Big changes, getting in line with Al Viro's comments.
1326
1327 - Modified (un)map_mft_record functions to be common for read and write
1328 case. To specify which is which, added extra parameter at front of
1329 parameter list. Pass either READ or WRITE to this, each has the
1330 obvious meaning.
1331 - General cleanups to allow for easier folding in vi.
1332 - attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() now accepts the old runlist
1333 argument, and invokes attrib.c::merge_run_lists() to merge the old
1334 and the new runlists.
1335 - Removed attrib.c::find_first_attr().
1336 - Implemented loading of attribute list and complete runlist for $MFT.
1337 This means we now cope with $MFT being spread across several mft
1338 records.
1339 - Adapt to 2.5.2-pre9 and the changed create_empty_buffers() syntax.
1340 - Adapt major/minor/kdev_t/[bk]devname stuff to new 2.5.x kernels.
1341 - Make ntfs_volume be allocated via kmalloc() instead of using a slab
1342 cache. There are too little ntfs_volume structures at any one time
1343 to justify a private slab cache.
1344 - Fix bogus kmap() use in async io completion. Now use kmap_atomic().
1345 Use KM_BIO_IRQ on advice from IRC/kernel...
1346 - Use ntfs_map_page() in map_mft_record() and create ->readpage method
1347 for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated
1348 address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also
1349 removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch.
1350 - Fix a bug where kfree() was used insted of ntfs_free().
1351 - Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of
1352 vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers.
1353 - Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode.
1354 - Add mft record number and sequence number to ntfs_inode. Stop using
1355 i_ino and i_generation for in-driver purposes.
1356 - Implement attrib.c::merge_run_lists(). (Richard Russon)
1357 - Remove use of proper inodes by extent inodes. Move i_ino and
1358 i_generation to ntfs_inode to do this. Apply simplifications that
1359 result and remove iget_no_wait(), etc.
1360 - Pass ntfs_inode everywhere in the driver (used to be struct inode).
1361 - Add reference counting in ntfs_inode for the ntfs inode itself and
1362 for the mapped mft record.
1363 - Extend mft record mapping so we can (un)map extent mft records (new
1364 functions (un)map_extent_mft_record), and so mappings are reference
1365 counted and don't have to happen twice if already mapped - just ref
1366 count increases.
1367 - Add -o iocharset as alias to -o nls for backwards compatibility.
1368 - The latest core patch is now tiny. In fact just a single additional
1369 export is necessary over the base kernel.
1370
1371tng-0.0.3 - Cleanups, enhancements, bug fixes.
1372
1373 - Work on attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() to detect base extents
1374 and setup the runlist appropriately using knowledge provided by the
1375 sizes in the base attribute record.
1376 - Balance the get_/put_attr_search_ctx() calls so we don't leak memory
1377 any more.
1378 - Introduce ntfs_malloc_nofs() and ntfs_free() to allocate/free a single
1379 page or use vmalloc depending on the amount of memory requested.
1380 - Cleanup error output. The __FUNCTION__ "(): " is now added
1381 automatically. Introduced a new header file debug.h to support this
1382 and also moved ntfs_debug() function into it.
1383 - Make reading of compressed files more intelligent and especially get
1384 rid of the vmalloc_nofs() from readpage(). This now uses per CPU
1385 buffers (allocated at first mount with cluster size <= 4kiB and
1386 deallocated on last umount with cluster size <= 4kiB), and
1387 asynchronous io for the compressed data using a list of buffer heads.
1388 Er, we use synchronous io as async io only works on whole pages
1389 covered by buffers and not on individual buffer heads...
1390 - Bug fix for reading compressed files with sparse compression blocks.
1391
1392tng-0.0.2 - Now handles larger/fragmented/compressed volumes/files/dirs.
1393
1394 - Fixed handling of directories when cluster size exceeds index block
1395 size.
1396 - Hide DOS only name space directory entries from readdir() but allow
1397 them in lookup(). This should fix the problem that Linux doesn't
1398 support directory hard links, while still allowing access to entries
1399 via their short file name. This also has the benefit of mimicking
1400 what Windows users are used to, so it is the ideal solution.
1401 - Implemented sync_page everywhere so no more hangs in D state when
1402 waiting for a page.
1403 - Stop using bforget() in favour of brelse().
1404 - Stop locking buffers unnecessarily.
1405 - Implemented compressed files (inode->mapping contains uncompressed
1406 data, raw compressed data is currently bread() into a vmalloc()ed
1407 memory buffer).
1408 - Enable compressed directories. (Their index root is marked compressed
1409 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1410 compressed.)
1411 - Use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in the ntfs_error and ntfs_warning
1412 functions. (Thanks to Will Dyson for pointing this out.)
1413 - Moved the ntfs_inode and ntfs_volume (the former ntfs_inode_info and
1414 ntfs_sb_info) out of the common inode and super_block structures and
1415 started using the generic_ip and generic_sbp pointers instead. This
1416 makes ntfs entirely private with respect to the kernel tree.
1417 - Detect compiler version and abort with error message if gcc less than
1418 2.96 is used.
1419 - Fix bug in name comparison function in unistr.c.
1420 - Implement attribute lists part 1, the infrastructure: search contexts
1421 and operations, find_external_attr(), lookup_attr()) and make the
1422 code use the infrastructure.
1423 - Fix stupid buffer overflow bug that became apparent on larger run
1424 list containing attributes.
1425 - Fix bugs in readdir() that became apparent on larger directories.
1426
1427 The driver is now really useful and survives the test
1428 find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
1429 without any error messages on a over 1GiB sized partition with >16k
1430 files on it, including compressed files and directories and many files
1431 and directories with attribute lists.
1432
1433tng-0.0.1 - The first useful version.
1434
1435 - Added ntfs_lookup().
1436 - Added default upcase generation and handling.
1437 - Added compile options to be shown on module init.
1438 - Many bug fixes that were "hidden" before.
1439 - Update to latest kernel.
1440 - Added ntfs_readdir().
1441 - Added file operations for mmap(), read(), open() and llseek(). We just
1442 use the generic ones. The whole point of going through implementing
1443 readpage() methods and where possible get_block() call backs is that
1444 this allows us to make use of the generic high level methods provided
1445 by the kernel.
1446
1447 The driver is now actually useful! Yey. (-: It undoubtedly has got bugs
1448 though and it doesn't implement accesssing compressed files yet. Also,
1449 accessing files with attribute list attributes is not implemented yet
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001450 either. But for small or simple filesystems it should work and allow
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001451 you to list directories, use stat on directory entries and the file
1452 system, open, read, mmap and llseek around in files. A big mile stone
1453 has been reached!
1454
1455tng-0.0.0 - Initial version tag.
1456
1457 Initial driver implementation. The driver can mount and umount simple
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001458 NTFS filesystems (i.e. ones without attribute lists in the system
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001459 files). If the mount fails there might be problems in the error handling
1460 code paths, so be warned. Otherwise it seems to be loading the system
1461 files nicely and the mft record read mapping/unmapping seems to be
1462 working nicely, too. Proof of inode metadata in the page cache and non-
1463 resident file unnamed stream data in the page cache concepts is thus
1464 complete.