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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.
Randy Dunlap89075472005-03-03 11:19:53 +000032 - Fix compilation warnings on ia64. (Randy Dunlap)
Anton Altaparmakovda284382004-11-11 11:18:10 +000033 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_set().
Anton Altaparmakov66129f82004-11-11 12:34:00 +000034 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_{check,empty}_logfile().
Anton Altaparmakovdb30d162004-11-11 12:42:00 +000035 - Use i_size_read() once and then use the cached value in
36 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_alloc().
Anton Altaparmakovd4b9ba72004-11-17 15:45:08 +000037 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open().
Anton Altaparmakov36763672004-11-18 13:46:45 +000038 - Add size_lock to the ntfs_inode structure. This is an rw spinlock
39 and it locks against access to the inode sizes. Note, ->size_lock
40 is also accessed from irq context so you must use the _irqsave and
41 _irqrestore lock and unlock functions, respectively.
42 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/compress.c at the start of the read and
43 use the cached value afterwards. Cache the initialized_size in the
44 same way and protect access to the two sizes using the size_lock.
Anton Altaparmakov206f9f32004-11-18 15:01:06 +000045 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/dir.c once and then use the cached
46 value afterwards.
Anton Altaparmakov218357f2004-11-18 20:34:59 +000047 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/super.c once and then use the cached
48 value afterwards. Cache the initialized_size in the same way and
49 protect access to the two sizes using the size_lock.
50 - Minor optimization to fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() and its helpers.
Anton Altaparmakovf50f3ac2004-11-19 22:16:00 +000051 - Use i_size_read() in fs/ntfs/inode.c once and then use the cached
52 value afterwards when reading the size of the bitmap inode.
Anton Altaparmakov07a4e2d2005-01-12 13:08:26 +000053 - Use i_size_{read,write}() in fs/ntfs/{aops.c,mft.c} and protect
54 access to the i_size and other size fields using the size_lock.
Anton Altaparmakov946929d2005-01-13 15:26:29 +000055 - Implement extension of resident files in the regular file write code
56 paths (fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{prepare,commit}_write()). At present
57 this only works until the data attribute becomes too big for the mft
58 record after which we abort the write returning -EOPNOTSUPP from
59 ntfs_prepare_write().
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +000060 - Add disable_sparse mount option together with a per volume sparse
61 enable bit which is set appropriately and a per inode sparse disable
62 bit which is preset on some system file inodes as appropriate.
63 - Enforce that sparse support is disabled on NTFS volumes pre 3.0.
Anton Altaparmakov1a0df152005-02-03 12:04:36 +000064 - Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() in
65 the creation of the unmapped runlist element for the base attribute
66 extent.
Anton Altaparmakovb6ad6c52005-02-15 10:08:43 +000067 - Split ntfs_map_runlist() into ntfs_map_runlist() and a non-locking
68 helper ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() which is used by ntfs_map_runlist().
69 This allows us to map runlist fragments with the runlist lock already
70 held without having to drop and reacquire it around the call. Adapt
71 all callers.
72 - Change ntfs_find_vcn() to ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() which takes a locked
73 runlist. This allows us to find runlist elements with the runlist
74 lock already held without having to drop and reacquire it around the
75 call. Adapt all callers.
Anton Altaparmakov37e4c132005-02-18 10:03:13 +000076 - Change time to u64 in time.h::ntfs2utc() as it otherwise generates a
Anton Altaparmakovd8ec7852005-02-18 09:23:39 +000077 warning in the do_div() call on sparc32. Thanks to Meelis Roos for
78 the report and analysis of the warning.
Anton Altaparmakov37e4c132005-02-18 10:03:13 +000079 - Fix a nasty runlist merge bug when merging two holes.
Anton Altaparmakov5ae9fcf2005-03-02 17:03:24 +000080 - Set the ntfs_inode->allocated_size to the real allocated size in the
81 mft record for resident attributes (fs/ntfs/inode.c).
82 - Small readability cleanup to use "a" instead of "ctx->attr"
83 everywhere (fs/ntfs/inode.c).
Anton Altaparmakov41382682005-03-03 13:44:15 +000084 - Make fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_{parent,dentry} static and move the
85 definition of ntfs_export_ops from fs/ntfs/super.c to namei.c. Also,
86 declare ntfs_export_ops in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h.
Anton Altaparmakov9451f852005-03-03 14:43:43 +000087 - Correct sparse file handling. The compressed values need to be
88 checked and set in the ntfs inode as done for compressed files and
89 the compressed size needs to be used for vfs inode->i_blocks instead
90 of the allocated size, again, as done for compressed files.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070091
922.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
93
94 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate().
95 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to return an error code
96 instead of void and provide a helper ntfs_truncate_vfs() for the
97 vfs ->truncate method.
98 - Add a new ntfs inode flag NInoTruncateFailed() and modify
99 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to set and clear it appropriately.
100 - Fix min_size and max_size definitions in ATTR_DEF structure in
101 fs/ntfs/layout.h to be signed.
102 - Add attribute definition handling helpers to fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]:
103 ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check(), ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident(), and
104 ntfs_attr_can_be_resident(), which in turn use the new private helper
105 ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef().
106 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty(), take the
107 mapping->private_lock around the dirtying of the buffer heads
108 analagous to the way it is done in __set_page_dirty_buffers().
109 - Ensure the mft record size does not exceed the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at
110 mount time as this cannot work with the current implementation.
111 - Check for location of attribute name and improve error handling in
112 general in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() and friends.
113 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage(), if the page is fully outside
114 i_size, i.e. race with truncate, invalidate the buffers on the page
115 so that they become freeable and hence the page does not leak.
116 - Remove unused function fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_merge(). (Adrian
117 Bunk)
118 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_find() that resulted in
119 a NULL pointer dereference in the error code path when a corrupt
120 attribute was found. (Thanks to Domen Puncer for the bug report.)
121 - Add MODULE_VERSION() to fs/ntfs/super.c.
122 - Make several functions and variables static. (Adrian Bunk)
123 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() so it allocates
124 buffers for the page if they are not present and then marks the
125 buffers belonging to the ntfs record dirty. This causes the buffers
126 to become busy and hence they are safe from removal until the page
127 has been written out.
128 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find() in the
129 error handling code path that resulted in a BUG() due to trying to
130 unmap an extent mft record when the mapping of it had failed and it
131 thus was not mapped. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for the bug report.)
132 - Drop the runlist lock after the vcn has been read in
133 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::__ntfs_cluster_free().
134 - Rewrite handling of multi sector transfer errors. We now do not set
135 PageError() when such errors are detected in the async i/o handler
136 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(). All users of mst
137 protected attributes now check the magic of each ntfs record as they
138 use it and act appropriately. This has the effect of making errors
139 granular per ntfs record rather than per page which solves the case
140 where we cannot access any of the ntfs records in a page when a
141 single one of them had an mst error. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for
142 the bug report.)
143 - Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date()
144 where we failed to release i_sem on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode.
145 - Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
146 - Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e.
147 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(),
148 and write_mft_record_nolock(). From now on we require that the
149 complete runlist for the mft mirror is always mapped into memory.
150 - Add creation of buffers to fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
151 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block().
152 - Cleanup fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page() since we know that a
153 resident attribute will be smaller than a page which makes the code
154 simpler. Also make the code more tolerant to concurrent ->truncate.
155
1562.1.21 - Fix some races and bugs, rewrite mft write code, add mft allocator.
157
158 - Implement extent mft record deallocation
159 fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_extent_mft_record_free().
160 - Splitt runlist related functions off from attrib.[hc] to runlist.[hc].
161 - Add vol->mft_data_pos and initialize it at mount time.
162 - Rename init_runlist() to ntfs_init_runlist(), ntfs_vcn_to_lcn() to
163 ntfs_rl_vcn_to_lcn(), decompress_mapping_pairs() to
164 ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(), ntfs_merge_runlists() to
165 ntfs_runlists_merge() and adapt all callers.
166 - Add fs/ntfs/runlist.[hc]::ntfs_get_nr_significant_bytes(),
167 ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs(), ntfs_write_significant_bytes(),
168 and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build(), adapted from libntfs.
169 - Make fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() not
170 static and add a declaration for it to lcnalloc.h.
171 - Add fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.h::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl() which is a static
172 inline wrapper for ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() which takes the
173 cluster bitmap lock for the duration of the call.
174 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_record_resize().
175 - Implement the equivalent of memset() for an ntfs attribute in
176 fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_set() and switch
177 fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_empty_logfile() to using it.
178 - Remove unnecessary casts from LCN_* constants.
179 - Implement fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock().
180 - Add MFT_RECORD_OLD as a copy of MFT_RECORD in fs/ntfs/layout.h and
181 change MFT_RECORD to contain the NTFS 3.1+ specific fields.
182 - Add a helper function fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which
183 marks all buffers belonging to an ntfs record dirty, followed by
184 marking the page the ntfs record is in dirty and also marking the vfs
185 inode containing the ntfs record dirty (I_DIRTY_PAGES).
186 - Switch fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to using the
187 new helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and remove the no
188 longer needed fs/ntfs/index.[hc]::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty().
189 - Move ntfs_{un,}map_page() from ntfs.h to aops.h and fix resulting
190 include errors.
191 - Move the typedefs for runlist_element and runlist from types.h to
192 runlist.h and fix resulting include errors.
193 - Remove unused {__,}format_mft_record() from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
194 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::__mark_mft_record_dirty() to use the helper
195 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which also changes the behaviour in that we
196 now set the buffers belonging to the mft record dirty as well as the
197 page itself.
198 - Update fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and sync_mft_mirror()
199 to cope with the fact that there now are dirty buffers in mft pages.
200 - Update fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode() to also use the helper
201 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and thus to set the buffers belonging to the
202 mft record dirty as well as the page itself.
203 - Fix compiler warnings on x86-64 in fs/ntfs/dir.c. (Randy Dunlap,
204 slightly modified by me)
205 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record() which fails with -EALREADY if
206 the mft record is already locked and otherwise behaves the same way
207 as fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_mft_record().
208 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() so that it only
209 writes the mft record if the buffers belonging to it are dirty.
210 Otherwise we assume that it was written out by other means already.
211 - Attempting to write outside initialized size is _not_ a bug so remove
212 the bug check from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(). It is in
213 fact required to write outside initialized size when preparing to
214 extend the initialized size.
215 - Map the page instead of using page_address() before writing to it in
216 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mft_writepage().
217 - Provide exclusion between opening an inode / mapping an mft record
218 and accessing the mft record in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage()
219 by setting the page not uptodate throughout ntfs_mft_writepage().
220 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block()
221 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
222 - Add the helper fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_may_write_mft_record() which
223 checks if an mft record may be written out safely obtaining any
224 necessary locks in the process. This is used by
225 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block().
226 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to also work for
227 writing mft records and improve its error handling in the process.
228 Now if any of the records in the page fail to be written out, all
229 other records will be written out instead of aborting completely.
230 - Remove ntfs_mft_aops and update all users to use ntfs_mst_aops.
231 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to set the
232 ntfs_mst_aops for all inodes which are NInoMstProtected() and
233 ntfs_aops for all other inodes.
234 - Rename fs/ntfs/mft.c::sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() to
235 ntfs_sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() and change their parameters so they
236 no longer require an ntfs inode to be present. Update all callers.
237 - Cleanup the error handling in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
238 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror()
239 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
240 - Remove the no longer needed fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() and
241 fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record().
242 - Fix callers of fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to call it
243 with the ntfs inode which contains the page rather than the ntfs
244 inode the mft record of which is in the page.
245 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by moving the
246 index inode bitmap inode release code from there to
247 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_clear_big_inode(). (Thanks to Christoph
248 Hellwig for spotting this.)
249 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by taking the
250 inode semaphore around the code that sets ni->itype.index.bmp_ino to
251 NULL and reorganize the code to optimize it a bit. (Thanks to
252 Christoph Hellwig for spotting this.)
253 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to no longer take the
254 ntfs inode as a parameter as this is confusing and misleading and the
255 needed ntfs inode is available via NTFS_I(page->mapping->host).
256 Adapt all callers to this change.
257 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and
258 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to only check the dirty state
259 of the first buffer in a record and to take this as the ntfs record
260 dirty state. We cannot look at the dirty state for subsequent
261 buffers because we might be racing with
262 fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty().
263 - Move the static inline ntfs_init_big_inode() from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
264 inode.h and make fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_init_inode() non-static and
265 add a declaration for it to inode.h. Fix some compilation issues
266 that resulted due to #includes and header file interdependencies.
267 - Simplify setup of i_mode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode().
268 - Add helpers fs/ntfs/layout.h::MK_MREF() and MK_LE_MREF().
269 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() to only verify the mft
270 record sequence number if it is specified (i.e. not zero).
271 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_alloc() and various helper
272 functions used by it.
273 - Update Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt with instructions on how to
274 use the Device-Mapper driver with NTFS ftdisk/LDM raid. This removes
275 the linear raid problem with the Software RAID / MD driver when one
276 or more of the devices has an odd number of sectors.
277
2782.1.20 - Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release.
279
280 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx()
281 where we did not clear ctx->al_entry but it was still set due to
282 changes in ntfs_attr_lookup() and ntfs_external_attr_find() in
283 particular.
284 - Fix another stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find()
285 where we forgot to unmap the extent mft record when we had finished
286 enumerating an attribute which caused a bug check to trigger when the
287 VFS calls ->clear_inode.
288
2892.1.19 - Many cleanups, improvements, and a minor bug fix.
290
291 - Update ->setattr (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) to refuse to
292 change the uid, gid, and mode of an inode as we do not support NTFS
293 ACLs yet.
294 - Remove BKL use from ntfs_setattr() syncing up with the rest of the
295 kernel.
296 - Get rid of the ugly transparent union in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir()
297 and ntfs_filldir() as per suggestion from Al Viro.
298 - Change '\0' and L'\0' to simply 0 as per advice from Linus Torvalds.
299 - Update ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) to check if the
300 inode size has changed and to only output an error if so.
301 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.h::attribute_value_length() to ntfs_attr_size().
302 - Add le{16,32,64} as well as sle{16,32,64} data types to
303 fs/ntfs/types.h.
304 - Change ntfschar to be le16 instead of u16 in fs/ntfs/types.h.
305 - Add le versions of VCN, LCN, and LSN called leVCN, leLCN, and leLSN,
306 respectively, to fs/ntfs/types.h.
307 - Update endianness conversion macros in fs/ntfs/endian.h to use the
308 new types as appropriate.
309 - Do proper type casting when using sle64_to_cpup() in fs/ntfs/dir.c
310 and index.c.
311 - Add leMFT_REF data type to fs/ntfs/layout.h.
312 - Update all NTFS header files with the new little endian data types.
313 Affected files are fs/ntfs/layout.h, logfile.h, and time.h.
314 - Do proper type casting when using ntfs_is_*_recordp() in
315 fs/ntfs/logfile.c, mft.c, and super.c.
316 - Fix all the sparse bitwise warnings. Had to change all the typedef
317 enums storing little endian values to simple enums plus a typedef for
318 the datatype to make sparse happy.
319 - Fix a bug found by the new sparse bitwise warnings where the default
320 upcase table was defined as a pointer to wchar_t rather than ntfschar
321 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h and super.c.
322 - Change {const_,}cpu_to_le{16,32}(0) to just 0 as suggested by Al Viro.
323
3242.1.18 - Fix scheduling latencies at mount time as well as an endianness bug.
325
326 - Remove vol->nr_mft_records as it was pretty meaningless and optimize
327 the calculation of total/free inodes as used by statfs().
328 - Fix scheduling latencies in ntfs_fill_super() by dropping the BKL
329 because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock semaphore which
330 provides safe locking. (Ingo Molnar)
331 - Fix a potential bug in fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() that
332 could occur in the future for when we start closing/freeing extent
333 inodes if we don't set base_ni->ext.extent_ntfs_inos to NULL after
334 we free it.
335 - Rename {find,lookup}_attr() to ntfs_attr_{find,lookup}() as well as
336 find_external_attr() to ntfs_external_attr_find() to cleanup the
337 namespace a bit and to be more consistent with libntfs.
338 - Rename {{re,}init,get,put}_attr_search_ctx() to
339 ntfs_attr_{{re,}init,get,put}_search_ctx() as well as the type
340 attr_search_context to ntfs_attr_search_ctx.
341 - Force use of ntfs_attr_find() in ntfs_attr_lookup() when searching
342 for the attribute list attribute itself.
343 - Fix endianness bug in ntfs_external_attr_find().
344 - Change ntfs_{external_,}attr_find() to return 0 on success, -ENOENT
345 if the attribute is not found, and -EIO on real error. In the case
346 of -ENOENT, the search context is updated to describe the attribute
347 before which the attribute being searched for would need to be
348 inserted if such an action were to be desired and in the case of
349 ntfs_external_attr_find() the search context is also updated to
350 indicate the attribute list entry before which the attribute list
351 entry of the attribute being searched for would need to be inserted
352 if such an action were to be desired. Also make ntfs_find_attr()
353 static and remove its prototype from attrib.h as it is not used
354 anywhere other than attrib.c. Update ntfs_attr_lookup() and all
355 callers of ntfs_{external,}attr_{find,lookup}() for the new return
356 values.
357 - Minor cleanup of fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_init_locked_inode().
358
3592.1.17 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths and other updates.
360
361 - Implement bitmap modification code (fs/ntfs/bitmap.[hc]). This
362 includes functions to set/clear a single bit or a run of bits.
363 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_find_vcn() which returns the locked
364 runlist element containing a particular vcn. It also takes care of
365 mapping any needed runlist fragments.
366 - Implement cluster (de-)allocation code (fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.[hc]).
367 - Load attribute definition table from $AttrDef at mount time.
368 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths involving (de)allocation of
369 the default and volume upcase tables.
370 - Remove ntfs_nr_mounts as it is no longer used.
371
3722.1.16 - Implement access time updates, file sync, async io, and read/writev.
373
374 - Add support for readv/writev and aio_read/aio_write (fs/ntfs/file.c).
375 This is done by setting the appropriate file operations pointers to
376 the generic helper functions provided by mm/filemap.c.
377 - Implement fsync, fdatasync, and msync both for files (fs/ntfs/file.c)
378 and directories (fs/ntfs/dir.c).
379 - Add support for {a,m,c}time updates to inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().
380 Note, except for the root directory and any other system files opened
381 by the user, the system files will not have their access times
382 updated as they are only accessed at the inode level an hence the
383 file level functions which cause the times to be updated are never
384 invoked.
385
3862.1.15 - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
387
388 - Add new element itype.index.collation_rule to the ntfs inode
389 structure and set it appropriately in ntfs_read_locked_inode().
390 - Implement a new inode type "index" to allow efficient access to the
391 indices found in various system files and adapt inode handling
392 accordingly (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]). An index inode is essentially an
393 attribute inode (NInoAttr() is true) with an attribute type of
394 AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION. As such, it is no longer allowed to call
395 ntfs_attr_iget() with an attribute type of AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION as
396 there would be no way to distinguish between normal attribute inodes
397 and index inodes. The function to obtain an index inode is
398 ntfs_index_iget() and it uses the helper function
399 ntfs_read_locked_index_inode(). Note, we do not overload
400 ntfs_attr_iget() as indices consist of multiple attributes so using
401 ntfs_attr_iget() to obtain an index inode would be confusing.
402 - Ensure that there is no overflow when doing page->index <<
403 PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT by casting page->index to s64 in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
404 - Use atomic kmap instead of kmap() in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page()
405 and ntfs_read_block().
406 - Use case sensitive attribute lookups instead of case insensitive ones.
407 - Lock all page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes while
408 accessing them to ensure we never see corrupt data while the page is
409 under writeout.
410 - Add framework for generic ntfs collation (fs/ntfs/collation.[hc]).
411 We have ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported() to check if the collation
412 rule you want to use is supported and ntfs_collation() which actually
413 collates two data items. We currently only support COLLATION_BINARY
414 and COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG but support for other collation rules will
415 be added as the need arises.
416 - Add a new type, ntfs_index_context, to allow retrieval of an index
417 entry using the corresponding index key. To get an index context,
418 use ntfs_index_ctx_get() and to release it, use ntfs_index_ctx_put().
419 This also adds a new slab cache for the index contexts. To lookup a
420 key in an index inode, use ntfs_index_lookup(). After modifying an
421 index entry, call ntfs_index_entry_flush_dcache_page() followed by
422 ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to ensure the changes are written out
423 to disk. For details see fs/ntfs/index.[hc]. Note, at present, if
424 an index entry is in the index allocation attribute rather than the
425 index root attribute it will not be written out (you will get a
426 warning message about discarded changes instead).
427 - Load the quota file ($Quota) and check if quota tracking is enabled
428 and if so, mark the quotas out of date. This causes windows to
429 rescan the volume on boot and update all quota entries.
430 - Add a set_page_dirty address space operation for ntfs_m[fs]t_aops.
431 It is simply set to __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() to make sure that
432 running set_page_dirty() on a page containing mft/ntfs records will
433 not affect the dirty state of the page buffers.
434 - Add fs/ntfs/index.c::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() which sets all
435 buffers that are inside the ntfs record in the page dirty after which
436 it sets the page dirty. This allows ->writepage to only write the
437 dirty index records rather than having to write all the records in
438 the page. Modify fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to
439 use this rather than __set_page_dirty_nobuffers().
440 - Implement fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() which enables the
441 writing of page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes
442 like the index allocation attribute in directory indices and other
443 indices like $Quota/$Q, etc. This means that the quota is now marked
444 out of date on all volumes rather than only on ones where the quota
445 defaults entry is in the index root attribute of the $Quota/$Q index.
446
4472.1.14 - Fix an NFSd caused deadlock reported by several users.
448
449 - Modify fs/ntfs/ntfs_readdir() to copy the index root attribute value
450 to a buffer so that we can put the search context and unmap the mft
451 record before calling the filldir() callback. We need to do this
452 because of NFSd which calls ->lookup() from its filldir callback()
453 and this causes NTFS to deadlock as ntfs_lookup() maps the mft record
454 of the directory and since ntfs_readdir() has got it mapped already
455 ntfs_lookup() deadlocks.
456
4572.1.13 - Enable overwriting of resident files and housekeeping of system files.
458
459 - Implement writing of mft records (fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]), which includes
460 keeping the mft mirror in sync with the mft when mirrored mft records
461 are written. The functions are write_mft_record{,_nolock}(). The
462 implementation is quite rudimentary for now with lots of things not
463 implemented yet but I am not sure any of them can actually occur so
464 I will wait for people to hit each one and only then implement it.
465 - Commit open system inodes at umount time. This should make it
466 virtually impossible for sync_mft_mirror_umount() to ever be needed.
467 - Implement ->write_inode (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode()) for the
468 ntfs super operations. This gives us inode writing via the VFS inode
469 dirty code paths. Note: Access time updates are not implemented yet.
470 - Implement fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::{,__}mark_mft_record_dirty() and make
471 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and ntfs_commit_write() use it, thus
472 finally enabling resident file overwrite! (-8 This also includes a
473 placeholder for ->writepage (ntfs_mft_writepage()), which for now
474 just redirties the page and returns. Also, at umount time, we for
475 now throw away all mft data page cache pages after the last call to
476 ntfs_commit_inode() in the hope that all inodes will have been
477 written out by then and hence no dirty (meta)data will be lost. We
478 also check for this case and emit an error message telling the user
479 to run chkdsk.
480 - Use set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback() in the resident
481 attribute code path of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() otherwise
482 the radix-tree tag PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the
483 page is clean.
484 - Implement ntfs_mft_writepage() so it now checks if any of the mft
485 records in the page are dirty and if so redirties the page and
486 returns. Otherwise it just returns (after doing set_page_writeback(),
487 unlock_page(), end_page_writeback() or the radix-tree tag
488 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the page is clean), thus
489 alowing the VM to do with the page as it pleases. Also, at umount
490 time, now only throw away dirty mft (meta)data pages if dirty inodes
491 are present and ask the user to email us if they see this happening.
492 - Add functions ntfs_{clear,set}_volume_flags(), to modify the volume
493 information flags (fs/ntfs/super.c).
494 - Mark the volume dirty when (re)mounting read-write and mark it clean
495 when unmounting or remounting read-only. If any volume errors are
496 found, the volume is left marked dirty to force chkdsk to run.
497 - Add code to set the NT4 compatibility flag when (re)mounting
498 read-write for newer NTFS versions but leave it commented out for now
499 since we do not make any modifications that are NTFS 1.2 specific yet
500 and since setting this flag breaks Captive-NTFS which is not nice.
501 This code must be enabled once we start writing NTFS 1.2 specific
502 changes otherwise Windows NTFS driver might crash / cause corruption.
503
5042.1.12 - Fix the second fix to the decompression engine and some cleanups.
505
506 - Add a new address space operations struct, ntfs_mst_aops, for mst
507 protected attributes. This is because the default ntfs_aops do not
508 make sense with mst protected data and were they to write anything to
509 such an attribute they would cause data corruption so we provide
510 ntfs_mst_aops which does not have any write related operations set.
511 - Cleanup dirty ntfs inode handling (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]) which also
512 includes an adapted ntfs_commit_inode() and an implementation of
513 ntfs_write_inode() which for now just cleans dirty inodes without
514 writing them (it does emit a warning that this is happening).
515 - Undo the second decompression engine fix (see 2.1.9 release ChangeLog
516 entry) as it was only fixing a theoretical bug but at the same time
517 it badly broke the handling of sparse and uncompressed compression
518 blocks.
519
5202.1.11 - Driver internal cleanups.
521
522 - Only build logfile.o if building the driver with read-write support.
523 - Really final white space cleanups.
524 - Use generic_ffs() instead of ffs() in logfile.c which allows the
525 log_page_size variable to be optimized by gcc into a constant.
526 - Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere as uchar_t is unsigned 1-byte
527 char as defined by POSIX and as found on some systems.
528
5292.1.10 - Force read-only (re)mounting of volumes with unsupported volume flags.
530
531 - Finish off the white space cleanups (remove trailing spaces, etc).
532 - Clean up ntfs_fill_super() and ntfs_read_inode_mount() by removing
533 the kludges around the first iget(). Instead of (re)setting ->s_op
534 we have the $MFT inode set up by explicit new_inode() / set ->i_ino /
535 insert_inode_hash() / call ntfs_read_inode_mount() directly. This
536 kills the need for second super_operations and allows to return error
537 from ntfs_read_inode_mount() without resorting to ugly "poisoning"
538 tricks. (Al Viro)
539 - Force read-only (re)mounting if any of the following bits are set in
540 the volume information flags:
541 VOLUME_IS_DIRTY, VOLUME_RESIZE_LOG_FILE,
542 VOLUME_UPGRADE_ON_MOUNT, VOLUME_DELETE_USN_UNDERWAY,
543 VOLUME_REPAIR_OBJECT_ID, VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK
544 To make this easier we define VOLUME_MUST_MOUNT_RO_MASK with all the
545 above bits set so the test is made easy.
546
5472.1.9 - Fix two bugs in decompression engine.
548
549 - Fix a bug where we would not always detect that we have reached the
550 end of a compression block because we were ending at minus one byte
551 which is effectively the same as being at the end. The fix is to
552 check whether the uncompressed buffer has been fully filled and if so
553 we assume we have reached the end of the compression block. A big
554 thank you to Marcin Gibuła for the bug report, the assistance in
555 tracking down the bug and testing the fix.
556 - Fix a possible bug where when a compressed read is truncated to the
557 end of the file, the offset inside the last page was not truncated.
558
5592.1.8 - Handle $MFT mirror and $LogFile, improve time handling, and cleanups.
560
561 - Use get_bh() instead of manual atomic_inc() in fs/ntfs/compress.c.
562 - Modify fs/ntfs/time.c::ntfs2utc(), get_current_ntfs_time(), and
563 utc2ntfs() to work with struct timespec instead of time_t on the
564 Linux UTC time side thus preserving the full precision of the NTFS
565 time and only loosing up to 99 nano-seconds in the Linux UTC time.
566 - Move fs/ntfs/time.c to fs/ntfs/time.h and make the time functions
567 static inline.
568 - Remove unused ntfs_dirty_inode().
569 - Cleanup super operations declaration in fs/ntfs/super.c.
570 - Wrap flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in #ifdef NTFS_RW.
571 - Add NInoTestSetFoo() and NInoTestClearFoo() macro magic to
572 fs/ntfs/inode.h and use it to declare NInoTest{Set,Clear}Dirty.
573 - Move typedefs for ntfs_attr and test_t from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
574 fs/ntfs/inode.h so they can be used elsewhere.
575 - Determine the mft mirror size as the number of mirrored mft records
576 and store it in ntfs_volume->mftmirr_size (fs/ntfs/super.c).
577 - Load the mft mirror at mount time and compare the mft records stored
578 in it to the ones in the mft. Force a read-only mount if the two do
579 not match (fs/ntfs/super.c).
580 - Fix type casting related warnings on 64-bit architectures. Thanks
581 to Meelis Roos for reporting them.
582 - Move %L to %ll as %L is floating point and %ll is integer which is
583 what we want.
584 - Read the journal ($LogFile) and determine if the volume has been
585 shutdown cleanly and force a read-only mount if not (fs/ntfs/super.c
586 and fs/ntfs/logfile.c). This is a little bit of a crude check in
587 that we only look at the restart areas and not at the actual log
588 records so that there will be a very small number of cases where we
589 think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean. This should
590 only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly and did not
591 have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o.
592 - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a read-write (re)mount
593 is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it with 0xff bytes to
594 ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale
595 journal after Linux has written to the volume.
596
5972.1.7 - Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes.
598
599 - Set i_generation in the VFS inode from the seq_no of the NTFS inode.
600 - Make ntfs_lookup() NFS export safe, i.e. use d_splice_alias(), etc.
601 - Implement ->get_dentry() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_dentry() as the
602 default doesn't allow inode number 0 which is a valid inode on NTFS
603 and even if it did allow that it uses iget() instead of ntfs_iget()
604 which makes it useless for us.
605 - Implement ->get_parent() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_parent() as the
606 default just returns -EACCES which is not very useful.
607 - Define export operations (->s_export_op) for NTFS (ntfs_export_ops)
608 and set them up in the super block at mount time (super.c) this
609 allows mounted NTFS volumes to be exported via NFS.
610 - Add missing return -EOPNOTSUPP; in
611 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write().
612 - Enforce no atime and no dir atime updates at mount/remount time as
613 they are not implemented yet anyway.
614 - Move a few assignments in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::load_attribute_list() to
615 after a NULL check. Thanks to Dave Jones for pointing this out.
616
6172.1.6 - Fix minor bug in handling of compressed directories.
618
619 - Fix bug in handling of compressed directories. A compressed
620 directory is not really compressed so when we set the ->i_blocks
621 field of a compressed directory inode we were setting it from the
622 non-existing field ni->itype.compressed.size which gave random
623 results... For directories we now always use ni->allocated_size.
624
6252.1.5 - Fix minor bug in attribute list attribute handling.
626
627 - Fix bug in attribute list handling. Actually it is not as much a bug
628 as too much protection in that we were not allowing attribute lists
629 which waste space on disk while Windows XP clearly allows it and in
630 fact creates such attribute lists so our driver was failing.
631 - Update NTFS documentation ready for 2.6 kernel release.
632
6332.1.4 - Reduce compiler requirements.
634
635 - Remove all uses of unnamed structs and unions in the driver to make
636 old and newer gcc versions happy. Makes it a bit uglier IMO but at
637 least people will stop hassling me about it.
638
6392.1.3 - Important bug fixes in corner cases.
640
641 - super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Correct the check for 64-bit
642 clusters. (Philipp Thomas)
643 - attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a
644 multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs
645 Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>)
646
6472.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs.
648
649 - Fix buggy free cluster and free inode determination logic.
650
6512.1.1 - Minor updates.
652
653 - Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files.
654 - Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in
655 fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.ord>)
656 - Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc.
657 - Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write()
658 around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write. Adapt NTFS appropriately
659 in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() by using
660 kmap_atomic(KM_USER0).
661
6622.1.0 - First steps towards write support: implement file overwrite.
663
664 - Add configuration option for developmental write support with an
665 appropriately scary configuration help text.
666 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its
667 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block(). This enables mmap(2) based
668 overwriting of existing files on ntfs. Note: Resident files are
669 only written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so
670 avoid writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
671 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_write(), its
672 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() and their
673 counterparts, fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_write(), and
674 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write(), respectively. Also,
675 add generic_file_write() to the ntfs file operations (fs/ntfs/file.c).
676 This enables write(2) based overwriting of existing files on ntfs.
677 Note: As with mmap(2) based overwriting, resident files are only
678 written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so avoid
679 writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
680 - Implement ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) and
681 ->setattr() (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) inode operations for
682 files with the purpose of intercepting and aborting all i_size
683 changes which we do not support yet. ntfs_truncate() actually only
684 emits a warning message but AFAICS our interception of i_size changes
685 elsewhere means ntfs_truncate() never gets called for i_size changes.
686 It is only called from generic_file_write() when we fail in
687 ntfs_prepare_{,nonresident_}write() in order to discard any
688 instantiated buffers beyond i_size. Thus i_size is not actually
689 changed so our warning message is enough. Unfortunately it is not
690 possible to easily determine if i_size is being changed or not hence
691 we just emit an appropriately worded error message.
692
6932.0.25 - Small bug fixes and cleanups.
694
695 - Unlock the page in an out of memory error code path in
696 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
697 - If fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page() is called on an uptodate page,
698 just unlock the page and return. (This can happen due to ->writepage
699 clearing PageUptodate() during write out of MstProtected()
700 attributes.
701 - Remove leaked write code again.
702
7032.0.24 - Cleanups.
704
705 - Treat BUG_ON() as ASSERT() not VERIFY(), i.e. do not use side effects
706 inside BUG_ON(). (Adam J. Richter)
707 - Split logical OR expressions inside BUG_ON() into individual BUG_ON()
708 calls for improved debugging. (Adam J. Richter)
709 - Add errors flag to the ntfs volume state, accessed via
710 NVol{,Set,Clear}Errors(vol).
711 - Do not allow read-write remounts of read-only volumes with errors.
712 - Clarify comment for ntfs file operation sendfile which was added by
713 Christoph Hellwig a while ago (just using generic_file_sendfile())
714 to say that ntfs ->sendfile is only used for the case where the
715 source data is on the ntfs partition and the destination is
716 somewhere else, i.e. nothing we need to concern ourselves with.
717 - Add generic_file_write() as our ntfs file write operation.
718
7192.0.23 - Major bug fixes (races, deadlocks, non-i386 architectures).
720
721 - Massive internal locking changes to mft record locking. Fixes lock
722 recursion and replaces the mrec_lock read/write semaphore with a
723 mutex. Also removes the now superfluous mft_count. This fixes several
724 race conditions and deadlocks, especially in the future write code.
725 - Fix ntfs over loopback for compressed files by adding an
726 optimization barrier. (gcc was screwing up otherwise ?)
727 - Miscellaneous cleanups all over the code and a fix or two in error
728 handling code paths.
729 Thanks go to Christoph Hellwig for pointing out the following two:
730 - Remove now unused function fs/ntfs/malloc.h::vmalloc_nofs().
731 - Fix ntfs_free() for ia64 and parisc by checking for VMALLOC_END, too.
732
7332.0.22 - Cleanups, mainly to ntfs_readdir(), and use C99 initializers.
734
735 - Change fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_reddir() to only read/write ->f_pos once
736 at entry/exit respectively.
737 - Use C99 initializers for structures.
738 - Remove unused variable blocks from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
739
7402.0.21 - Check for, and refuse to work with too large files/directories/volumes.
741
742 - Limit volume size at mount time to 2TiB on architectures where
743 unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector()).
744 This is the most we can do without overflowing the 32-bit limit of
745 the block device size imposed on us by sb_bread() and sb_getblk()
746 for the time being.
747 - Limit file/directory size at open() time to 16TiB on architectures
748 where unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open() and
749 fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_dir_open()). This is the most we can do without
750 overflowing the page cache page index.
751
7522.0.20 - Support non-resident directory index bitmaps, fix page leak in readdir.
753
754 - Move the directory index bitmap to use an attribute inode instead of
755 having special fields for it inside the ntfs inode structure. This
756 means that the index bitmaps now use the page cache for i/o, too,
757 and also as a side effect we get support for non-resident index
758 bitmaps for free.
759 - Simplify/cleanup error handling in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() and
760 fix a page leak that manifested itself in some cases.
761 - Add fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(), which we need to release the
762 index bitmap inode on the final iput().
763
7642.0.19 - Fix race condition, improvements, and optimizations in i/o interface.
765
766 - Apply block optimization added to fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block()
767 to fs/ntfs/compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() as well.
768 - Drop the "file" from ntfs_file_read_compressed_block().
769 - Rename fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_enb_buffer_read_async() to
770 ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() (more like the fs/buffer.c counterpart).
771 - Update ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() with the improved logic from
772 its updated counterpart fs/buffer.c::end_buffer_async_read(). Apply
773 further logic improvements to better determine when we set PageError.
774 - Update submission of buffers in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
775 check for the buffers being uptodate first in line with the updated
776 fs/buffer.c::block_read_full_page(). This plugs a small race
777 condition.
778
7792.0.18 - Fix race condition in reading of compressed files.
780
781 - There was a narrow window between checking a buffer head for being
782 uptodate and locking it in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block(). We now
783 lock the buffer and then check whether it is uptodate or not.
784
7852.0.17 - Cleanups and optimizations - shrinking the ToDo list.
786
787 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to return an error
788 code and update callers, i.e. ntfs_iget(), to pass that error code
789 up instead of just using -EIO.
790 - Modifications to super.c to ensure that both mount and remount
791 cannot set any write related options when the driver is compiled
792 read-only.
793 - Optimize block resolution in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
794 cache the current runlist element. This should improve performance
795 when reading very large and/or very fragmented data.
796
7972.0.16 - Convert access to $MFT/$BITMAP to attribute inode API.
798
799 - Fix a stupid bug introduced in 2.0.15 where we were unmapping the
800 wrong inode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_attr_iget().
801 - Fix debugging check in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
802 - Convert $MFT/$BITMAP access to attribute inode API and remove all
803 remnants of the ugly mftbmp address space and operations hack. This
804 means we finally have only one readpage function as well as only one
805 async io completion handler. Yey! The mft bitmap is now just an
806 attribute inode and is accessed from vol->mftbmp_ino just as if it
807 were a normal file. Fake inodes rule. (-:
808
8092.0.15 - Fake inodes based attribute i/o via the pagecache, fixes and cleanups.
810
811 - Fix silly bug in fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_options() which was causing
812 remounts to fail when the partition had an entry in /etc/fstab and
813 the entry specified the nls= option.
814 - Apply same macro magic used in fs/ntfs/inode.h to fs/ntfs/volume.h to
815 expand all the helper functions NVolFoo(), NVolSetFoo(), and
816 NVolClearFoo().
817 - Move copyright statement from driver initialisation message to
818 module description (fs/super.c). This makes the initialisation
819 message fit on one line and fits in better with rest of kernel.
820 - Update fs/ntfs/attrib.c::map_run_list() to work on both real and
821 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
822 - Implement fake attribute inodes allowing all attribute i/o to go via
823 the page cache and to use all the normal vfs/mm functionality:
824 - Add ntfs_attr_iget() and its helper ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode()
825 to fs/ntfs/inode.c.
826 - Add needed cleanup code to ntfs_clear_big_inode().
827 - Merge address space operations for files and directories (aops.c),
828 now just have ntfs_aops:
829 - Rename:
830 end_buffer_read_attr_async() -> ntfs_end_buffer_read_async(),
831 ntfs_attr_read_block() -> ntfs_read_block(),
832 ntfs_file_read_page() -> ntfs_readpage().
833 - Rewrite fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_readpage() to work on both real and
834 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
835 - Remove obsolete fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage().
836
8372.0.14 - Run list merging code cleanup, minor locking changes, typo fixes.
838
839 - Change fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() to not rely on BKL by moving
840 the locking out of super.c::get_nr_free_mft_records() and taking and
841 dropping the mftbmp_lock rw_semaphore in ntfs_statfs() itself.
842 - Bring attribute runlist merging code (fs/ntfs/attrib.c) in sync with
843 current userspace ntfs library code. This means that if a merge
844 fails the original runlists are always left unmodified instead of
845 being silently corrupted.
846 - Misc typo fixes.
847
8482.0.13 - Use iget5_locked() in preparation for fake inodes and small cleanups.
849
850 - Remove nr_mft_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_mft_records
851 from ntfs_volume structure.
852 - Remove nr_lcn_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_clusters
853 from ntfs_volume structure.
854 - Use iget5_locked() and friends instead of conventional iget(). Wrap
855 the call in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_iget() and update callers of iget()
856 to use ntfs_iget(). Leave only one iget() call at mount time so we
857 don't need an ntfs_iget_mount().
858 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_new_extent_inode() to take mft_no as an
859 additional argument.
860
8612.0.12 - Initial cleanup of address space operations following 2.0.11 changes.
862
863 - Merge fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_mst_async() and
864 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_file_async() into one function
865 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_attr_async() using NInoMstProtected()
866 to determine whether to apply mst fixups or not.
867 - Above change allows merging fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_file_read_block()
868 and fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() into one function
869 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_attr_read_block(). Also, create a tiny wrapper
870 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() to transform the parameters from
871 the VFS readpage function prototype to the ntfs_attr_read_block()
872 function prototype.
873
8742.0.11 - Initial preparations for fake inode based attribute i/o.
875
876 - Move definition of ntfs_inode_state_bits to fs/ntfs/inode.h and
877 do some macro magic (adapted from include/linux/buffer_head.h) to
878 expand all the helper functions NInoFoo(), NInoSetFoo(), and
879 NInoClearFoo().
880 - Add new flag to ntfs_inode_state_bits: NI_Sparse.
881 - Add new fields to ntfs_inode structure to allow use of fake inodes
882 for attribute i/o: type, name, name_len. Also add new state bits:
883 NI_Attr, which, if set, indicates the inode is a fake inode, and
884 NI_MstProtected, which, if set, indicates the attribute uses multi
885 sector transfer protection, i.e. fixups need to be applied after
886 reads and before/after writes.
887 - Rename fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_inode() to
888 ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_extent_inode() and update callers.
889 - Use ntfs_clear_extent_inode() in fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_clear_inode()
890 instead of ntfs_destroy_extent_inode().
891 - Cleanup memory deallocations in {__,}ntfs_clear_{,big_}inode().
892 - Make all operations on ntfs inode state bits use the NIno* functions.
893 - Set up the new ntfs inode fields and state bits in
894 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_inode() and add appropriate cleanup of
895 allocated memory to __ntfs_clear_inode().
896 - Cleanup ntfs_inode structure a bit for better ordering of elements
897 w.r.t. their size to allow better packing of the structure in memory.
898
8992.0.10 - There can only be 2^32 - 1 inodes on an NTFS volume.
900
901 - Add check at mount time to verify that the number of inodes on the
902 volume does not exceed 2^32 - 1, which is the maximum allowed for
903 NTFS according to Microsoft.
904 - Change mft_no member of ntfs_inode structure to be unsigned long.
905 Update all users. This makes ntfs_inode->mft_no just a copy of struct
906 inode->i_ino. But we can't just always use struct inode->i_ino and
907 remove mft_no because extent inodes do not have an attached struct
908 inode.
909
9102.0.9 - Decompression engine now uses a single buffer and other cleanups.
911
912 - Change decompression engine to use a single buffer protected by a
913 spin lock instead of per-CPU buffers. (Rusty Russell)
914 - Do not update cb_pos when handling a partial final page during
915 decompression of a sparse compression block, as the value is later
916 reset without being read/used. (Rusty Russell)
917 - Switch to using the new KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ for atomic kmap()s. (Andrew
918 Morton)
919 - Change buffer size in ntfs_readdir()/ntfs_filldir() to use
920 NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE which makes the buffers almost 1kiB each but
921 it also makes everything safer so it is a good thing.
922 - Miscellaneous minor cleanups to comments.
923
9242.0.8 - Major updates for handling of case sensitivity and dcache aliasing.
925
926 Big thanks go to Al Viro and other inhabitants of #kernel for investing
927 their time to discuss the case sensitivity and dcache aliasing issues.
928
929 - Remove unused source file fs/ntfs/attraops.c.
930 - Remove show_inodes mount option(s), thus dropping support for
931 displaying of short file names.
932 - Remove deprecated mount option posix.
933 - Restore show_sys_files mount option.
934 - Add new mount option case_sensitive, to determine if the driver
935 treats file names as case sensitive or not. If case sensitive, create
936 file names in the POSIX namespace. Otherwise create file names in the
937 LONG/WIN32 namespace. Note, files remain accessible via their short
938 file name, if it exists.
939 - Remove really dumb logic bug in boot sector recovery code.
940 - Fix dcache aliasing issues wrt short/long file names via changes
941 to fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() and
942 fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup():
943 - Add additional argument to ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() in which we
944 return information about the matching file name if the case is not
945 matching or the match is a short file name. See comments above the
946 function definition for details.
947 - Change ntfs_lookup() to only create dcache entries for the correctly
948 cased file name and only for the WIN32 namespace counterpart of DOS
949 namespace file names. This ensures we have only one dentry per
950 directory and also removes all dcache aliasing issues between short
951 and long file names once we add write support. See comments above
952 function for details.
953 - Fix potential 1 byte overflow in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_ucstonls().
954
9552.0.7 - Minor cleanups and updates for changes in core kernel code.
956
957 - Remove much of the NULL struct element initializers.
958 - Various updates to make compatible with recent kernels.
959 - Remove defines of MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE and include linux/buffer_head.h
960 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h instead.
961 - Remove no longer needed KERNEL_VERSION checks. We are now in the
962 kernel proper so they are no longer needed.
963
9642.0.6 - Major bugfix to make compatible with other kernel changes.
965
966 - Initialize the mftbmp address space properly now that there are more
967 fields in the struct address_space. This was leading to hangs and
968 oopses on umount since 2.5.12 because of changes to other parts of
969 the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space()
970 function...
971 - Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The
972 only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_sem during
973 the call, and i_sem is sufficient protection against changes in the
974 directory inode (including ->i_size).
975 - Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to
976 default_llseek()) as this downs i_sem instead of the BKL which is
977 what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we
978 no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir().
979
9802.0.5 - Major bugfix. Buffer overflow in extent inode handling.
981
982 - No need to set old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as the
983 VFS does so via invocation of deactivate_super() calling
984 fs->fill_super() calling block_kill_super() which does it.
985 - BKL moved from VFS into dir.c::ntfs_readdir(). (Linus Torvalds)
986 -> Do we really need it? I don't think so as we have exclusion on
987 the directory ntfs_inode rw_semaphore mrec_lock. We mmight have to
988 move the ->f_pos accesses under the mrec_lock though. Check this...
989 - Fix really, really, really stupid buffer overflow in extent inode
990 handling in mft.c::map_extent_mft_record().
991
9922.0.4 - Cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.11.
993
994 - Add documentation on how to use the MD driver to be able to use NTFS
995 stripe and volume sets in Linux and generally cleanup documentation
996 a bit.
997 Remove all uses of kdev_t in favour of struct block_device *:
998 - Change compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() to use
999 sb_getblk() instead of getblk().
1000 - Change super.c::ntfs_fill_super() to use bdev_hardsect_size() instead
1001 of get_hardsect_size().
1002 - No need to get old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as
1003 fs/super.c::get_sb_bdev() already does this.
1004 - Set bh->b_bdev instead of bh->b_dev throughout aops.c.
1005
10062.0.3 - Small bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements.
1007
1008 - Remove some dead code from mft.c.
1009 - Optimize readpage and read_block functions throughout aops.c so that
1010 only initialized blocks are read. Non-initialized ones have their
1011 buffer head mapped, zeroed, and set up to date, without scheduling
1012 any i/o. Thanks to Al Viro for advice on how to avoid the device i/o.
1013 Thanks go to Andrew Morton for spotting the below:
1014 - Fix buglet in allocate_compression_buffers() error code path.
1015 - Call flush_dcache_page() after modifying page cache page contents in
1016 ntfs_file_readpage().
1017 - Check for existence of page buffers throughout aops.c before calling
1018 create_empty_buffers(). This happens when an I/O error occurs and the
1019 read is retried. (It also happens once writing is implemented so that
1020 needed doing anyway but I had left it for later...)
1021 - Don't BUG_ON() uptodate and/or mapped buffers throughout aops.c in
1022 readpage and read_block functions. Reasoning same as above (i.e. I/O
1023 error retries and future write code paths.)
1024
10252.0.2 - Minor updates and cleanups.
1026
1027 - Cleanup: rename mst.c::__post_read_mst_fixup to post_write_mst_fixup
1028 and cleanup the code a bit, removing the unused size parameter.
1029 - Change default fmask to 0177 and update documentation.
1030 - Change attrib.c::get_attr_search_ctx() to return the search context
1031 directly instead of taking the address of a pointer. A return value
1032 of NULL means the allocation failed. Updated all callers
1033 appropriately.
1034 - Update to 2.5.9 kernel (preserving backwards compatibility) by
1035 replacing all occurences of page->buffers with page_buffers(page).
1036 - Fix minor bugs in runlist merging, also minor cleanup.
1037 - Updates to bootsector layout and mft mirror contents descriptions.
1038 - Small bug fix in error detection in unistr.c and some cleanups.
1039 - Grow name buffer allocations in unistr.c in aligned mutlipled of 64
1040 bytes.
1041
10422.0.1 - Minor updates.
1043
1044 - Make default umask correspond to documentation.
1045 - Improve documentation.
1046 - Set default mode to include execute bit. The {u,f,d}mask can be used
1047 to take it away if desired. This allows binaries to be executed from
1048 a mounted ntfs partition.
1049
10502.0.0 - New version number. Remove TNG from the name. Now in the kernel.
1051
1052 - Add kill_super, just keeping up with the vfs changes in the kernel.
1053 - Repeat some changes from tng-0.0.8 that somehow got lost on the way
1054 from the CVS import into BitKeeper.
1055 - Begin to implement proper handling of allocated_size vs
1056 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size). Done are
1057 mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage(), aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async(),
1058 and attrib.c::load_attribute_list().
1059 - Lock the runlist in attrib.c::load_attribute_list() while using it.
1060 - Fix memory leak in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() and generally
1061 clean up compress.c a little, removing some uncommented/unused debug
1062 code.
1063 - Tidy up dir.c a little bit.
1064 - Don't bother getting the runlist in inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1065 - Merge mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage() and aops.c::ntfs_index_readpage()
1066 creating aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage(), improving the handling of
1067 holes and overflow in the process and implementing the correct
1068 equivalent of ntfs_file_get_block() in ntfs_mst_readpage() itself.
1069 I am aiming for correctness at the moment. Modularisation can come
1070 later.
1071 - Rename aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async() to
1072 end_buffer_read_mst_async() and optimize the overflow checking and
1073 handling.
1074 - Use the host of the mftbmp address space mapping to hold the ntfs
1075 volume. This is needed so the async i/o completion handler can
1076 retrieve a pointer to the volume. Hopefully this will not cause
1077 problems elsewhere in the kernel... Otherwise will need to use a
1078 fake inode.
1079 - Complete implementation of proper handling of allocated_size vs
1080 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size) in whole driver.
1081 Basically aops.c is now completely rewritten.
1082 - Change NTFS driver name to just NTFS and set version number to 2.0.0
1083 to make a clear distinction from the old driver which is still on
1084 version 1.1.22.
1085
1086tng-0.0.8 - 08/03/2002 - Now using BitKeeper, http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/
1087
1088 - Replace bdevname(sb->s_dev) with sb->s_id.
1089 - Remove now superfluous new-line characters in all callers of
1090 ntfs_debug().
1091 - Apply kludge in ntfs_read_inode(), setting i_nlink to 1 for
1092 directories. Without this the "find" utility gets very upset which is
1093 fair enough as Linux/Unix do not support directory hard links.
1094 - Further runlist merging work. (Richard Russon)
1095 - Backwards compatibility for gcc-2.95. (Richard Russon)
1096 - Update to kernel 2.5.5-pre1 and rediff the now tiny patch.
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001097 - Convert to new filesystem declaration using ->ntfs_get_sb() and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001098 replacing ntfs_read_super() with ntfs_fill_super().
1099 - Set s_maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to avoid page cache page index
1100 overflow on 32-bit architectures.
1101 - Cleanup upcase loading code to use ntfs_(un)map_page().
1102 - Disable/reenable preemtion in critical sections of compession engine.
1103 - Replace device size determination in ntfs_fill_super() with
1104 sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_size (in bytes) and remove now superfluous
1105 function super.c::get_nr_blocks().
1106 - Implement a mount time option (show_inodes) allowing choice of which
1107 types of inode names readdir() returns and modify ntfs_filldir()
1108 accordingly. There are several parameters to show_inodes:
1109 system: system files
1110 win32: long file names (including POSIX file names) [DEFAULT]
1111 long: same as win32
1112 dos: short file names only (excluding POSIX file names)
1113 short: same as dos
1114 posix: same as both win32 and dos
1115 all: all file names
1116 Note that the options are additive, i.e. specifying:
1117 -o show_inodes=system,show_inodes=win32,show_inodes=dos
1118 is the same as specifying:
1119 -o show_inodes=all
1120 Note that the "posix" and "all" options will show all directory
1121 names, BUT the link count on each directory inode entry is set to 1,
1122 due to Linux not supporting directory hard links. This may well
1123 confuse some userspace applications, since the directory names will
1124 have the same inode numbers. Thus it is NOT advisable to use the
1125 "posix" or "all" options. We provide them only for completeness sake.
1126 - Add copies of allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size to
1127 the ntfs inode structure and set them up in
1128 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). These reflect the unnamed data attribute
1129 for files and the index allocation attribute for directories.
1130 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs inode for
1131 $BITMAP attribute of large directories and set them up in
1132 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1133 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs volume for
1134 $BITMAP attribute of $MFT and set them up in
1135 super.c::load_system_files().
1136 - Parse deprecated ntfs driver options (iocharset, show_sys_files,
1137 posix, and utf8) and tell user what the new options to use are. Note
1138 we still do support them but they will be removed with kernel 2.7.x.
1139 - Change all occurences of integer long long printf formatting to hex
1140 as printk() will not support long long integer format if/when the
1141 div64 patch goes into the kernel.
1142 - Make slab caches have stable names and change the names to what they
1143 were intended to be. These changes are required/made possible by the
1144 new slab cache name handling which removes the length limitation by
1145 requiring the caller of kmem_cache_create() to supply a stable name
1146 which is then referenced but not copied.
1147 - Rename run_list structure to run_list_element and create a new
1148 run_list structure containing a pointer to a run_list_element
1149 structure and a read/write semaphore. Adapt all users of runlists
1150 to new scheme and take and release the lock as needed. This fixes a
1151 nasty race as the run_list changes even when inodes are locked for
1152 reading and even when the inode isn't locked at all, so we really
1153 needed the serialization. We use a semaphore rather than a spinlock
1154 as memory allocations can sleep and doing everything GFP_ATOMIC
1155 would be silly.
1156 - Cleanup read_inode() removing all code checking for lowest_vcn != 0.
1157 This can never happen due to the nature of lookup_attr() and how we
1158 support attribute lists. If it did happen it would imply the inode
1159 being corrupt.
1160 - Check for lowest_vcn != 0 in ntfs_read_inode() and mark the inode as
1161 bad if found.
1162 - Update to 2.5.6-pre2 changes in struct address_space.
1163 - Use parent_ino() when accessing d_parent inode number in dir.c.
1164 - Import Sourceforge CVS repository into BitKeeper repository:
1165 http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-tng-2.5
1166 - Update fs/Makefile, fs/Config.help, fs/Config.in, and
1167 Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for NTFS TNG.
1168 - Create kernel configuration option controlling whether debugging
1169 is enabled or not.
1170 - Add the required export of end_buffer_io_sync() from the patches
1171 directory to the kernel code.
1172 - Update inode.c::ntfs_show_options() with show_inodes mount option.
1173 - Update errors mount option.
1174
1175tng-0.0.7 - 13/02/2002 - The driver is now feature complete for read-only!
1176
1177 - Cleanup mft.c and it's debug/error output in particular. Fix a minor
1178 bug in mapping of extent inodes. Update all the comments to fit all
1179 the recent code changes.
1180 - Modify vcn_to_lcn() to cope with entirely unmapped runlists.
1181 - Cleanups in compress.c, mostly comments and folding help.
1182 - Implement attrib.c::map_run_list() as a generic helper.
1183 - Make compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() use map_run_list()
1184 thus making code shorter and enabling attribute list support.
1185 - Cleanup incorrect use of [su]64 with %L printf format specifier in
1186 all source files. Type casts to [unsigned] long long added to correct
1187 the mismatches (important for architectures which have long long not
1188 being 64 bits).
1189 - Merge async io completion handlers for directory indexes and $MFT
1190 data into one by setting the index_block_size{_bits} of the ntfs
1191 inode for $MFT to the mft_record_size{_bits} of the ntfs_volume.
1192 - Cleanup aops.c, update comments.
1193 - Make ntfs_file_get_block() use map_run_list() so all files now
1194 support attribute lists.
1195 - Make ntfs_dir_readpage() almost verbatim copy of
1196 block_read_full_page() by using ntfs_file_get_block() with only real
1197 difference being the use of our own async io completion handler
1198 rather than the default one, thus reducing the amount of code and
1199 automatically enabling attribute list support for directory indices.
1200 - Fix bug in load_attribute_list() - forgot to call brelse in error
1201 code path.
1202 - Change parameters to find_attr() and lookup_attr(). We no longer
1203 pass in the upcase table and its length. These can be gotten from
1204 ctx->ntfs_ino->vol->upcase{_len}. Update all callers.
1205 - Cleanups in attrib.c.
1206 - Implement merging of runlists, attrib.c::merge_run_lists() and its
1207 helpers. (Richard Russon)
1208 - Attribute lists part 2, attribute extents and multi part runlists:
1209 enable proper support for LCN_RL_NOT_MAPPED and automatic mapping of
1210 further runlist parts via attrib.c::map_run_list().
1211 - Tiny endianness bug fix in decompress_mapping_pairs().
1212
1213tng-0.0.6 - Encrypted directories, bug fixes, cleanups, debugging enhancements.
1214
1215 - Enable encrypted directories. (Their index root is marked encrypted
1216 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1217 encrypted.)
1218 - Fix bug in NInoBmpNonResident() macro. (Cut and paste error.)
1219 - Enable $Extend system directory. Most (if not all) extended system
1220 files do not have unnamed data attributes so ntfs_read_inode() had to
1221 special case them but that is ok, as the special casing recovery
1222 happens inside an error code path so there is zero slow down in the
1223 normal fast path. The special casing is done by introducing a new
1224 function inode.c::ntfs_is_extended_system_file() which checks if any
1225 of the hard links in the inode point to $Extend as being their parent
1226 directory and if they do we assume this is an extended system file.
1227 - Create a sysctl/proc interface to allow {dis,en}abling of debug output
1228 when compiled with -DDEBUG. Default is debug messages to be disabled.
1229 To enable them, one writes a non-zero value to /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
1230 (if /proc is enabled) or uses sysctl(2) to effect the same (if sysctl
1231 interface is enabled). Inspired by old ntfs driver.
1232 - Add debug_msgs insmod/kernel boot parameter to set whether debug
1233 messages are {dis,en}abled. This is useful to enable debug messages
1234 during ntfs initialization and is the only way to activate debugging
1235 when the sysctl interface is not enabled.
1236 - Cleanup debug output in various places.
1237 - Remove all dollar signs ($) from the source (except comments) to
1238 enable compilation on architectures whose gcc compiler does not
1239 support dollar signs in the names of variables/constants. Attribute
1240 types now start with AT_ instead of $ and $I30 is now just I30.
1241 - Cleanup ntfs_lookup() and add consistency check of sequence numbers.
1242 - Load complete runlist for $MFT/$BITMAP during mount and cleanup
1243 access functions. This means we now cope with $MFT/$BITMAP being
1244 spread accross several mft records.
1245 - Disable modification of mft_zone_multiplier on remount. We can always
1246 reenable this later on if we really want to, but we will need to make
1247 sure we readjust the mft_zone size / layout accordingly.
1248
1249tng-0.0.5 - Modernize for 2.5.x and further in line-ing with Al Viro's comments.
1250
1251 - Use sb_set_blocksize() instead of set_blocksize() and verify the
1252 return value.
1253 - Use sb_bread() instead of bread() throughout.
1254 - Add index_vcn_size{_bits} to ntfs_inode structure to store the size
1255 of a directory index block vcn. Apply resulting simplifications in
1256 dir.c everywhere.
1257 - Fix a small bug somewhere (but forgot what it was).
1258 - Change ntfs_{debug,error,warning} to enable gcc to do type checking
1259 on the printf-format parameter list and fix bugs reported by gcc
1260 as a result. (Richard Russon)
1261 - Move inode allocation strategy to Al's new stuff but maintain the
1262 divorce of ntfs_inode from struct inode. To achieve this we have two
1263 separate slab caches, one for big ntfs inodes containing a struct
1264 inode and pure ntfs inodes and at the same time fix some faulty
1265 error code paths in ntfs_read_inode().
1266 - Show mount options in proc (inode.c::ntfs_show_options()).
1267
1268tng-0.0.4 - Big changes, getting in line with Al Viro's comments.
1269
1270 - Modified (un)map_mft_record functions to be common for read and write
1271 case. To specify which is which, added extra parameter at front of
1272 parameter list. Pass either READ or WRITE to this, each has the
1273 obvious meaning.
1274 - General cleanups to allow for easier folding in vi.
1275 - attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() now accepts the old runlist
1276 argument, and invokes attrib.c::merge_run_lists() to merge the old
1277 and the new runlists.
1278 - Removed attrib.c::find_first_attr().
1279 - Implemented loading of attribute list and complete runlist for $MFT.
1280 This means we now cope with $MFT being spread across several mft
1281 records.
1282 - Adapt to 2.5.2-pre9 and the changed create_empty_buffers() syntax.
1283 - Adapt major/minor/kdev_t/[bk]devname stuff to new 2.5.x kernels.
1284 - Make ntfs_volume be allocated via kmalloc() instead of using a slab
1285 cache. There are too little ntfs_volume structures at any one time
1286 to justify a private slab cache.
1287 - Fix bogus kmap() use in async io completion. Now use kmap_atomic().
1288 Use KM_BIO_IRQ on advice from IRC/kernel...
1289 - Use ntfs_map_page() in map_mft_record() and create ->readpage method
1290 for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated
1291 address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also
1292 removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch.
1293 - Fix a bug where kfree() was used insted of ntfs_free().
1294 - Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of
1295 vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers.
1296 - Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode.
1297 - Add mft record number and sequence number to ntfs_inode. Stop using
1298 i_ino and i_generation for in-driver purposes.
1299 - Implement attrib.c::merge_run_lists(). (Richard Russon)
1300 - Remove use of proper inodes by extent inodes. Move i_ino and
1301 i_generation to ntfs_inode to do this. Apply simplifications that
1302 result and remove iget_no_wait(), etc.
1303 - Pass ntfs_inode everywhere in the driver (used to be struct inode).
1304 - Add reference counting in ntfs_inode for the ntfs inode itself and
1305 for the mapped mft record.
1306 - Extend mft record mapping so we can (un)map extent mft records (new
1307 functions (un)map_extent_mft_record), and so mappings are reference
1308 counted and don't have to happen twice if already mapped - just ref
1309 count increases.
1310 - Add -o iocharset as alias to -o nls for backwards compatibility.
1311 - The latest core patch is now tiny. In fact just a single additional
1312 export is necessary over the base kernel.
1313
1314tng-0.0.3 - Cleanups, enhancements, bug fixes.
1315
1316 - Work on attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() to detect base extents
1317 and setup the runlist appropriately using knowledge provided by the
1318 sizes in the base attribute record.
1319 - Balance the get_/put_attr_search_ctx() calls so we don't leak memory
1320 any more.
1321 - Introduce ntfs_malloc_nofs() and ntfs_free() to allocate/free a single
1322 page or use vmalloc depending on the amount of memory requested.
1323 - Cleanup error output. The __FUNCTION__ "(): " is now added
1324 automatically. Introduced a new header file debug.h to support this
1325 and also moved ntfs_debug() function into it.
1326 - Make reading of compressed files more intelligent and especially get
1327 rid of the vmalloc_nofs() from readpage(). This now uses per CPU
1328 buffers (allocated at first mount with cluster size <= 4kiB and
1329 deallocated on last umount with cluster size <= 4kiB), and
1330 asynchronous io for the compressed data using a list of buffer heads.
1331 Er, we use synchronous io as async io only works on whole pages
1332 covered by buffers and not on individual buffer heads...
1333 - Bug fix for reading compressed files with sparse compression blocks.
1334
1335tng-0.0.2 - Now handles larger/fragmented/compressed volumes/files/dirs.
1336
1337 - Fixed handling of directories when cluster size exceeds index block
1338 size.
1339 - Hide DOS only name space directory entries from readdir() but allow
1340 them in lookup(). This should fix the problem that Linux doesn't
1341 support directory hard links, while still allowing access to entries
1342 via their short file name. This also has the benefit of mimicking
1343 what Windows users are used to, so it is the ideal solution.
1344 - Implemented sync_page everywhere so no more hangs in D state when
1345 waiting for a page.
1346 - Stop using bforget() in favour of brelse().
1347 - Stop locking buffers unnecessarily.
1348 - Implemented compressed files (inode->mapping contains uncompressed
1349 data, raw compressed data is currently bread() into a vmalloc()ed
1350 memory buffer).
1351 - Enable compressed directories. (Their index root is marked compressed
1352 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1353 compressed.)
1354 - Use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in the ntfs_error and ntfs_warning
1355 functions. (Thanks to Will Dyson for pointing this out.)
1356 - Moved the ntfs_inode and ntfs_volume (the former ntfs_inode_info and
1357 ntfs_sb_info) out of the common inode and super_block structures and
1358 started using the generic_ip and generic_sbp pointers instead. This
1359 makes ntfs entirely private with respect to the kernel tree.
1360 - Detect compiler version and abort with error message if gcc less than
1361 2.96 is used.
1362 - Fix bug in name comparison function in unistr.c.
1363 - Implement attribute lists part 1, the infrastructure: search contexts
1364 and operations, find_external_attr(), lookup_attr()) and make the
1365 code use the infrastructure.
1366 - Fix stupid buffer overflow bug that became apparent on larger run
1367 list containing attributes.
1368 - Fix bugs in readdir() that became apparent on larger directories.
1369
1370 The driver is now really useful and survives the test
1371 find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
1372 without any error messages on a over 1GiB sized partition with >16k
1373 files on it, including compressed files and directories and many files
1374 and directories with attribute lists.
1375
1376tng-0.0.1 - The first useful version.
1377
1378 - Added ntfs_lookup().
1379 - Added default upcase generation and handling.
1380 - Added compile options to be shown on module init.
1381 - Many bug fixes that were "hidden" before.
1382 - Update to latest kernel.
1383 - Added ntfs_readdir().
1384 - Added file operations for mmap(), read(), open() and llseek(). We just
1385 use the generic ones. The whole point of going through implementing
1386 readpage() methods and where possible get_block() call backs is that
1387 this allows us to make use of the generic high level methods provided
1388 by the kernel.
1389
1390 The driver is now actually useful! Yey. (-: It undoubtedly has got bugs
1391 though and it doesn't implement accesssing compressed files yet. Also,
1392 accessing files with attribute list attributes is not implemented yet
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001393 either. But for small or simple filesystems it should work and allow
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001394 you to list directories, use stat on directory entries and the file
1395 system, open, read, mmap and llseek around in files. A big mile stone
1396 has been reached!
1397
1398tng-0.0.0 - Initial version tag.
1399
1400 Initial driver implementation. The driver can mount and umount simple
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001401 NTFS filesystems (i.e. ones without attribute lists in the system
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001402 files). If the mount fails there might be problems in the error handling
1403 code paths, so be warned. Otherwise it seems to be loading the system
1404 files nicely and the mft record read mapping/unmapping seems to be
1405 working nicely, too. Proof of inode metadata in the page cache and non-
1406 resident file unnamed stream data in the page cache concepts is thus
1407 complete.