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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.
Anton Altaparmakov271849a2005-03-07 21:36:18 +000091 - Add AT_EA in addition to AT_DATA to whitelist for being allowed to be
92 non-resident in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident().
93 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_vcn_to_lcn_nolock() used by the new
94 write code.
Anton Altaparmakovc0c1cc02005-03-07 21:43:38 +000095 - Fix bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() where after
96 dropping the read lock and taking the write lock we were not checking
97 whether someone else did not already do the work we wanted to do.
98 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_find_vcn_nolock() to
99 ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() and update all callers.
Anton Altaparmakov2bfb4ff2005-03-09 15:15:06 +0000100 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_make_non_resident().
Anton Altaparmakov43b01fd2005-03-09 15:18:43 +0000101 - Fix sign of various error return values to be negative in
102 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c.
Anton Altaparmakov905685f2005-03-10 11:06:19 +0000103 - Modify ->readpage and ->writepage (fs/ntfs/aops.c) so they detect and
104 handle the case where an attribute is converted from resident to
105 non-resident by a concurrent file write.
Jesper Juhl251c8422005-04-04 14:59:56 +0100106 - Remove checks for NULL before calling kfree() since kfree() does the
107 checking itself. (Jesper Juhl)
Anton Altaparmakovb0d23742005-04-04 16:20:14 +0100108 - Some utilities modify the boot sector but do not update the checksum.
109 Thus, relax the checking in fs/ntfs/super.c::is_boot_sector_ntfs() to
110 only emit a warning when the checksum is incorrect rather than
111 refusing the mount. Thanks to Bernd Casimir for pointing this
112 problem out.
Anton Altaparmakovbb3cf332005-04-06 13:34:31 +0100113 - Update attribute definition handling.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700114
1152.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
116
117 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate().
118 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to return an error code
119 instead of void and provide a helper ntfs_truncate_vfs() for the
120 vfs ->truncate method.
121 - Add a new ntfs inode flag NInoTruncateFailed() and modify
122 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to set and clear it appropriately.
123 - Fix min_size and max_size definitions in ATTR_DEF structure in
124 fs/ntfs/layout.h to be signed.
125 - Add attribute definition handling helpers to fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]:
126 ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check(), ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident(), and
127 ntfs_attr_can_be_resident(), which in turn use the new private helper
128 ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef().
129 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty(), take the
130 mapping->private_lock around the dirtying of the buffer heads
131 analagous to the way it is done in __set_page_dirty_buffers().
132 - Ensure the mft record size does not exceed the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at
133 mount time as this cannot work with the current implementation.
134 - Check for location of attribute name and improve error handling in
135 general in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() and friends.
136 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage(), if the page is fully outside
137 i_size, i.e. race with truncate, invalidate the buffers on the page
138 so that they become freeable and hence the page does not leak.
139 - Remove unused function fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_merge(). (Adrian
140 Bunk)
141 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_find() that resulted in
142 a NULL pointer dereference in the error code path when a corrupt
143 attribute was found. (Thanks to Domen Puncer for the bug report.)
144 - Add MODULE_VERSION() to fs/ntfs/super.c.
145 - Make several functions and variables static. (Adrian Bunk)
146 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() so it allocates
147 buffers for the page if they are not present and then marks the
148 buffers belonging to the ntfs record dirty. This causes the buffers
149 to become busy and hence they are safe from removal until the page
150 has been written out.
151 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find() in the
152 error handling code path that resulted in a BUG() due to trying to
153 unmap an extent mft record when the mapping of it had failed and it
154 thus was not mapped. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for the bug report.)
155 - Drop the runlist lock after the vcn has been read in
156 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::__ntfs_cluster_free().
157 - Rewrite handling of multi sector transfer errors. We now do not set
158 PageError() when such errors are detected in the async i/o handler
159 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(). All users of mst
160 protected attributes now check the magic of each ntfs record as they
161 use it and act appropriately. This has the effect of making errors
162 granular per ntfs record rather than per page which solves the case
163 where we cannot access any of the ntfs records in a page when a
164 single one of them had an mst error. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for
165 the bug report.)
166 - Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date()
167 where we failed to release i_sem on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode.
168 - Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
169 - Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e.
170 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(),
171 and write_mft_record_nolock(). From now on we require that the
172 complete runlist for the mft mirror is always mapped into memory.
173 - Add creation of buffers to fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
174 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block().
175 - Cleanup fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page() since we know that a
176 resident attribute will be smaller than a page which makes the code
177 simpler. Also make the code more tolerant to concurrent ->truncate.
178
1792.1.21 - Fix some races and bugs, rewrite mft write code, add mft allocator.
180
181 - Implement extent mft record deallocation
182 fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_extent_mft_record_free().
183 - Splitt runlist related functions off from attrib.[hc] to runlist.[hc].
184 - Add vol->mft_data_pos and initialize it at mount time.
185 - Rename init_runlist() to ntfs_init_runlist(), ntfs_vcn_to_lcn() to
186 ntfs_rl_vcn_to_lcn(), decompress_mapping_pairs() to
187 ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(), ntfs_merge_runlists() to
188 ntfs_runlists_merge() and adapt all callers.
189 - Add fs/ntfs/runlist.[hc]::ntfs_get_nr_significant_bytes(),
190 ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs(), ntfs_write_significant_bytes(),
191 and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build(), adapted from libntfs.
192 - Make fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() not
193 static and add a declaration for it to lcnalloc.h.
194 - Add fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.h::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl() which is a static
195 inline wrapper for ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() which takes the
196 cluster bitmap lock for the duration of the call.
197 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_record_resize().
198 - Implement the equivalent of memset() for an ntfs attribute in
199 fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_set() and switch
200 fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_empty_logfile() to using it.
201 - Remove unnecessary casts from LCN_* constants.
202 - Implement fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock().
203 - Add MFT_RECORD_OLD as a copy of MFT_RECORD in fs/ntfs/layout.h and
204 change MFT_RECORD to contain the NTFS 3.1+ specific fields.
205 - Add a helper function fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which
206 marks all buffers belonging to an ntfs record dirty, followed by
207 marking the page the ntfs record is in dirty and also marking the vfs
208 inode containing the ntfs record dirty (I_DIRTY_PAGES).
209 - Switch fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to using the
210 new helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and remove the no
211 longer needed fs/ntfs/index.[hc]::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty().
212 - Move ntfs_{un,}map_page() from ntfs.h to aops.h and fix resulting
213 include errors.
214 - Move the typedefs for runlist_element and runlist from types.h to
215 runlist.h and fix resulting include errors.
216 - Remove unused {__,}format_mft_record() from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
217 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::__mark_mft_record_dirty() to use the helper
218 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which also changes the behaviour in that we
219 now set the buffers belonging to the mft record dirty as well as the
220 page itself.
221 - Update fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and sync_mft_mirror()
222 to cope with the fact that there now are dirty buffers in mft pages.
223 - Update fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode() to also use the helper
224 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and thus to set the buffers belonging to the
225 mft record dirty as well as the page itself.
226 - Fix compiler warnings on x86-64 in fs/ntfs/dir.c. (Randy Dunlap,
227 slightly modified by me)
228 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record() which fails with -EALREADY if
229 the mft record is already locked and otherwise behaves the same way
230 as fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_mft_record().
231 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() so that it only
232 writes the mft record if the buffers belonging to it are dirty.
233 Otherwise we assume that it was written out by other means already.
234 - Attempting to write outside initialized size is _not_ a bug so remove
235 the bug check from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(). It is in
236 fact required to write outside initialized size when preparing to
237 extend the initialized size.
238 - Map the page instead of using page_address() before writing to it in
239 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mft_writepage().
240 - Provide exclusion between opening an inode / mapping an mft record
241 and accessing the mft record in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage()
242 by setting the page not uptodate throughout ntfs_mft_writepage().
243 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block()
244 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
245 - Add the helper fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_may_write_mft_record() which
246 checks if an mft record may be written out safely obtaining any
247 necessary locks in the process. This is used by
248 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block().
249 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to also work for
250 writing mft records and improve its error handling in the process.
251 Now if any of the records in the page fail to be written out, all
252 other records will be written out instead of aborting completely.
253 - Remove ntfs_mft_aops and update all users to use ntfs_mst_aops.
254 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to set the
255 ntfs_mst_aops for all inodes which are NInoMstProtected() and
256 ntfs_aops for all other inodes.
257 - Rename fs/ntfs/mft.c::sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() to
258 ntfs_sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() and change their parameters so they
259 no longer require an ntfs inode to be present. Update all callers.
260 - Cleanup the error handling in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
261 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror()
262 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
263 - Remove the no longer needed fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() and
264 fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record().
265 - Fix callers of fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to call it
266 with the ntfs inode which contains the page rather than the ntfs
267 inode the mft record of which is in the page.
268 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by moving the
269 index inode bitmap inode release code from there to
270 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_clear_big_inode(). (Thanks to Christoph
271 Hellwig for spotting this.)
272 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by taking the
273 inode semaphore around the code that sets ni->itype.index.bmp_ino to
274 NULL and reorganize the code to optimize it a bit. (Thanks to
275 Christoph Hellwig for spotting this.)
276 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to no longer take the
277 ntfs inode as a parameter as this is confusing and misleading and the
278 needed ntfs inode is available via NTFS_I(page->mapping->host).
279 Adapt all callers to this change.
280 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and
281 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to only check the dirty state
282 of the first buffer in a record and to take this as the ntfs record
283 dirty state. We cannot look at the dirty state for subsequent
284 buffers because we might be racing with
285 fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty().
286 - Move the static inline ntfs_init_big_inode() from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
287 inode.h and make fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_init_inode() non-static and
288 add a declaration for it to inode.h. Fix some compilation issues
289 that resulted due to #includes and header file interdependencies.
290 - Simplify setup of i_mode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode().
291 - Add helpers fs/ntfs/layout.h::MK_MREF() and MK_LE_MREF().
292 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() to only verify the mft
293 record sequence number if it is specified (i.e. not zero).
294 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_alloc() and various helper
295 functions used by it.
296 - Update Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt with instructions on how to
297 use the Device-Mapper driver with NTFS ftdisk/LDM raid. This removes
298 the linear raid problem with the Software RAID / MD driver when one
299 or more of the devices has an odd number of sectors.
300
3012.1.20 - Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release.
302
303 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx()
304 where we did not clear ctx->al_entry but it was still set due to
305 changes in ntfs_attr_lookup() and ntfs_external_attr_find() in
306 particular.
307 - Fix another stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find()
308 where we forgot to unmap the extent mft record when we had finished
309 enumerating an attribute which caused a bug check to trigger when the
310 VFS calls ->clear_inode.
311
3122.1.19 - Many cleanups, improvements, and a minor bug fix.
313
314 - Update ->setattr (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) to refuse to
315 change the uid, gid, and mode of an inode as we do not support NTFS
316 ACLs yet.
317 - Remove BKL use from ntfs_setattr() syncing up with the rest of the
318 kernel.
319 - Get rid of the ugly transparent union in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir()
320 and ntfs_filldir() as per suggestion from Al Viro.
321 - Change '\0' and L'\0' to simply 0 as per advice from Linus Torvalds.
322 - Update ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) to check if the
323 inode size has changed and to only output an error if so.
324 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.h::attribute_value_length() to ntfs_attr_size().
325 - Add le{16,32,64} as well as sle{16,32,64} data types to
326 fs/ntfs/types.h.
327 - Change ntfschar to be le16 instead of u16 in fs/ntfs/types.h.
328 - Add le versions of VCN, LCN, and LSN called leVCN, leLCN, and leLSN,
329 respectively, to fs/ntfs/types.h.
330 - Update endianness conversion macros in fs/ntfs/endian.h to use the
331 new types as appropriate.
332 - Do proper type casting when using sle64_to_cpup() in fs/ntfs/dir.c
333 and index.c.
334 - Add leMFT_REF data type to fs/ntfs/layout.h.
335 - Update all NTFS header files with the new little endian data types.
336 Affected files are fs/ntfs/layout.h, logfile.h, and time.h.
337 - Do proper type casting when using ntfs_is_*_recordp() in
338 fs/ntfs/logfile.c, mft.c, and super.c.
339 - Fix all the sparse bitwise warnings. Had to change all the typedef
340 enums storing little endian values to simple enums plus a typedef for
341 the datatype to make sparse happy.
342 - Fix a bug found by the new sparse bitwise warnings where the default
343 upcase table was defined as a pointer to wchar_t rather than ntfschar
344 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h and super.c.
345 - Change {const_,}cpu_to_le{16,32}(0) to just 0 as suggested by Al Viro.
346
3472.1.18 - Fix scheduling latencies at mount time as well as an endianness bug.
348
349 - Remove vol->nr_mft_records as it was pretty meaningless and optimize
350 the calculation of total/free inodes as used by statfs().
351 - Fix scheduling latencies in ntfs_fill_super() by dropping the BKL
352 because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock semaphore which
353 provides safe locking. (Ingo Molnar)
354 - Fix a potential bug in fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() that
355 could occur in the future for when we start closing/freeing extent
356 inodes if we don't set base_ni->ext.extent_ntfs_inos to NULL after
357 we free it.
358 - Rename {find,lookup}_attr() to ntfs_attr_{find,lookup}() as well as
359 find_external_attr() to ntfs_external_attr_find() to cleanup the
360 namespace a bit and to be more consistent with libntfs.
361 - Rename {{re,}init,get,put}_attr_search_ctx() to
362 ntfs_attr_{{re,}init,get,put}_search_ctx() as well as the type
363 attr_search_context to ntfs_attr_search_ctx.
364 - Force use of ntfs_attr_find() in ntfs_attr_lookup() when searching
365 for the attribute list attribute itself.
366 - Fix endianness bug in ntfs_external_attr_find().
367 - Change ntfs_{external_,}attr_find() to return 0 on success, -ENOENT
368 if the attribute is not found, and -EIO on real error. In the case
369 of -ENOENT, the search context is updated to describe the attribute
370 before which the attribute being searched for would need to be
371 inserted if such an action were to be desired and in the case of
372 ntfs_external_attr_find() the search context is also updated to
373 indicate the attribute list entry before which the attribute list
374 entry of the attribute being searched for would need to be inserted
375 if such an action were to be desired. Also make ntfs_find_attr()
376 static and remove its prototype from attrib.h as it is not used
377 anywhere other than attrib.c. Update ntfs_attr_lookup() and all
378 callers of ntfs_{external,}attr_{find,lookup}() for the new return
379 values.
380 - Minor cleanup of fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_init_locked_inode().
381
3822.1.17 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths and other updates.
383
384 - Implement bitmap modification code (fs/ntfs/bitmap.[hc]). This
385 includes functions to set/clear a single bit or a run of bits.
386 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_find_vcn() which returns the locked
387 runlist element containing a particular vcn. It also takes care of
388 mapping any needed runlist fragments.
389 - Implement cluster (de-)allocation code (fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.[hc]).
390 - Load attribute definition table from $AttrDef at mount time.
391 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths involving (de)allocation of
392 the default and volume upcase tables.
393 - Remove ntfs_nr_mounts as it is no longer used.
394
3952.1.16 - Implement access time updates, file sync, async io, and read/writev.
396
397 - Add support for readv/writev and aio_read/aio_write (fs/ntfs/file.c).
398 This is done by setting the appropriate file operations pointers to
399 the generic helper functions provided by mm/filemap.c.
400 - Implement fsync, fdatasync, and msync both for files (fs/ntfs/file.c)
401 and directories (fs/ntfs/dir.c).
402 - Add support for {a,m,c}time updates to inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().
403 Note, except for the root directory and any other system files opened
404 by the user, the system files will not have their access times
405 updated as they are only accessed at the inode level an hence the
406 file level functions which cause the times to be updated are never
407 invoked.
408
4092.1.15 - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
410
411 - Add new element itype.index.collation_rule to the ntfs inode
412 structure and set it appropriately in ntfs_read_locked_inode().
413 - Implement a new inode type "index" to allow efficient access to the
414 indices found in various system files and adapt inode handling
415 accordingly (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]). An index inode is essentially an
416 attribute inode (NInoAttr() is true) with an attribute type of
417 AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION. As such, it is no longer allowed to call
418 ntfs_attr_iget() with an attribute type of AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION as
419 there would be no way to distinguish between normal attribute inodes
420 and index inodes. The function to obtain an index inode is
421 ntfs_index_iget() and it uses the helper function
422 ntfs_read_locked_index_inode(). Note, we do not overload
423 ntfs_attr_iget() as indices consist of multiple attributes so using
424 ntfs_attr_iget() to obtain an index inode would be confusing.
425 - Ensure that there is no overflow when doing page->index <<
426 PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT by casting page->index to s64 in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
427 - Use atomic kmap instead of kmap() in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page()
428 and ntfs_read_block().
429 - Use case sensitive attribute lookups instead of case insensitive ones.
430 - Lock all page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes while
431 accessing them to ensure we never see corrupt data while the page is
432 under writeout.
433 - Add framework for generic ntfs collation (fs/ntfs/collation.[hc]).
434 We have ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported() to check if the collation
435 rule you want to use is supported and ntfs_collation() which actually
436 collates two data items. We currently only support COLLATION_BINARY
437 and COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG but support for other collation rules will
438 be added as the need arises.
439 - Add a new type, ntfs_index_context, to allow retrieval of an index
440 entry using the corresponding index key. To get an index context,
441 use ntfs_index_ctx_get() and to release it, use ntfs_index_ctx_put().
442 This also adds a new slab cache for the index contexts. To lookup a
443 key in an index inode, use ntfs_index_lookup(). After modifying an
444 index entry, call ntfs_index_entry_flush_dcache_page() followed by
445 ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to ensure the changes are written out
446 to disk. For details see fs/ntfs/index.[hc]. Note, at present, if
447 an index entry is in the index allocation attribute rather than the
448 index root attribute it will not be written out (you will get a
449 warning message about discarded changes instead).
450 - Load the quota file ($Quota) and check if quota tracking is enabled
451 and if so, mark the quotas out of date. This causes windows to
452 rescan the volume on boot and update all quota entries.
453 - Add a set_page_dirty address space operation for ntfs_m[fs]t_aops.
454 It is simply set to __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() to make sure that
455 running set_page_dirty() on a page containing mft/ntfs records will
456 not affect the dirty state of the page buffers.
457 - Add fs/ntfs/index.c::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() which sets all
458 buffers that are inside the ntfs record in the page dirty after which
459 it sets the page dirty. This allows ->writepage to only write the
460 dirty index records rather than having to write all the records in
461 the page. Modify fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to
462 use this rather than __set_page_dirty_nobuffers().
463 - Implement fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() which enables the
464 writing of page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes
465 like the index allocation attribute in directory indices and other
466 indices like $Quota/$Q, etc. This means that the quota is now marked
467 out of date on all volumes rather than only on ones where the quota
468 defaults entry is in the index root attribute of the $Quota/$Q index.
469
4702.1.14 - Fix an NFSd caused deadlock reported by several users.
471
472 - Modify fs/ntfs/ntfs_readdir() to copy the index root attribute value
473 to a buffer so that we can put the search context and unmap the mft
474 record before calling the filldir() callback. We need to do this
475 because of NFSd which calls ->lookup() from its filldir callback()
476 and this causes NTFS to deadlock as ntfs_lookup() maps the mft record
477 of the directory and since ntfs_readdir() has got it mapped already
478 ntfs_lookup() deadlocks.
479
4802.1.13 - Enable overwriting of resident files and housekeeping of system files.
481
482 - Implement writing of mft records (fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]), which includes
483 keeping the mft mirror in sync with the mft when mirrored mft records
484 are written. The functions are write_mft_record{,_nolock}(). The
485 implementation is quite rudimentary for now with lots of things not
486 implemented yet but I am not sure any of them can actually occur so
487 I will wait for people to hit each one and only then implement it.
488 - Commit open system inodes at umount time. This should make it
489 virtually impossible for sync_mft_mirror_umount() to ever be needed.
490 - Implement ->write_inode (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode()) for the
491 ntfs super operations. This gives us inode writing via the VFS inode
492 dirty code paths. Note: Access time updates are not implemented yet.
493 - Implement fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::{,__}mark_mft_record_dirty() and make
494 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and ntfs_commit_write() use it, thus
495 finally enabling resident file overwrite! (-8 This also includes a
496 placeholder for ->writepage (ntfs_mft_writepage()), which for now
497 just redirties the page and returns. Also, at umount time, we for
498 now throw away all mft data page cache pages after the last call to
499 ntfs_commit_inode() in the hope that all inodes will have been
500 written out by then and hence no dirty (meta)data will be lost. We
501 also check for this case and emit an error message telling the user
502 to run chkdsk.
503 - Use set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback() in the resident
504 attribute code path of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() otherwise
505 the radix-tree tag PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the
506 page is clean.
507 - Implement ntfs_mft_writepage() so it now checks if any of the mft
508 records in the page are dirty and if so redirties the page and
509 returns. Otherwise it just returns (after doing set_page_writeback(),
510 unlock_page(), end_page_writeback() or the radix-tree tag
511 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the page is clean), thus
512 alowing the VM to do with the page as it pleases. Also, at umount
513 time, now only throw away dirty mft (meta)data pages if dirty inodes
514 are present and ask the user to email us if they see this happening.
515 - Add functions ntfs_{clear,set}_volume_flags(), to modify the volume
516 information flags (fs/ntfs/super.c).
517 - Mark the volume dirty when (re)mounting read-write and mark it clean
518 when unmounting or remounting read-only. If any volume errors are
519 found, the volume is left marked dirty to force chkdsk to run.
520 - Add code to set the NT4 compatibility flag when (re)mounting
521 read-write for newer NTFS versions but leave it commented out for now
522 since we do not make any modifications that are NTFS 1.2 specific yet
523 and since setting this flag breaks Captive-NTFS which is not nice.
524 This code must be enabled once we start writing NTFS 1.2 specific
525 changes otherwise Windows NTFS driver might crash / cause corruption.
526
5272.1.12 - Fix the second fix to the decompression engine and some cleanups.
528
529 - Add a new address space operations struct, ntfs_mst_aops, for mst
530 protected attributes. This is because the default ntfs_aops do not
531 make sense with mst protected data and were they to write anything to
532 such an attribute they would cause data corruption so we provide
533 ntfs_mst_aops which does not have any write related operations set.
534 - Cleanup dirty ntfs inode handling (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]) which also
535 includes an adapted ntfs_commit_inode() and an implementation of
536 ntfs_write_inode() which for now just cleans dirty inodes without
537 writing them (it does emit a warning that this is happening).
538 - Undo the second decompression engine fix (see 2.1.9 release ChangeLog
539 entry) as it was only fixing a theoretical bug but at the same time
540 it badly broke the handling of sparse and uncompressed compression
541 blocks.
542
5432.1.11 - Driver internal cleanups.
544
545 - Only build logfile.o if building the driver with read-write support.
546 - Really final white space cleanups.
547 - Use generic_ffs() instead of ffs() in logfile.c which allows the
548 log_page_size variable to be optimized by gcc into a constant.
549 - Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere as uchar_t is unsigned 1-byte
550 char as defined by POSIX and as found on some systems.
551
5522.1.10 - Force read-only (re)mounting of volumes with unsupported volume flags.
553
554 - Finish off the white space cleanups (remove trailing spaces, etc).
555 - Clean up ntfs_fill_super() and ntfs_read_inode_mount() by removing
556 the kludges around the first iget(). Instead of (re)setting ->s_op
557 we have the $MFT inode set up by explicit new_inode() / set ->i_ino /
558 insert_inode_hash() / call ntfs_read_inode_mount() directly. This
559 kills the need for second super_operations and allows to return error
560 from ntfs_read_inode_mount() without resorting to ugly "poisoning"
561 tricks. (Al Viro)
562 - Force read-only (re)mounting if any of the following bits are set in
563 the volume information flags:
564 VOLUME_IS_DIRTY, VOLUME_RESIZE_LOG_FILE,
565 VOLUME_UPGRADE_ON_MOUNT, VOLUME_DELETE_USN_UNDERWAY,
566 VOLUME_REPAIR_OBJECT_ID, VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK
567 To make this easier we define VOLUME_MUST_MOUNT_RO_MASK with all the
568 above bits set so the test is made easy.
569
5702.1.9 - Fix two bugs in decompression engine.
571
572 - Fix a bug where we would not always detect that we have reached the
573 end of a compression block because we were ending at minus one byte
574 which is effectively the same as being at the end. The fix is to
575 check whether the uncompressed buffer has been fully filled and if so
576 we assume we have reached the end of the compression block. A big
577 thank you to Marcin Gibuła for the bug report, the assistance in
578 tracking down the bug and testing the fix.
579 - Fix a possible bug where when a compressed read is truncated to the
580 end of the file, the offset inside the last page was not truncated.
581
5822.1.8 - Handle $MFT mirror and $LogFile, improve time handling, and cleanups.
583
584 - Use get_bh() instead of manual atomic_inc() in fs/ntfs/compress.c.
585 - Modify fs/ntfs/time.c::ntfs2utc(), get_current_ntfs_time(), and
586 utc2ntfs() to work with struct timespec instead of time_t on the
587 Linux UTC time side thus preserving the full precision of the NTFS
588 time and only loosing up to 99 nano-seconds in the Linux UTC time.
589 - Move fs/ntfs/time.c to fs/ntfs/time.h and make the time functions
590 static inline.
591 - Remove unused ntfs_dirty_inode().
592 - Cleanup super operations declaration in fs/ntfs/super.c.
593 - Wrap flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in #ifdef NTFS_RW.
594 - Add NInoTestSetFoo() and NInoTestClearFoo() macro magic to
595 fs/ntfs/inode.h and use it to declare NInoTest{Set,Clear}Dirty.
596 - Move typedefs for ntfs_attr and test_t from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
597 fs/ntfs/inode.h so they can be used elsewhere.
598 - Determine the mft mirror size as the number of mirrored mft records
599 and store it in ntfs_volume->mftmirr_size (fs/ntfs/super.c).
600 - Load the mft mirror at mount time and compare the mft records stored
601 in it to the ones in the mft. Force a read-only mount if the two do
602 not match (fs/ntfs/super.c).
603 - Fix type casting related warnings on 64-bit architectures. Thanks
604 to Meelis Roos for reporting them.
605 - Move %L to %ll as %L is floating point and %ll is integer which is
606 what we want.
607 - Read the journal ($LogFile) and determine if the volume has been
608 shutdown cleanly and force a read-only mount if not (fs/ntfs/super.c
609 and fs/ntfs/logfile.c). This is a little bit of a crude check in
610 that we only look at the restart areas and not at the actual log
611 records so that there will be a very small number of cases where we
612 think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean. This should
613 only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly and did not
614 have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o.
615 - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a read-write (re)mount
616 is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it with 0xff bytes to
617 ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale
618 journal after Linux has written to the volume.
619
6202.1.7 - Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes.
621
622 - Set i_generation in the VFS inode from the seq_no of the NTFS inode.
623 - Make ntfs_lookup() NFS export safe, i.e. use d_splice_alias(), etc.
624 - Implement ->get_dentry() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_dentry() as the
625 default doesn't allow inode number 0 which is a valid inode on NTFS
626 and even if it did allow that it uses iget() instead of ntfs_iget()
627 which makes it useless for us.
628 - Implement ->get_parent() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_parent() as the
629 default just returns -EACCES which is not very useful.
630 - Define export operations (->s_export_op) for NTFS (ntfs_export_ops)
631 and set them up in the super block at mount time (super.c) this
632 allows mounted NTFS volumes to be exported via NFS.
633 - Add missing return -EOPNOTSUPP; in
634 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write().
635 - Enforce no atime and no dir atime updates at mount/remount time as
636 they are not implemented yet anyway.
637 - Move a few assignments in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::load_attribute_list() to
638 after a NULL check. Thanks to Dave Jones for pointing this out.
639
6402.1.6 - Fix minor bug in handling of compressed directories.
641
642 - Fix bug in handling of compressed directories. A compressed
643 directory is not really compressed so when we set the ->i_blocks
644 field of a compressed directory inode we were setting it from the
645 non-existing field ni->itype.compressed.size which gave random
646 results... For directories we now always use ni->allocated_size.
647
6482.1.5 - Fix minor bug in attribute list attribute handling.
649
650 - Fix bug in attribute list handling. Actually it is not as much a bug
651 as too much protection in that we were not allowing attribute lists
652 which waste space on disk while Windows XP clearly allows it and in
653 fact creates such attribute lists so our driver was failing.
654 - Update NTFS documentation ready for 2.6 kernel release.
655
6562.1.4 - Reduce compiler requirements.
657
658 - Remove all uses of unnamed structs and unions in the driver to make
659 old and newer gcc versions happy. Makes it a bit uglier IMO but at
660 least people will stop hassling me about it.
661
6622.1.3 - Important bug fixes in corner cases.
663
664 - super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Correct the check for 64-bit
665 clusters. (Philipp Thomas)
666 - attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a
667 multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs
668 Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>)
669
6702.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs.
671
672 - Fix buggy free cluster and free inode determination logic.
673
6742.1.1 - Minor updates.
675
676 - Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files.
677 - Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in
678 fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.ord>)
679 - Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc.
680 - Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write()
681 around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write. Adapt NTFS appropriately
682 in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() by using
683 kmap_atomic(KM_USER0).
684
6852.1.0 - First steps towards write support: implement file overwrite.
686
687 - Add configuration option for developmental write support with an
688 appropriately scary configuration help text.
689 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its
690 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block(). This enables mmap(2) based
691 overwriting of existing files on ntfs. Note: Resident files are
692 only written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so
693 avoid writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
694 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_write(), its
695 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() and their
696 counterparts, fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_write(), and
697 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write(), respectively. Also,
698 add generic_file_write() to the ntfs file operations (fs/ntfs/file.c).
699 This enables write(2) based overwriting of existing files on ntfs.
700 Note: As with mmap(2) based overwriting, resident files are only
701 written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so avoid
702 writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
703 - Implement ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) and
704 ->setattr() (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) inode operations for
705 files with the purpose of intercepting and aborting all i_size
706 changes which we do not support yet. ntfs_truncate() actually only
707 emits a warning message but AFAICS our interception of i_size changes
708 elsewhere means ntfs_truncate() never gets called for i_size changes.
709 It is only called from generic_file_write() when we fail in
710 ntfs_prepare_{,nonresident_}write() in order to discard any
711 instantiated buffers beyond i_size. Thus i_size is not actually
712 changed so our warning message is enough. Unfortunately it is not
713 possible to easily determine if i_size is being changed or not hence
714 we just emit an appropriately worded error message.
715
7162.0.25 - Small bug fixes and cleanups.
717
718 - Unlock the page in an out of memory error code path in
719 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
720 - If fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page() is called on an uptodate page,
721 just unlock the page and return. (This can happen due to ->writepage
722 clearing PageUptodate() during write out of MstProtected()
723 attributes.
724 - Remove leaked write code again.
725
7262.0.24 - Cleanups.
727
728 - Treat BUG_ON() as ASSERT() not VERIFY(), i.e. do not use side effects
729 inside BUG_ON(). (Adam J. Richter)
730 - Split logical OR expressions inside BUG_ON() into individual BUG_ON()
731 calls for improved debugging. (Adam J. Richter)
732 - Add errors flag to the ntfs volume state, accessed via
733 NVol{,Set,Clear}Errors(vol).
734 - Do not allow read-write remounts of read-only volumes with errors.
735 - Clarify comment for ntfs file operation sendfile which was added by
736 Christoph Hellwig a while ago (just using generic_file_sendfile())
737 to say that ntfs ->sendfile is only used for the case where the
738 source data is on the ntfs partition and the destination is
739 somewhere else, i.e. nothing we need to concern ourselves with.
740 - Add generic_file_write() as our ntfs file write operation.
741
7422.0.23 - Major bug fixes (races, deadlocks, non-i386 architectures).
743
744 - Massive internal locking changes to mft record locking. Fixes lock
745 recursion and replaces the mrec_lock read/write semaphore with a
746 mutex. Also removes the now superfluous mft_count. This fixes several
747 race conditions and deadlocks, especially in the future write code.
748 - Fix ntfs over loopback for compressed files by adding an
749 optimization barrier. (gcc was screwing up otherwise ?)
750 - Miscellaneous cleanups all over the code and a fix or two in error
751 handling code paths.
752 Thanks go to Christoph Hellwig for pointing out the following two:
753 - Remove now unused function fs/ntfs/malloc.h::vmalloc_nofs().
754 - Fix ntfs_free() for ia64 and parisc by checking for VMALLOC_END, too.
755
7562.0.22 - Cleanups, mainly to ntfs_readdir(), and use C99 initializers.
757
758 - Change fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_reddir() to only read/write ->f_pos once
759 at entry/exit respectively.
760 - Use C99 initializers for structures.
761 - Remove unused variable blocks from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
762
7632.0.21 - Check for, and refuse to work with too large files/directories/volumes.
764
765 - Limit volume size at mount time to 2TiB on architectures where
766 unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector()).
767 This is the most we can do without overflowing the 32-bit limit of
768 the block device size imposed on us by sb_bread() and sb_getblk()
769 for the time being.
770 - Limit file/directory size at open() time to 16TiB on architectures
771 where unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open() and
772 fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_dir_open()). This is the most we can do without
773 overflowing the page cache page index.
774
7752.0.20 - Support non-resident directory index bitmaps, fix page leak in readdir.
776
777 - Move the directory index bitmap to use an attribute inode instead of
778 having special fields for it inside the ntfs inode structure. This
779 means that the index bitmaps now use the page cache for i/o, too,
780 and also as a side effect we get support for non-resident index
781 bitmaps for free.
782 - Simplify/cleanup error handling in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() and
783 fix a page leak that manifested itself in some cases.
784 - Add fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(), which we need to release the
785 index bitmap inode on the final iput().
786
7872.0.19 - Fix race condition, improvements, and optimizations in i/o interface.
788
789 - Apply block optimization added to fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block()
790 to fs/ntfs/compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() as well.
791 - Drop the "file" from ntfs_file_read_compressed_block().
792 - Rename fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_enb_buffer_read_async() to
793 ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() (more like the fs/buffer.c counterpart).
794 - Update ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() with the improved logic from
795 its updated counterpart fs/buffer.c::end_buffer_async_read(). Apply
796 further logic improvements to better determine when we set PageError.
797 - Update submission of buffers in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
798 check for the buffers being uptodate first in line with the updated
799 fs/buffer.c::block_read_full_page(). This plugs a small race
800 condition.
801
8022.0.18 - Fix race condition in reading of compressed files.
803
804 - There was a narrow window between checking a buffer head for being
805 uptodate and locking it in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block(). We now
806 lock the buffer and then check whether it is uptodate or not.
807
8082.0.17 - Cleanups and optimizations - shrinking the ToDo list.
809
810 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to return an error
811 code and update callers, i.e. ntfs_iget(), to pass that error code
812 up instead of just using -EIO.
813 - Modifications to super.c to ensure that both mount and remount
814 cannot set any write related options when the driver is compiled
815 read-only.
816 - Optimize block resolution in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
817 cache the current runlist element. This should improve performance
818 when reading very large and/or very fragmented data.
819
8202.0.16 - Convert access to $MFT/$BITMAP to attribute inode API.
821
822 - Fix a stupid bug introduced in 2.0.15 where we were unmapping the
823 wrong inode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_attr_iget().
824 - Fix debugging check in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
825 - Convert $MFT/$BITMAP access to attribute inode API and remove all
826 remnants of the ugly mftbmp address space and operations hack. This
827 means we finally have only one readpage function as well as only one
828 async io completion handler. Yey! The mft bitmap is now just an
829 attribute inode and is accessed from vol->mftbmp_ino just as if it
830 were a normal file. Fake inodes rule. (-:
831
8322.0.15 - Fake inodes based attribute i/o via the pagecache, fixes and cleanups.
833
834 - Fix silly bug in fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_options() which was causing
835 remounts to fail when the partition had an entry in /etc/fstab and
836 the entry specified the nls= option.
837 - Apply same macro magic used in fs/ntfs/inode.h to fs/ntfs/volume.h to
838 expand all the helper functions NVolFoo(), NVolSetFoo(), and
839 NVolClearFoo().
840 - Move copyright statement from driver initialisation message to
841 module description (fs/super.c). This makes the initialisation
842 message fit on one line and fits in better with rest of kernel.
843 - Update fs/ntfs/attrib.c::map_run_list() to work on both real and
844 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
845 - Implement fake attribute inodes allowing all attribute i/o to go via
846 the page cache and to use all the normal vfs/mm functionality:
847 - Add ntfs_attr_iget() and its helper ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode()
848 to fs/ntfs/inode.c.
849 - Add needed cleanup code to ntfs_clear_big_inode().
850 - Merge address space operations for files and directories (aops.c),
851 now just have ntfs_aops:
852 - Rename:
853 end_buffer_read_attr_async() -> ntfs_end_buffer_read_async(),
854 ntfs_attr_read_block() -> ntfs_read_block(),
855 ntfs_file_read_page() -> ntfs_readpage().
856 - Rewrite fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_readpage() to work on both real and
857 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
858 - Remove obsolete fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage().
859
8602.0.14 - Run list merging code cleanup, minor locking changes, typo fixes.
861
862 - Change fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() to not rely on BKL by moving
863 the locking out of super.c::get_nr_free_mft_records() and taking and
864 dropping the mftbmp_lock rw_semaphore in ntfs_statfs() itself.
865 - Bring attribute runlist merging code (fs/ntfs/attrib.c) in sync with
866 current userspace ntfs library code. This means that if a merge
867 fails the original runlists are always left unmodified instead of
868 being silently corrupted.
869 - Misc typo fixes.
870
8712.0.13 - Use iget5_locked() in preparation for fake inodes and small cleanups.
872
873 - Remove nr_mft_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_mft_records
874 from ntfs_volume structure.
875 - Remove nr_lcn_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_clusters
876 from ntfs_volume structure.
877 - Use iget5_locked() and friends instead of conventional iget(). Wrap
878 the call in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_iget() and update callers of iget()
879 to use ntfs_iget(). Leave only one iget() call at mount time so we
880 don't need an ntfs_iget_mount().
881 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_new_extent_inode() to take mft_no as an
882 additional argument.
883
8842.0.12 - Initial cleanup of address space operations following 2.0.11 changes.
885
886 - Merge fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_mst_async() and
887 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_file_async() into one function
888 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_attr_async() using NInoMstProtected()
889 to determine whether to apply mst fixups or not.
890 - Above change allows merging fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_file_read_block()
891 and fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() into one function
892 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_attr_read_block(). Also, create a tiny wrapper
893 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() to transform the parameters from
894 the VFS readpage function prototype to the ntfs_attr_read_block()
895 function prototype.
896
8972.0.11 - Initial preparations for fake inode based attribute i/o.
898
899 - Move definition of ntfs_inode_state_bits to fs/ntfs/inode.h and
900 do some macro magic (adapted from include/linux/buffer_head.h) to
901 expand all the helper functions NInoFoo(), NInoSetFoo(), and
902 NInoClearFoo().
903 - Add new flag to ntfs_inode_state_bits: NI_Sparse.
904 - Add new fields to ntfs_inode structure to allow use of fake inodes
905 for attribute i/o: type, name, name_len. Also add new state bits:
906 NI_Attr, which, if set, indicates the inode is a fake inode, and
907 NI_MstProtected, which, if set, indicates the attribute uses multi
908 sector transfer protection, i.e. fixups need to be applied after
909 reads and before/after writes.
910 - Rename fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_inode() to
911 ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_extent_inode() and update callers.
912 - Use ntfs_clear_extent_inode() in fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_clear_inode()
913 instead of ntfs_destroy_extent_inode().
914 - Cleanup memory deallocations in {__,}ntfs_clear_{,big_}inode().
915 - Make all operations on ntfs inode state bits use the NIno* functions.
916 - Set up the new ntfs inode fields and state bits in
917 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_inode() and add appropriate cleanup of
918 allocated memory to __ntfs_clear_inode().
919 - Cleanup ntfs_inode structure a bit for better ordering of elements
920 w.r.t. their size to allow better packing of the structure in memory.
921
9222.0.10 - There can only be 2^32 - 1 inodes on an NTFS volume.
923
924 - Add check at mount time to verify that the number of inodes on the
925 volume does not exceed 2^32 - 1, which is the maximum allowed for
926 NTFS according to Microsoft.
927 - Change mft_no member of ntfs_inode structure to be unsigned long.
928 Update all users. This makes ntfs_inode->mft_no just a copy of struct
929 inode->i_ino. But we can't just always use struct inode->i_ino and
930 remove mft_no because extent inodes do not have an attached struct
931 inode.
932
9332.0.9 - Decompression engine now uses a single buffer and other cleanups.
934
935 - Change decompression engine to use a single buffer protected by a
936 spin lock instead of per-CPU buffers. (Rusty Russell)
937 - Do not update cb_pos when handling a partial final page during
938 decompression of a sparse compression block, as the value is later
939 reset without being read/used. (Rusty Russell)
940 - Switch to using the new KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ for atomic kmap()s. (Andrew
941 Morton)
942 - Change buffer size in ntfs_readdir()/ntfs_filldir() to use
943 NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE which makes the buffers almost 1kiB each but
944 it also makes everything safer so it is a good thing.
945 - Miscellaneous minor cleanups to comments.
946
9472.0.8 - Major updates for handling of case sensitivity and dcache aliasing.
948
949 Big thanks go to Al Viro and other inhabitants of #kernel for investing
950 their time to discuss the case sensitivity and dcache aliasing issues.
951
952 - Remove unused source file fs/ntfs/attraops.c.
953 - Remove show_inodes mount option(s), thus dropping support for
954 displaying of short file names.
955 - Remove deprecated mount option posix.
956 - Restore show_sys_files mount option.
957 - Add new mount option case_sensitive, to determine if the driver
958 treats file names as case sensitive or not. If case sensitive, create
959 file names in the POSIX namespace. Otherwise create file names in the
960 LONG/WIN32 namespace. Note, files remain accessible via their short
961 file name, if it exists.
962 - Remove really dumb logic bug in boot sector recovery code.
963 - Fix dcache aliasing issues wrt short/long file names via changes
964 to fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() and
965 fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup():
966 - Add additional argument to ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() in which we
967 return information about the matching file name if the case is not
968 matching or the match is a short file name. See comments above the
969 function definition for details.
970 - Change ntfs_lookup() to only create dcache entries for the correctly
971 cased file name and only for the WIN32 namespace counterpart of DOS
972 namespace file names. This ensures we have only one dentry per
973 directory and also removes all dcache aliasing issues between short
974 and long file names once we add write support. See comments above
975 function for details.
976 - Fix potential 1 byte overflow in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_ucstonls().
977
9782.0.7 - Minor cleanups and updates for changes in core kernel code.
979
980 - Remove much of the NULL struct element initializers.
981 - Various updates to make compatible with recent kernels.
982 - Remove defines of MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE and include linux/buffer_head.h
983 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h instead.
984 - Remove no longer needed KERNEL_VERSION checks. We are now in the
985 kernel proper so they are no longer needed.
986
9872.0.6 - Major bugfix to make compatible with other kernel changes.
988
989 - Initialize the mftbmp address space properly now that there are more
990 fields in the struct address_space. This was leading to hangs and
991 oopses on umount since 2.5.12 because of changes to other parts of
992 the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space()
993 function...
994 - Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The
995 only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_sem during
996 the call, and i_sem is sufficient protection against changes in the
997 directory inode (including ->i_size).
998 - Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to
999 default_llseek()) as this downs i_sem instead of the BKL which is
1000 what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we
1001 no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir().
1002
10032.0.5 - Major bugfix. Buffer overflow in extent inode handling.
1004
1005 - No need to set old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as the
1006 VFS does so via invocation of deactivate_super() calling
1007 fs->fill_super() calling block_kill_super() which does it.
1008 - BKL moved from VFS into dir.c::ntfs_readdir(). (Linus Torvalds)
1009 -> Do we really need it? I don't think so as we have exclusion on
1010 the directory ntfs_inode rw_semaphore mrec_lock. We mmight have to
1011 move the ->f_pos accesses under the mrec_lock though. Check this...
1012 - Fix really, really, really stupid buffer overflow in extent inode
1013 handling in mft.c::map_extent_mft_record().
1014
10152.0.4 - Cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.11.
1016
1017 - Add documentation on how to use the MD driver to be able to use NTFS
1018 stripe and volume sets in Linux and generally cleanup documentation
1019 a bit.
1020 Remove all uses of kdev_t in favour of struct block_device *:
1021 - Change compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() to use
1022 sb_getblk() instead of getblk().
1023 - Change super.c::ntfs_fill_super() to use bdev_hardsect_size() instead
1024 of get_hardsect_size().
1025 - No need to get old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as
1026 fs/super.c::get_sb_bdev() already does this.
1027 - Set bh->b_bdev instead of bh->b_dev throughout aops.c.
1028
10292.0.3 - Small bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements.
1030
1031 - Remove some dead code from mft.c.
1032 - Optimize readpage and read_block functions throughout aops.c so that
1033 only initialized blocks are read. Non-initialized ones have their
1034 buffer head mapped, zeroed, and set up to date, without scheduling
1035 any i/o. Thanks to Al Viro for advice on how to avoid the device i/o.
1036 Thanks go to Andrew Morton for spotting the below:
1037 - Fix buglet in allocate_compression_buffers() error code path.
1038 - Call flush_dcache_page() after modifying page cache page contents in
1039 ntfs_file_readpage().
1040 - Check for existence of page buffers throughout aops.c before calling
1041 create_empty_buffers(). This happens when an I/O error occurs and the
1042 read is retried. (It also happens once writing is implemented so that
1043 needed doing anyway but I had left it for later...)
1044 - Don't BUG_ON() uptodate and/or mapped buffers throughout aops.c in
1045 readpage and read_block functions. Reasoning same as above (i.e. I/O
1046 error retries and future write code paths.)
1047
10482.0.2 - Minor updates and cleanups.
1049
1050 - Cleanup: rename mst.c::__post_read_mst_fixup to post_write_mst_fixup
1051 and cleanup the code a bit, removing the unused size parameter.
1052 - Change default fmask to 0177 and update documentation.
1053 - Change attrib.c::get_attr_search_ctx() to return the search context
1054 directly instead of taking the address of a pointer. A return value
1055 of NULL means the allocation failed. Updated all callers
1056 appropriately.
1057 - Update to 2.5.9 kernel (preserving backwards compatibility) by
1058 replacing all occurences of page->buffers with page_buffers(page).
1059 - Fix minor bugs in runlist merging, also minor cleanup.
1060 - Updates to bootsector layout and mft mirror contents descriptions.
1061 - Small bug fix in error detection in unistr.c and some cleanups.
1062 - Grow name buffer allocations in unistr.c in aligned mutlipled of 64
1063 bytes.
1064
10652.0.1 - Minor updates.
1066
1067 - Make default umask correspond to documentation.
1068 - Improve documentation.
1069 - Set default mode to include execute bit. The {u,f,d}mask can be used
1070 to take it away if desired. This allows binaries to be executed from
1071 a mounted ntfs partition.
1072
10732.0.0 - New version number. Remove TNG from the name. Now in the kernel.
1074
1075 - Add kill_super, just keeping up with the vfs changes in the kernel.
1076 - Repeat some changes from tng-0.0.8 that somehow got lost on the way
1077 from the CVS import into BitKeeper.
1078 - Begin to implement proper handling of allocated_size vs
1079 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size). Done are
1080 mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage(), aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async(),
1081 and attrib.c::load_attribute_list().
1082 - Lock the runlist in attrib.c::load_attribute_list() while using it.
1083 - Fix memory leak in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() and generally
1084 clean up compress.c a little, removing some uncommented/unused debug
1085 code.
1086 - Tidy up dir.c a little bit.
1087 - Don't bother getting the runlist in inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1088 - Merge mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage() and aops.c::ntfs_index_readpage()
1089 creating aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage(), improving the handling of
1090 holes and overflow in the process and implementing the correct
1091 equivalent of ntfs_file_get_block() in ntfs_mst_readpage() itself.
1092 I am aiming for correctness at the moment. Modularisation can come
1093 later.
1094 - Rename aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async() to
1095 end_buffer_read_mst_async() and optimize the overflow checking and
1096 handling.
1097 - Use the host of the mftbmp address space mapping to hold the ntfs
1098 volume. This is needed so the async i/o completion handler can
1099 retrieve a pointer to the volume. Hopefully this will not cause
1100 problems elsewhere in the kernel... Otherwise will need to use a
1101 fake inode.
1102 - Complete implementation of proper handling of allocated_size vs
1103 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size) in whole driver.
1104 Basically aops.c is now completely rewritten.
1105 - Change NTFS driver name to just NTFS and set version number to 2.0.0
1106 to make a clear distinction from the old driver which is still on
1107 version 1.1.22.
1108
1109tng-0.0.8 - 08/03/2002 - Now using BitKeeper, http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/
1110
1111 - Replace bdevname(sb->s_dev) with sb->s_id.
1112 - Remove now superfluous new-line characters in all callers of
1113 ntfs_debug().
1114 - Apply kludge in ntfs_read_inode(), setting i_nlink to 1 for
1115 directories. Without this the "find" utility gets very upset which is
1116 fair enough as Linux/Unix do not support directory hard links.
1117 - Further runlist merging work. (Richard Russon)
1118 - Backwards compatibility for gcc-2.95. (Richard Russon)
1119 - Update to kernel 2.5.5-pre1 and rediff the now tiny patch.
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001120 - Convert to new filesystem declaration using ->ntfs_get_sb() and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001121 replacing ntfs_read_super() with ntfs_fill_super().
1122 - Set s_maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to avoid page cache page index
1123 overflow on 32-bit architectures.
1124 - Cleanup upcase loading code to use ntfs_(un)map_page().
1125 - Disable/reenable preemtion in critical sections of compession engine.
1126 - Replace device size determination in ntfs_fill_super() with
1127 sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_size (in bytes) and remove now superfluous
1128 function super.c::get_nr_blocks().
1129 - Implement a mount time option (show_inodes) allowing choice of which
1130 types of inode names readdir() returns and modify ntfs_filldir()
1131 accordingly. There are several parameters to show_inodes:
1132 system: system files
1133 win32: long file names (including POSIX file names) [DEFAULT]
1134 long: same as win32
1135 dos: short file names only (excluding POSIX file names)
1136 short: same as dos
1137 posix: same as both win32 and dos
1138 all: all file names
1139 Note that the options are additive, i.e. specifying:
1140 -o show_inodes=system,show_inodes=win32,show_inodes=dos
1141 is the same as specifying:
1142 -o show_inodes=all
1143 Note that the "posix" and "all" options will show all directory
1144 names, BUT the link count on each directory inode entry is set to 1,
1145 due to Linux not supporting directory hard links. This may well
1146 confuse some userspace applications, since the directory names will
1147 have the same inode numbers. Thus it is NOT advisable to use the
1148 "posix" or "all" options. We provide them only for completeness sake.
1149 - Add copies of allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size to
1150 the ntfs inode structure and set them up in
1151 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). These reflect the unnamed data attribute
1152 for files and the index allocation attribute for directories.
1153 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs inode for
1154 $BITMAP attribute of large directories and set them up in
1155 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1156 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs volume for
1157 $BITMAP attribute of $MFT and set them up in
1158 super.c::load_system_files().
1159 - Parse deprecated ntfs driver options (iocharset, show_sys_files,
1160 posix, and utf8) and tell user what the new options to use are. Note
1161 we still do support them but they will be removed with kernel 2.7.x.
1162 - Change all occurences of integer long long printf formatting to hex
1163 as printk() will not support long long integer format if/when the
1164 div64 patch goes into the kernel.
1165 - Make slab caches have stable names and change the names to what they
1166 were intended to be. These changes are required/made possible by the
1167 new slab cache name handling which removes the length limitation by
1168 requiring the caller of kmem_cache_create() to supply a stable name
1169 which is then referenced but not copied.
1170 - Rename run_list structure to run_list_element and create a new
1171 run_list structure containing a pointer to a run_list_element
1172 structure and a read/write semaphore. Adapt all users of runlists
1173 to new scheme and take and release the lock as needed. This fixes a
1174 nasty race as the run_list changes even when inodes are locked for
1175 reading and even when the inode isn't locked at all, so we really
1176 needed the serialization. We use a semaphore rather than a spinlock
1177 as memory allocations can sleep and doing everything GFP_ATOMIC
1178 would be silly.
1179 - Cleanup read_inode() removing all code checking for lowest_vcn != 0.
1180 This can never happen due to the nature of lookup_attr() and how we
1181 support attribute lists. If it did happen it would imply the inode
1182 being corrupt.
1183 - Check for lowest_vcn != 0 in ntfs_read_inode() and mark the inode as
1184 bad if found.
1185 - Update to 2.5.6-pre2 changes in struct address_space.
1186 - Use parent_ino() when accessing d_parent inode number in dir.c.
1187 - Import Sourceforge CVS repository into BitKeeper repository:
1188 http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-tng-2.5
1189 - Update fs/Makefile, fs/Config.help, fs/Config.in, and
1190 Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for NTFS TNG.
1191 - Create kernel configuration option controlling whether debugging
1192 is enabled or not.
1193 - Add the required export of end_buffer_io_sync() from the patches
1194 directory to the kernel code.
1195 - Update inode.c::ntfs_show_options() with show_inodes mount option.
1196 - Update errors mount option.
1197
1198tng-0.0.7 - 13/02/2002 - The driver is now feature complete for read-only!
1199
1200 - Cleanup mft.c and it's debug/error output in particular. Fix a minor
1201 bug in mapping of extent inodes. Update all the comments to fit all
1202 the recent code changes.
1203 - Modify vcn_to_lcn() to cope with entirely unmapped runlists.
1204 - Cleanups in compress.c, mostly comments and folding help.
1205 - Implement attrib.c::map_run_list() as a generic helper.
1206 - Make compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() use map_run_list()
1207 thus making code shorter and enabling attribute list support.
1208 - Cleanup incorrect use of [su]64 with %L printf format specifier in
1209 all source files. Type casts to [unsigned] long long added to correct
1210 the mismatches (important for architectures which have long long not
1211 being 64 bits).
1212 - Merge async io completion handlers for directory indexes and $MFT
1213 data into one by setting the index_block_size{_bits} of the ntfs
1214 inode for $MFT to the mft_record_size{_bits} of the ntfs_volume.
1215 - Cleanup aops.c, update comments.
1216 - Make ntfs_file_get_block() use map_run_list() so all files now
1217 support attribute lists.
1218 - Make ntfs_dir_readpage() almost verbatim copy of
1219 block_read_full_page() by using ntfs_file_get_block() with only real
1220 difference being the use of our own async io completion handler
1221 rather than the default one, thus reducing the amount of code and
1222 automatically enabling attribute list support for directory indices.
1223 - Fix bug in load_attribute_list() - forgot to call brelse in error
1224 code path.
1225 - Change parameters to find_attr() and lookup_attr(). We no longer
1226 pass in the upcase table and its length. These can be gotten from
1227 ctx->ntfs_ino->vol->upcase{_len}. Update all callers.
1228 - Cleanups in attrib.c.
1229 - Implement merging of runlists, attrib.c::merge_run_lists() and its
1230 helpers. (Richard Russon)
1231 - Attribute lists part 2, attribute extents and multi part runlists:
1232 enable proper support for LCN_RL_NOT_MAPPED and automatic mapping of
1233 further runlist parts via attrib.c::map_run_list().
1234 - Tiny endianness bug fix in decompress_mapping_pairs().
1235
1236tng-0.0.6 - Encrypted directories, bug fixes, cleanups, debugging enhancements.
1237
1238 - Enable encrypted directories. (Their index root is marked encrypted
1239 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1240 encrypted.)
1241 - Fix bug in NInoBmpNonResident() macro. (Cut and paste error.)
1242 - Enable $Extend system directory. Most (if not all) extended system
1243 files do not have unnamed data attributes so ntfs_read_inode() had to
1244 special case them but that is ok, as the special casing recovery
1245 happens inside an error code path so there is zero slow down in the
1246 normal fast path. The special casing is done by introducing a new
1247 function inode.c::ntfs_is_extended_system_file() which checks if any
1248 of the hard links in the inode point to $Extend as being their parent
1249 directory and if they do we assume this is an extended system file.
1250 - Create a sysctl/proc interface to allow {dis,en}abling of debug output
1251 when compiled with -DDEBUG. Default is debug messages to be disabled.
1252 To enable them, one writes a non-zero value to /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
1253 (if /proc is enabled) or uses sysctl(2) to effect the same (if sysctl
1254 interface is enabled). Inspired by old ntfs driver.
1255 - Add debug_msgs insmod/kernel boot parameter to set whether debug
1256 messages are {dis,en}abled. This is useful to enable debug messages
1257 during ntfs initialization and is the only way to activate debugging
1258 when the sysctl interface is not enabled.
1259 - Cleanup debug output in various places.
1260 - Remove all dollar signs ($) from the source (except comments) to
1261 enable compilation on architectures whose gcc compiler does not
1262 support dollar signs in the names of variables/constants. Attribute
1263 types now start with AT_ instead of $ and $I30 is now just I30.
1264 - Cleanup ntfs_lookup() and add consistency check of sequence numbers.
1265 - Load complete runlist for $MFT/$BITMAP during mount and cleanup
1266 access functions. This means we now cope with $MFT/$BITMAP being
1267 spread accross several mft records.
1268 - Disable modification of mft_zone_multiplier on remount. We can always
1269 reenable this later on if we really want to, but we will need to make
1270 sure we readjust the mft_zone size / layout accordingly.
1271
1272tng-0.0.5 - Modernize for 2.5.x and further in line-ing with Al Viro's comments.
1273
1274 - Use sb_set_blocksize() instead of set_blocksize() and verify the
1275 return value.
1276 - Use sb_bread() instead of bread() throughout.
1277 - Add index_vcn_size{_bits} to ntfs_inode structure to store the size
1278 of a directory index block vcn. Apply resulting simplifications in
1279 dir.c everywhere.
1280 - Fix a small bug somewhere (but forgot what it was).
1281 - Change ntfs_{debug,error,warning} to enable gcc to do type checking
1282 on the printf-format parameter list and fix bugs reported by gcc
1283 as a result. (Richard Russon)
1284 - Move inode allocation strategy to Al's new stuff but maintain the
1285 divorce of ntfs_inode from struct inode. To achieve this we have two
1286 separate slab caches, one for big ntfs inodes containing a struct
1287 inode and pure ntfs inodes and at the same time fix some faulty
1288 error code paths in ntfs_read_inode().
1289 - Show mount options in proc (inode.c::ntfs_show_options()).
1290
1291tng-0.0.4 - Big changes, getting in line with Al Viro's comments.
1292
1293 - Modified (un)map_mft_record functions to be common for read and write
1294 case. To specify which is which, added extra parameter at front of
1295 parameter list. Pass either READ or WRITE to this, each has the
1296 obvious meaning.
1297 - General cleanups to allow for easier folding in vi.
1298 - attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() now accepts the old runlist
1299 argument, and invokes attrib.c::merge_run_lists() to merge the old
1300 and the new runlists.
1301 - Removed attrib.c::find_first_attr().
1302 - Implemented loading of attribute list and complete runlist for $MFT.
1303 This means we now cope with $MFT being spread across several mft
1304 records.
1305 - Adapt to 2.5.2-pre9 and the changed create_empty_buffers() syntax.
1306 - Adapt major/minor/kdev_t/[bk]devname stuff to new 2.5.x kernels.
1307 - Make ntfs_volume be allocated via kmalloc() instead of using a slab
1308 cache. There are too little ntfs_volume structures at any one time
1309 to justify a private slab cache.
1310 - Fix bogus kmap() use in async io completion. Now use kmap_atomic().
1311 Use KM_BIO_IRQ on advice from IRC/kernel...
1312 - Use ntfs_map_page() in map_mft_record() and create ->readpage method
1313 for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated
1314 address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also
1315 removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch.
1316 - Fix a bug where kfree() was used insted of ntfs_free().
1317 - Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of
1318 vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers.
1319 - Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode.
1320 - Add mft record number and sequence number to ntfs_inode. Stop using
1321 i_ino and i_generation for in-driver purposes.
1322 - Implement attrib.c::merge_run_lists(). (Richard Russon)
1323 - Remove use of proper inodes by extent inodes. Move i_ino and
1324 i_generation to ntfs_inode to do this. Apply simplifications that
1325 result and remove iget_no_wait(), etc.
1326 - Pass ntfs_inode everywhere in the driver (used to be struct inode).
1327 - Add reference counting in ntfs_inode for the ntfs inode itself and
1328 for the mapped mft record.
1329 - Extend mft record mapping so we can (un)map extent mft records (new
1330 functions (un)map_extent_mft_record), and so mappings are reference
1331 counted and don't have to happen twice if already mapped - just ref
1332 count increases.
1333 - Add -o iocharset as alias to -o nls for backwards compatibility.
1334 - The latest core patch is now tiny. In fact just a single additional
1335 export is necessary over the base kernel.
1336
1337tng-0.0.3 - Cleanups, enhancements, bug fixes.
1338
1339 - Work on attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() to detect base extents
1340 and setup the runlist appropriately using knowledge provided by the
1341 sizes in the base attribute record.
1342 - Balance the get_/put_attr_search_ctx() calls so we don't leak memory
1343 any more.
1344 - Introduce ntfs_malloc_nofs() and ntfs_free() to allocate/free a single
1345 page or use vmalloc depending on the amount of memory requested.
1346 - Cleanup error output. The __FUNCTION__ "(): " is now added
1347 automatically. Introduced a new header file debug.h to support this
1348 and also moved ntfs_debug() function into it.
1349 - Make reading of compressed files more intelligent and especially get
1350 rid of the vmalloc_nofs() from readpage(). This now uses per CPU
1351 buffers (allocated at first mount with cluster size <= 4kiB and
1352 deallocated on last umount with cluster size <= 4kiB), and
1353 asynchronous io for the compressed data using a list of buffer heads.
1354 Er, we use synchronous io as async io only works on whole pages
1355 covered by buffers and not on individual buffer heads...
1356 - Bug fix for reading compressed files with sparse compression blocks.
1357
1358tng-0.0.2 - Now handles larger/fragmented/compressed volumes/files/dirs.
1359
1360 - Fixed handling of directories when cluster size exceeds index block
1361 size.
1362 - Hide DOS only name space directory entries from readdir() but allow
1363 them in lookup(). This should fix the problem that Linux doesn't
1364 support directory hard links, while still allowing access to entries
1365 via their short file name. This also has the benefit of mimicking
1366 what Windows users are used to, so it is the ideal solution.
1367 - Implemented sync_page everywhere so no more hangs in D state when
1368 waiting for a page.
1369 - Stop using bforget() in favour of brelse().
1370 - Stop locking buffers unnecessarily.
1371 - Implemented compressed files (inode->mapping contains uncompressed
1372 data, raw compressed data is currently bread() into a vmalloc()ed
1373 memory buffer).
1374 - Enable compressed directories. (Their index root is marked compressed
1375 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1376 compressed.)
1377 - Use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in the ntfs_error and ntfs_warning
1378 functions. (Thanks to Will Dyson for pointing this out.)
1379 - Moved the ntfs_inode and ntfs_volume (the former ntfs_inode_info and
1380 ntfs_sb_info) out of the common inode and super_block structures and
1381 started using the generic_ip and generic_sbp pointers instead. This
1382 makes ntfs entirely private with respect to the kernel tree.
1383 - Detect compiler version and abort with error message if gcc less than
1384 2.96 is used.
1385 - Fix bug in name comparison function in unistr.c.
1386 - Implement attribute lists part 1, the infrastructure: search contexts
1387 and operations, find_external_attr(), lookup_attr()) and make the
1388 code use the infrastructure.
1389 - Fix stupid buffer overflow bug that became apparent on larger run
1390 list containing attributes.
1391 - Fix bugs in readdir() that became apparent on larger directories.
1392
1393 The driver is now really useful and survives the test
1394 find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
1395 without any error messages on a over 1GiB sized partition with >16k
1396 files on it, including compressed files and directories and many files
1397 and directories with attribute lists.
1398
1399tng-0.0.1 - The first useful version.
1400
1401 - Added ntfs_lookup().
1402 - Added default upcase generation and handling.
1403 - Added compile options to be shown on module init.
1404 - Many bug fixes that were "hidden" before.
1405 - Update to latest kernel.
1406 - Added ntfs_readdir().
1407 - Added file operations for mmap(), read(), open() and llseek(). We just
1408 use the generic ones. The whole point of going through implementing
1409 readpage() methods and where possible get_block() call backs is that
1410 this allows us to make use of the generic high level methods provided
1411 by the kernel.
1412
1413 The driver is now actually useful! Yey. (-: It undoubtedly has got bugs
1414 though and it doesn't implement accesssing compressed files yet. Also,
1415 accessing files with attribute list attributes is not implemented yet
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001416 either. But for small or simple filesystems it should work and allow
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001417 you to list directories, use stat on directory entries and the file
1418 system, open, read, mmap and llseek around in files. A big mile stone
1419 has been reached!
1420
1421tng-0.0.0 - Initial version tag.
1422
1423 Initial driver implementation. The driver can mount and umount simple
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001424 NTFS filesystems (i.e. ones without attribute lists in the system
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001425 files). If the mount fails there might be problems in the error handling
1426 code paths, so be warned. Otherwise it seems to be loading the system
1427 files nicely and the mft record read mapping/unmapping seems to be
1428 working nicely, too. Proof of inode metadata in the page cache and non-
1429 resident file unnamed stream data in the page cache concepts is thus
1430 complete.