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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 Altaparmakov7e693072005-03-03 16:38:59 +000091 - Add AT_EA in addition to AT_DATA to whitelist for being allowed to
92 be non-resident in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident().
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070093
942.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements.
95
96 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate().
97 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to return an error code
98 instead of void and provide a helper ntfs_truncate_vfs() for the
99 vfs ->truncate method.
100 - Add a new ntfs inode flag NInoTruncateFailed() and modify
101 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to set and clear it appropriately.
102 - Fix min_size and max_size definitions in ATTR_DEF structure in
103 fs/ntfs/layout.h to be signed.
104 - Add attribute definition handling helpers to fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]:
105 ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check(), ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident(), and
106 ntfs_attr_can_be_resident(), which in turn use the new private helper
107 ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef().
108 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty(), take the
109 mapping->private_lock around the dirtying of the buffer heads
110 analagous to the way it is done in __set_page_dirty_buffers().
111 - Ensure the mft record size does not exceed the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at
112 mount time as this cannot work with the current implementation.
113 - Check for location of attribute name and improve error handling in
114 general in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() and friends.
115 - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage(), if the page is fully outside
116 i_size, i.e. race with truncate, invalidate the buffers on the page
117 so that they become freeable and hence the page does not leak.
118 - Remove unused function fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_merge(). (Adrian
119 Bunk)
120 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_find() that resulted in
121 a NULL pointer dereference in the error code path when a corrupt
122 attribute was found. (Thanks to Domen Puncer for the bug report.)
123 - Add MODULE_VERSION() to fs/ntfs/super.c.
124 - Make several functions and variables static. (Adrian Bunk)
125 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() so it allocates
126 buffers for the page if they are not present and then marks the
127 buffers belonging to the ntfs record dirty. This causes the buffers
128 to become busy and hence they are safe from removal until the page
129 has been written out.
130 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find() in the
131 error handling code path that resulted in a BUG() due to trying to
132 unmap an extent mft record when the mapping of it had failed and it
133 thus was not mapped. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for the bug report.)
134 - Drop the runlist lock after the vcn has been read in
135 fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::__ntfs_cluster_free().
136 - Rewrite handling of multi sector transfer errors. We now do not set
137 PageError() when such errors are detected in the async i/o handler
138 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(). All users of mst
139 protected attributes now check the magic of each ntfs record as they
140 use it and act appropriately. This has the effect of making errors
141 granular per ntfs record rather than per page which solves the case
142 where we cannot access any of the ntfs records in a page when a
143 single one of them had an mst error. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for
144 the bug report.)
145 - Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date()
146 where we failed to release i_sem on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode.
147 - Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
148 - Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e.
149 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(),
150 and write_mft_record_nolock(). From now on we require that the
151 complete runlist for the mft mirror is always mapped into memory.
152 - Add creation of buffers to fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
153 - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block().
154 - Cleanup fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page() since we know that a
155 resident attribute will be smaller than a page which makes the code
156 simpler. Also make the code more tolerant to concurrent ->truncate.
157
1582.1.21 - Fix some races and bugs, rewrite mft write code, add mft allocator.
159
160 - Implement extent mft record deallocation
161 fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_extent_mft_record_free().
162 - Splitt runlist related functions off from attrib.[hc] to runlist.[hc].
163 - Add vol->mft_data_pos and initialize it at mount time.
164 - Rename init_runlist() to ntfs_init_runlist(), ntfs_vcn_to_lcn() to
165 ntfs_rl_vcn_to_lcn(), decompress_mapping_pairs() to
166 ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(), ntfs_merge_runlists() to
167 ntfs_runlists_merge() and adapt all callers.
168 - Add fs/ntfs/runlist.[hc]::ntfs_get_nr_significant_bytes(),
169 ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs(), ntfs_write_significant_bytes(),
170 and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build(), adapted from libntfs.
171 - Make fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() not
172 static and add a declaration for it to lcnalloc.h.
173 - Add fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.h::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl() which is a static
174 inline wrapper for ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() which takes the
175 cluster bitmap lock for the duration of the call.
176 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_record_resize().
177 - Implement the equivalent of memset() for an ntfs attribute in
178 fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_set() and switch
179 fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_empty_logfile() to using it.
180 - Remove unnecessary casts from LCN_* constants.
181 - Implement fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock().
182 - Add MFT_RECORD_OLD as a copy of MFT_RECORD in fs/ntfs/layout.h and
183 change MFT_RECORD to contain the NTFS 3.1+ specific fields.
184 - Add a helper function fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which
185 marks all buffers belonging to an ntfs record dirty, followed by
186 marking the page the ntfs record is in dirty and also marking the vfs
187 inode containing the ntfs record dirty (I_DIRTY_PAGES).
188 - Switch fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to using the
189 new helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and remove the no
190 longer needed fs/ntfs/index.[hc]::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty().
191 - Move ntfs_{un,}map_page() from ntfs.h to aops.h and fix resulting
192 include errors.
193 - Move the typedefs for runlist_element and runlist from types.h to
194 runlist.h and fix resulting include errors.
195 - Remove unused {__,}format_mft_record() from fs/ntfs/mft.c.
196 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::__mark_mft_record_dirty() to use the helper
197 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which also changes the behaviour in that we
198 now set the buffers belonging to the mft record dirty as well as the
199 page itself.
200 - Update fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and sync_mft_mirror()
201 to cope with the fact that there now are dirty buffers in mft pages.
202 - Update fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode() to also use the helper
203 mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and thus to set the buffers belonging to the
204 mft record dirty as well as the page itself.
205 - Fix compiler warnings on x86-64 in fs/ntfs/dir.c. (Randy Dunlap,
206 slightly modified by me)
207 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record() which fails with -EALREADY if
208 the mft record is already locked and otherwise behaves the same way
209 as fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_mft_record().
210 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() so that it only
211 writes the mft record if the buffers belonging to it are dirty.
212 Otherwise we assume that it was written out by other means already.
213 - Attempting to write outside initialized size is _not_ a bug so remove
214 the bug check from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(). It is in
215 fact required to write outside initialized size when preparing to
216 extend the initialized size.
217 - Map the page instead of using page_address() before writing to it in
218 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mft_writepage().
219 - Provide exclusion between opening an inode / mapping an mft record
220 and accessing the mft record in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage()
221 by setting the page not uptodate throughout ntfs_mft_writepage().
222 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block()
223 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
224 - Add the helper fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_may_write_mft_record() which
225 checks if an mft record may be written out safely obtaining any
226 necessary locks in the process. This is used by
227 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block().
228 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to also work for
229 writing mft records and improve its error handling in the process.
230 Now if any of the records in the page fail to be written out, all
231 other records will be written out instead of aborting completely.
232 - Remove ntfs_mft_aops and update all users to use ntfs_mst_aops.
233 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to set the
234 ntfs_mst_aops for all inodes which are NInoMstProtected() and
235 ntfs_aops for all other inodes.
236 - Rename fs/ntfs/mft.c::sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() to
237 ntfs_sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() and change their parameters so they
238 no longer require an ntfs inode to be present. Update all callers.
239 - Cleanup the error handling in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror().
240 - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror()
241 to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied.
242 - Remove the no longer needed fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() and
243 fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record().
244 - Fix callers of fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to call it
245 with the ntfs inode which contains the page rather than the ntfs
246 inode the mft record of which is in the page.
247 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by moving the
248 index inode bitmap inode release code from there to
249 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_clear_big_inode(). (Thanks to Christoph
250 Hellwig for spotting this.)
251 - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by taking the
252 inode semaphore around the code that sets ni->itype.index.bmp_ino to
253 NULL and reorganize the code to optimize it a bit. (Thanks to
254 Christoph Hellwig for spotting this.)
255 - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to no longer take the
256 ntfs inode as a parameter as this is confusing and misleading and the
257 needed ntfs inode is available via NTFS_I(page->mapping->host).
258 Adapt all callers to this change.
259 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and
260 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to only check the dirty state
261 of the first buffer in a record and to take this as the ntfs record
262 dirty state. We cannot look at the dirty state for subsequent
263 buffers because we might be racing with
264 fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty().
265 - Move the static inline ntfs_init_big_inode() from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
266 inode.h and make fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_init_inode() non-static and
267 add a declaration for it to inode.h. Fix some compilation issues
268 that resulted due to #includes and header file interdependencies.
269 - Simplify setup of i_mode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode().
270 - Add helpers fs/ntfs/layout.h::MK_MREF() and MK_LE_MREF().
271 - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() to only verify the mft
272 record sequence number if it is specified (i.e. not zero).
273 - Add fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_alloc() and various helper
274 functions used by it.
275 - Update Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt with instructions on how to
276 use the Device-Mapper driver with NTFS ftdisk/LDM raid. This removes
277 the linear raid problem with the Software RAID / MD driver when one
278 or more of the devices has an odd number of sectors.
279
2802.1.20 - Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release.
281
282 - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx()
283 where we did not clear ctx->al_entry but it was still set due to
284 changes in ntfs_attr_lookup() and ntfs_external_attr_find() in
285 particular.
286 - Fix another stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find()
287 where we forgot to unmap the extent mft record when we had finished
288 enumerating an attribute which caused a bug check to trigger when the
289 VFS calls ->clear_inode.
290
2912.1.19 - Many cleanups, improvements, and a minor bug fix.
292
293 - Update ->setattr (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) to refuse to
294 change the uid, gid, and mode of an inode as we do not support NTFS
295 ACLs yet.
296 - Remove BKL use from ntfs_setattr() syncing up with the rest of the
297 kernel.
298 - Get rid of the ugly transparent union in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir()
299 and ntfs_filldir() as per suggestion from Al Viro.
300 - Change '\0' and L'\0' to simply 0 as per advice from Linus Torvalds.
301 - Update ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) to check if the
302 inode size has changed and to only output an error if so.
303 - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.h::attribute_value_length() to ntfs_attr_size().
304 - Add le{16,32,64} as well as sle{16,32,64} data types to
305 fs/ntfs/types.h.
306 - Change ntfschar to be le16 instead of u16 in fs/ntfs/types.h.
307 - Add le versions of VCN, LCN, and LSN called leVCN, leLCN, and leLSN,
308 respectively, to fs/ntfs/types.h.
309 - Update endianness conversion macros in fs/ntfs/endian.h to use the
310 new types as appropriate.
311 - Do proper type casting when using sle64_to_cpup() in fs/ntfs/dir.c
312 and index.c.
313 - Add leMFT_REF data type to fs/ntfs/layout.h.
314 - Update all NTFS header files with the new little endian data types.
315 Affected files are fs/ntfs/layout.h, logfile.h, and time.h.
316 - Do proper type casting when using ntfs_is_*_recordp() in
317 fs/ntfs/logfile.c, mft.c, and super.c.
318 - Fix all the sparse bitwise warnings. Had to change all the typedef
319 enums storing little endian values to simple enums plus a typedef for
320 the datatype to make sparse happy.
321 - Fix a bug found by the new sparse bitwise warnings where the default
322 upcase table was defined as a pointer to wchar_t rather than ntfschar
323 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h and super.c.
324 - Change {const_,}cpu_to_le{16,32}(0) to just 0 as suggested by Al Viro.
325
3262.1.18 - Fix scheduling latencies at mount time as well as an endianness bug.
327
328 - Remove vol->nr_mft_records as it was pretty meaningless and optimize
329 the calculation of total/free inodes as used by statfs().
330 - Fix scheduling latencies in ntfs_fill_super() by dropping the BKL
331 because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock semaphore which
332 provides safe locking. (Ingo Molnar)
333 - Fix a potential bug in fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() that
334 could occur in the future for when we start closing/freeing extent
335 inodes if we don't set base_ni->ext.extent_ntfs_inos to NULL after
336 we free it.
337 - Rename {find,lookup}_attr() to ntfs_attr_{find,lookup}() as well as
338 find_external_attr() to ntfs_external_attr_find() to cleanup the
339 namespace a bit and to be more consistent with libntfs.
340 - Rename {{re,}init,get,put}_attr_search_ctx() to
341 ntfs_attr_{{re,}init,get,put}_search_ctx() as well as the type
342 attr_search_context to ntfs_attr_search_ctx.
343 - Force use of ntfs_attr_find() in ntfs_attr_lookup() when searching
344 for the attribute list attribute itself.
345 - Fix endianness bug in ntfs_external_attr_find().
346 - Change ntfs_{external_,}attr_find() to return 0 on success, -ENOENT
347 if the attribute is not found, and -EIO on real error. In the case
348 of -ENOENT, the search context is updated to describe the attribute
349 before which the attribute being searched for would need to be
350 inserted if such an action were to be desired and in the case of
351 ntfs_external_attr_find() the search context is also updated to
352 indicate the attribute list entry before which the attribute list
353 entry of the attribute being searched for would need to be inserted
354 if such an action were to be desired. Also make ntfs_find_attr()
355 static and remove its prototype from attrib.h as it is not used
356 anywhere other than attrib.c. Update ntfs_attr_lookup() and all
357 callers of ntfs_{external,}attr_{find,lookup}() for the new return
358 values.
359 - Minor cleanup of fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_init_locked_inode().
360
3612.1.17 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths and other updates.
362
363 - Implement bitmap modification code (fs/ntfs/bitmap.[hc]). This
364 includes functions to set/clear a single bit or a run of bits.
365 - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_find_vcn() which returns the locked
366 runlist element containing a particular vcn. It also takes care of
367 mapping any needed runlist fragments.
368 - Implement cluster (de-)allocation code (fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.[hc]).
369 - Load attribute definition table from $AttrDef at mount time.
370 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths involving (de)allocation of
371 the default and volume upcase tables.
372 - Remove ntfs_nr_mounts as it is no longer used.
373
3742.1.16 - Implement access time updates, file sync, async io, and read/writev.
375
376 - Add support for readv/writev and aio_read/aio_write (fs/ntfs/file.c).
377 This is done by setting the appropriate file operations pointers to
378 the generic helper functions provided by mm/filemap.c.
379 - Implement fsync, fdatasync, and msync both for files (fs/ntfs/file.c)
380 and directories (fs/ntfs/dir.c).
381 - Add support for {a,m,c}time updates to inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().
382 Note, except for the root directory and any other system files opened
383 by the user, the system files will not have their access times
384 updated as they are only accessed at the inode level an hence the
385 file level functions which cause the times to be updated are never
386 invoked.
387
3882.1.15 - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
389
390 - Add new element itype.index.collation_rule to the ntfs inode
391 structure and set it appropriately in ntfs_read_locked_inode().
392 - Implement a new inode type "index" to allow efficient access to the
393 indices found in various system files and adapt inode handling
394 accordingly (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]). An index inode is essentially an
395 attribute inode (NInoAttr() is true) with an attribute type of
396 AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION. As such, it is no longer allowed to call
397 ntfs_attr_iget() with an attribute type of AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION as
398 there would be no way to distinguish between normal attribute inodes
399 and index inodes. The function to obtain an index inode is
400 ntfs_index_iget() and it uses the helper function
401 ntfs_read_locked_index_inode(). Note, we do not overload
402 ntfs_attr_iget() as indices consist of multiple attributes so using
403 ntfs_attr_iget() to obtain an index inode would be confusing.
404 - Ensure that there is no overflow when doing page->index <<
405 PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT by casting page->index to s64 in fs/ntfs/aops.c.
406 - Use atomic kmap instead of kmap() in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page()
407 and ntfs_read_block().
408 - Use case sensitive attribute lookups instead of case insensitive ones.
409 - Lock all page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes while
410 accessing them to ensure we never see corrupt data while the page is
411 under writeout.
412 - Add framework for generic ntfs collation (fs/ntfs/collation.[hc]).
413 We have ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported() to check if the collation
414 rule you want to use is supported and ntfs_collation() which actually
415 collates two data items. We currently only support COLLATION_BINARY
416 and COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG but support for other collation rules will
417 be added as the need arises.
418 - Add a new type, ntfs_index_context, to allow retrieval of an index
419 entry using the corresponding index key. To get an index context,
420 use ntfs_index_ctx_get() and to release it, use ntfs_index_ctx_put().
421 This also adds a new slab cache for the index contexts. To lookup a
422 key in an index inode, use ntfs_index_lookup(). After modifying an
423 index entry, call ntfs_index_entry_flush_dcache_page() followed by
424 ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to ensure the changes are written out
425 to disk. For details see fs/ntfs/index.[hc]. Note, at present, if
426 an index entry is in the index allocation attribute rather than the
427 index root attribute it will not be written out (you will get a
428 warning message about discarded changes instead).
429 - Load the quota file ($Quota) and check if quota tracking is enabled
430 and if so, mark the quotas out of date. This causes windows to
431 rescan the volume on boot and update all quota entries.
432 - Add a set_page_dirty address space operation for ntfs_m[fs]t_aops.
433 It is simply set to __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() to make sure that
434 running set_page_dirty() on a page containing mft/ntfs records will
435 not affect the dirty state of the page buffers.
436 - Add fs/ntfs/index.c::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() which sets all
437 buffers that are inside the ntfs record in the page dirty after which
438 it sets the page dirty. This allows ->writepage to only write the
439 dirty index records rather than having to write all the records in
440 the page. Modify fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to
441 use this rather than __set_page_dirty_nobuffers().
442 - Implement fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() which enables the
443 writing of page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes
444 like the index allocation attribute in directory indices and other
445 indices like $Quota/$Q, etc. This means that the quota is now marked
446 out of date on all volumes rather than only on ones where the quota
447 defaults entry is in the index root attribute of the $Quota/$Q index.
448
4492.1.14 - Fix an NFSd caused deadlock reported by several users.
450
451 - Modify fs/ntfs/ntfs_readdir() to copy the index root attribute value
452 to a buffer so that we can put the search context and unmap the mft
453 record before calling the filldir() callback. We need to do this
454 because of NFSd which calls ->lookup() from its filldir callback()
455 and this causes NTFS to deadlock as ntfs_lookup() maps the mft record
456 of the directory and since ntfs_readdir() has got it mapped already
457 ntfs_lookup() deadlocks.
458
4592.1.13 - Enable overwriting of resident files and housekeeping of system files.
460
461 - Implement writing of mft records (fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]), which includes
462 keeping the mft mirror in sync with the mft when mirrored mft records
463 are written. The functions are write_mft_record{,_nolock}(). The
464 implementation is quite rudimentary for now with lots of things not
465 implemented yet but I am not sure any of them can actually occur so
466 I will wait for people to hit each one and only then implement it.
467 - Commit open system inodes at umount time. This should make it
468 virtually impossible for sync_mft_mirror_umount() to ever be needed.
469 - Implement ->write_inode (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode()) for the
470 ntfs super operations. This gives us inode writing via the VFS inode
471 dirty code paths. Note: Access time updates are not implemented yet.
472 - Implement fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::{,__}mark_mft_record_dirty() and make
473 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and ntfs_commit_write() use it, thus
474 finally enabling resident file overwrite! (-8 This also includes a
475 placeholder for ->writepage (ntfs_mft_writepage()), which for now
476 just redirties the page and returns. Also, at umount time, we for
477 now throw away all mft data page cache pages after the last call to
478 ntfs_commit_inode() in the hope that all inodes will have been
479 written out by then and hence no dirty (meta)data will be lost. We
480 also check for this case and emit an error message telling the user
481 to run chkdsk.
482 - Use set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback() in the resident
483 attribute code path of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() otherwise
484 the radix-tree tag PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the
485 page is clean.
486 - Implement ntfs_mft_writepage() so it now checks if any of the mft
487 records in the page are dirty and if so redirties the page and
488 returns. Otherwise it just returns (after doing set_page_writeback(),
489 unlock_page(), end_page_writeback() or the radix-tree tag
490 PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the page is clean), thus
491 alowing the VM to do with the page as it pleases. Also, at umount
492 time, now only throw away dirty mft (meta)data pages if dirty inodes
493 are present and ask the user to email us if they see this happening.
494 - Add functions ntfs_{clear,set}_volume_flags(), to modify the volume
495 information flags (fs/ntfs/super.c).
496 - Mark the volume dirty when (re)mounting read-write and mark it clean
497 when unmounting or remounting read-only. If any volume errors are
498 found, the volume is left marked dirty to force chkdsk to run.
499 - Add code to set the NT4 compatibility flag when (re)mounting
500 read-write for newer NTFS versions but leave it commented out for now
501 since we do not make any modifications that are NTFS 1.2 specific yet
502 and since setting this flag breaks Captive-NTFS which is not nice.
503 This code must be enabled once we start writing NTFS 1.2 specific
504 changes otherwise Windows NTFS driver might crash / cause corruption.
505
5062.1.12 - Fix the second fix to the decompression engine and some cleanups.
507
508 - Add a new address space operations struct, ntfs_mst_aops, for mst
509 protected attributes. This is because the default ntfs_aops do not
510 make sense with mst protected data and were they to write anything to
511 such an attribute they would cause data corruption so we provide
512 ntfs_mst_aops which does not have any write related operations set.
513 - Cleanup dirty ntfs inode handling (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]) which also
514 includes an adapted ntfs_commit_inode() and an implementation of
515 ntfs_write_inode() which for now just cleans dirty inodes without
516 writing them (it does emit a warning that this is happening).
517 - Undo the second decompression engine fix (see 2.1.9 release ChangeLog
518 entry) as it was only fixing a theoretical bug but at the same time
519 it badly broke the handling of sparse and uncompressed compression
520 blocks.
521
5222.1.11 - Driver internal cleanups.
523
524 - Only build logfile.o if building the driver with read-write support.
525 - Really final white space cleanups.
526 - Use generic_ffs() instead of ffs() in logfile.c which allows the
527 log_page_size variable to be optimized by gcc into a constant.
528 - Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere as uchar_t is unsigned 1-byte
529 char as defined by POSIX and as found on some systems.
530
5312.1.10 - Force read-only (re)mounting of volumes with unsupported volume flags.
532
533 - Finish off the white space cleanups (remove trailing spaces, etc).
534 - Clean up ntfs_fill_super() and ntfs_read_inode_mount() by removing
535 the kludges around the first iget(). Instead of (re)setting ->s_op
536 we have the $MFT inode set up by explicit new_inode() / set ->i_ino /
537 insert_inode_hash() / call ntfs_read_inode_mount() directly. This
538 kills the need for second super_operations and allows to return error
539 from ntfs_read_inode_mount() without resorting to ugly "poisoning"
540 tricks. (Al Viro)
541 - Force read-only (re)mounting if any of the following bits are set in
542 the volume information flags:
543 VOLUME_IS_DIRTY, VOLUME_RESIZE_LOG_FILE,
544 VOLUME_UPGRADE_ON_MOUNT, VOLUME_DELETE_USN_UNDERWAY,
545 VOLUME_REPAIR_OBJECT_ID, VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK
546 To make this easier we define VOLUME_MUST_MOUNT_RO_MASK with all the
547 above bits set so the test is made easy.
548
5492.1.9 - Fix two bugs in decompression engine.
550
551 - Fix a bug where we would not always detect that we have reached the
552 end of a compression block because we were ending at minus one byte
553 which is effectively the same as being at the end. The fix is to
554 check whether the uncompressed buffer has been fully filled and if so
555 we assume we have reached the end of the compression block. A big
556 thank you to Marcin Gibuła for the bug report, the assistance in
557 tracking down the bug and testing the fix.
558 - Fix a possible bug where when a compressed read is truncated to the
559 end of the file, the offset inside the last page was not truncated.
560
5612.1.8 - Handle $MFT mirror and $LogFile, improve time handling, and cleanups.
562
563 - Use get_bh() instead of manual atomic_inc() in fs/ntfs/compress.c.
564 - Modify fs/ntfs/time.c::ntfs2utc(), get_current_ntfs_time(), and
565 utc2ntfs() to work with struct timespec instead of time_t on the
566 Linux UTC time side thus preserving the full precision of the NTFS
567 time and only loosing up to 99 nano-seconds in the Linux UTC time.
568 - Move fs/ntfs/time.c to fs/ntfs/time.h and make the time functions
569 static inline.
570 - Remove unused ntfs_dirty_inode().
571 - Cleanup super operations declaration in fs/ntfs/super.c.
572 - Wrap flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in #ifdef NTFS_RW.
573 - Add NInoTestSetFoo() and NInoTestClearFoo() macro magic to
574 fs/ntfs/inode.h and use it to declare NInoTest{Set,Clear}Dirty.
575 - Move typedefs for ntfs_attr and test_t from fs/ntfs/inode.c to
576 fs/ntfs/inode.h so they can be used elsewhere.
577 - Determine the mft mirror size as the number of mirrored mft records
578 and store it in ntfs_volume->mftmirr_size (fs/ntfs/super.c).
579 - Load the mft mirror at mount time and compare the mft records stored
580 in it to the ones in the mft. Force a read-only mount if the two do
581 not match (fs/ntfs/super.c).
582 - Fix type casting related warnings on 64-bit architectures. Thanks
583 to Meelis Roos for reporting them.
584 - Move %L to %ll as %L is floating point and %ll is integer which is
585 what we want.
586 - Read the journal ($LogFile) and determine if the volume has been
587 shutdown cleanly and force a read-only mount if not (fs/ntfs/super.c
588 and fs/ntfs/logfile.c). This is a little bit of a crude check in
589 that we only look at the restart areas and not at the actual log
590 records so that there will be a very small number of cases where we
591 think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean. This should
592 only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly and did not
593 have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o.
594 - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a read-write (re)mount
595 is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it with 0xff bytes to
596 ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale
597 journal after Linux has written to the volume.
598
5992.1.7 - Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes.
600
601 - Set i_generation in the VFS inode from the seq_no of the NTFS inode.
602 - Make ntfs_lookup() NFS export safe, i.e. use d_splice_alias(), etc.
603 - Implement ->get_dentry() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_dentry() as the
604 default doesn't allow inode number 0 which is a valid inode on NTFS
605 and even if it did allow that it uses iget() instead of ntfs_iget()
606 which makes it useless for us.
607 - Implement ->get_parent() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_parent() as the
608 default just returns -EACCES which is not very useful.
609 - Define export operations (->s_export_op) for NTFS (ntfs_export_ops)
610 and set them up in the super block at mount time (super.c) this
611 allows mounted NTFS volumes to be exported via NFS.
612 - Add missing return -EOPNOTSUPP; in
613 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write().
614 - Enforce no atime and no dir atime updates at mount/remount time as
615 they are not implemented yet anyway.
616 - Move a few assignments in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::load_attribute_list() to
617 after a NULL check. Thanks to Dave Jones for pointing this out.
618
6192.1.6 - Fix minor bug in handling of compressed directories.
620
621 - Fix bug in handling of compressed directories. A compressed
622 directory is not really compressed so when we set the ->i_blocks
623 field of a compressed directory inode we were setting it from the
624 non-existing field ni->itype.compressed.size which gave random
625 results... For directories we now always use ni->allocated_size.
626
6272.1.5 - Fix minor bug in attribute list attribute handling.
628
629 - Fix bug in attribute list handling. Actually it is not as much a bug
630 as too much protection in that we were not allowing attribute lists
631 which waste space on disk while Windows XP clearly allows it and in
632 fact creates such attribute lists so our driver was failing.
633 - Update NTFS documentation ready for 2.6 kernel release.
634
6352.1.4 - Reduce compiler requirements.
636
637 - Remove all uses of unnamed structs and unions in the driver to make
638 old and newer gcc versions happy. Makes it a bit uglier IMO but at
639 least people will stop hassling me about it.
640
6412.1.3 - Important bug fixes in corner cases.
642
643 - super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Correct the check for 64-bit
644 clusters. (Philipp Thomas)
645 - attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a
646 multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs
647 Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>)
648
6492.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs.
650
651 - Fix buggy free cluster and free inode determination logic.
652
6532.1.1 - Minor updates.
654
655 - Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files.
656 - Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in
657 fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.ord>)
658 - Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc.
659 - Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write()
660 around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write. Adapt NTFS appropriately
661 in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() by using
662 kmap_atomic(KM_USER0).
663
6642.1.0 - First steps towards write support: implement file overwrite.
665
666 - Add configuration option for developmental write support with an
667 appropriately scary configuration help text.
668 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its
669 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block(). This enables mmap(2) based
670 overwriting of existing files on ntfs. Note: Resident files are
671 only written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so
672 avoid writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
673 - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_write(), its
674 helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() and their
675 counterparts, fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_write(), and
676 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write(), respectively. Also,
677 add generic_file_write() to the ntfs file operations (fs/ntfs/file.c).
678 This enables write(2) based overwriting of existing files on ntfs.
679 Note: As with mmap(2) based overwriting, resident files are only
680 written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so avoid
681 writing to files smaller than about 1kiB.
682 - Implement ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) and
683 ->setattr() (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) inode operations for
684 files with the purpose of intercepting and aborting all i_size
685 changes which we do not support yet. ntfs_truncate() actually only
686 emits a warning message but AFAICS our interception of i_size changes
687 elsewhere means ntfs_truncate() never gets called for i_size changes.
688 It is only called from generic_file_write() when we fail in
689 ntfs_prepare_{,nonresident_}write() in order to discard any
690 instantiated buffers beyond i_size. Thus i_size is not actually
691 changed so our warning message is enough. Unfortunately it is not
692 possible to easily determine if i_size is being changed or not hence
693 we just emit an appropriately worded error message.
694
6952.0.25 - Small bug fixes and cleanups.
696
697 - Unlock the page in an out of memory error code path in
698 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
699 - If fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page() is called on an uptodate page,
700 just unlock the page and return. (This can happen due to ->writepage
701 clearing PageUptodate() during write out of MstProtected()
702 attributes.
703 - Remove leaked write code again.
704
7052.0.24 - Cleanups.
706
707 - Treat BUG_ON() as ASSERT() not VERIFY(), i.e. do not use side effects
708 inside BUG_ON(). (Adam J. Richter)
709 - Split logical OR expressions inside BUG_ON() into individual BUG_ON()
710 calls for improved debugging. (Adam J. Richter)
711 - Add errors flag to the ntfs volume state, accessed via
712 NVol{,Set,Clear}Errors(vol).
713 - Do not allow read-write remounts of read-only volumes with errors.
714 - Clarify comment for ntfs file operation sendfile which was added by
715 Christoph Hellwig a while ago (just using generic_file_sendfile())
716 to say that ntfs ->sendfile is only used for the case where the
717 source data is on the ntfs partition and the destination is
718 somewhere else, i.e. nothing we need to concern ourselves with.
719 - Add generic_file_write() as our ntfs file write operation.
720
7212.0.23 - Major bug fixes (races, deadlocks, non-i386 architectures).
722
723 - Massive internal locking changes to mft record locking. Fixes lock
724 recursion and replaces the mrec_lock read/write semaphore with a
725 mutex. Also removes the now superfluous mft_count. This fixes several
726 race conditions and deadlocks, especially in the future write code.
727 - Fix ntfs over loopback for compressed files by adding an
728 optimization barrier. (gcc was screwing up otherwise ?)
729 - Miscellaneous cleanups all over the code and a fix or two in error
730 handling code paths.
731 Thanks go to Christoph Hellwig for pointing out the following two:
732 - Remove now unused function fs/ntfs/malloc.h::vmalloc_nofs().
733 - Fix ntfs_free() for ia64 and parisc by checking for VMALLOC_END, too.
734
7352.0.22 - Cleanups, mainly to ntfs_readdir(), and use C99 initializers.
736
737 - Change fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_reddir() to only read/write ->f_pos once
738 at entry/exit respectively.
739 - Use C99 initializers for structures.
740 - Remove unused variable blocks from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
741
7422.0.21 - Check for, and refuse to work with too large files/directories/volumes.
743
744 - Limit volume size at mount time to 2TiB on architectures where
745 unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector()).
746 This is the most we can do without overflowing the 32-bit limit of
747 the block device size imposed on us by sb_bread() and sb_getblk()
748 for the time being.
749 - Limit file/directory size at open() time to 16TiB on architectures
750 where unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open() and
751 fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_dir_open()). This is the most we can do without
752 overflowing the page cache page index.
753
7542.0.20 - Support non-resident directory index bitmaps, fix page leak in readdir.
755
756 - Move the directory index bitmap to use an attribute inode instead of
757 having special fields for it inside the ntfs inode structure. This
758 means that the index bitmaps now use the page cache for i/o, too,
759 and also as a side effect we get support for non-resident index
760 bitmaps for free.
761 - Simplify/cleanup error handling in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() and
762 fix a page leak that manifested itself in some cases.
763 - Add fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(), which we need to release the
764 index bitmap inode on the final iput().
765
7662.0.19 - Fix race condition, improvements, and optimizations in i/o interface.
767
768 - Apply block optimization added to fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block()
769 to fs/ntfs/compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() as well.
770 - Drop the "file" from ntfs_file_read_compressed_block().
771 - Rename fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_enb_buffer_read_async() to
772 ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() (more like the fs/buffer.c counterpart).
773 - Update ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() with the improved logic from
774 its updated counterpart fs/buffer.c::end_buffer_async_read(). Apply
775 further logic improvements to better determine when we set PageError.
776 - Update submission of buffers in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
777 check for the buffers being uptodate first in line with the updated
778 fs/buffer.c::block_read_full_page(). This plugs a small race
779 condition.
780
7812.0.18 - Fix race condition in reading of compressed files.
782
783 - There was a narrow window between checking a buffer head for being
784 uptodate and locking it in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block(). We now
785 lock the buffer and then check whether it is uptodate or not.
786
7872.0.17 - Cleanups and optimizations - shrinking the ToDo list.
788
789 - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to return an error
790 code and update callers, i.e. ntfs_iget(), to pass that error code
791 up instead of just using -EIO.
792 - Modifications to super.c to ensure that both mount and remount
793 cannot set any write related options when the driver is compiled
794 read-only.
795 - Optimize block resolution in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to
796 cache the current runlist element. This should improve performance
797 when reading very large and/or very fragmented data.
798
7992.0.16 - Convert access to $MFT/$BITMAP to attribute inode API.
800
801 - Fix a stupid bug introduced in 2.0.15 where we were unmapping the
802 wrong inode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_attr_iget().
803 - Fix debugging check in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block().
804 - Convert $MFT/$BITMAP access to attribute inode API and remove all
805 remnants of the ugly mftbmp address space and operations hack. This
806 means we finally have only one readpage function as well as only one
807 async io completion handler. Yey! The mft bitmap is now just an
808 attribute inode and is accessed from vol->mftbmp_ino just as if it
809 were a normal file. Fake inodes rule. (-:
810
8112.0.15 - Fake inodes based attribute i/o via the pagecache, fixes and cleanups.
812
813 - Fix silly bug in fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_options() which was causing
814 remounts to fail when the partition had an entry in /etc/fstab and
815 the entry specified the nls= option.
816 - Apply same macro magic used in fs/ntfs/inode.h to fs/ntfs/volume.h to
817 expand all the helper functions NVolFoo(), NVolSetFoo(), and
818 NVolClearFoo().
819 - Move copyright statement from driver initialisation message to
820 module description (fs/super.c). This makes the initialisation
821 message fit on one line and fits in better with rest of kernel.
822 - Update fs/ntfs/attrib.c::map_run_list() to work on both real and
823 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
824 - Implement fake attribute inodes allowing all attribute i/o to go via
825 the page cache and to use all the normal vfs/mm functionality:
826 - Add ntfs_attr_iget() and its helper ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode()
827 to fs/ntfs/inode.c.
828 - Add needed cleanup code to ntfs_clear_big_inode().
829 - Merge address space operations for files and directories (aops.c),
830 now just have ntfs_aops:
831 - Rename:
832 end_buffer_read_attr_async() -> ntfs_end_buffer_read_async(),
833 ntfs_attr_read_block() -> ntfs_read_block(),
834 ntfs_file_read_page() -> ntfs_readpage().
835 - Rewrite fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_readpage() to work on both real and
836 attribute inodes, and both for files and directories.
837 - Remove obsolete fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage().
838
8392.0.14 - Run list merging code cleanup, minor locking changes, typo fixes.
840
841 - Change fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() to not rely on BKL by moving
842 the locking out of super.c::get_nr_free_mft_records() and taking and
843 dropping the mftbmp_lock rw_semaphore in ntfs_statfs() itself.
844 - Bring attribute runlist merging code (fs/ntfs/attrib.c) in sync with
845 current userspace ntfs library code. This means that if a merge
846 fails the original runlists are always left unmodified instead of
847 being silently corrupted.
848 - Misc typo fixes.
849
8502.0.13 - Use iget5_locked() in preparation for fake inodes and small cleanups.
851
852 - Remove nr_mft_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_mft_records
853 from ntfs_volume structure.
854 - Remove nr_lcn_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_clusters
855 from ntfs_volume structure.
856 - Use iget5_locked() and friends instead of conventional iget(). Wrap
857 the call in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_iget() and update callers of iget()
858 to use ntfs_iget(). Leave only one iget() call at mount time so we
859 don't need an ntfs_iget_mount().
860 - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_new_extent_inode() to take mft_no as an
861 additional argument.
862
8632.0.12 - Initial cleanup of address space operations following 2.0.11 changes.
864
865 - Merge fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_mst_async() and
866 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_file_async() into one function
867 fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_attr_async() using NInoMstProtected()
868 to determine whether to apply mst fixups or not.
869 - Above change allows merging fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_file_read_block()
870 and fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() into one function
871 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_attr_read_block(). Also, create a tiny wrapper
872 fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() to transform the parameters from
873 the VFS readpage function prototype to the ntfs_attr_read_block()
874 function prototype.
875
8762.0.11 - Initial preparations for fake inode based attribute i/o.
877
878 - Move definition of ntfs_inode_state_bits to fs/ntfs/inode.h and
879 do some macro magic (adapted from include/linux/buffer_head.h) to
880 expand all the helper functions NInoFoo(), NInoSetFoo(), and
881 NInoClearFoo().
882 - Add new flag to ntfs_inode_state_bits: NI_Sparse.
883 - Add new fields to ntfs_inode structure to allow use of fake inodes
884 for attribute i/o: type, name, name_len. Also add new state bits:
885 NI_Attr, which, if set, indicates the inode is a fake inode, and
886 NI_MstProtected, which, if set, indicates the attribute uses multi
887 sector transfer protection, i.e. fixups need to be applied after
888 reads and before/after writes.
889 - Rename fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_inode() to
890 ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_extent_inode() and update callers.
891 - Use ntfs_clear_extent_inode() in fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_clear_inode()
892 instead of ntfs_destroy_extent_inode().
893 - Cleanup memory deallocations in {__,}ntfs_clear_{,big_}inode().
894 - Make all operations on ntfs inode state bits use the NIno* functions.
895 - Set up the new ntfs inode fields and state bits in
896 fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_inode() and add appropriate cleanup of
897 allocated memory to __ntfs_clear_inode().
898 - Cleanup ntfs_inode structure a bit for better ordering of elements
899 w.r.t. their size to allow better packing of the structure in memory.
900
9012.0.10 - There can only be 2^32 - 1 inodes on an NTFS volume.
902
903 - Add check at mount time to verify that the number of inodes on the
904 volume does not exceed 2^32 - 1, which is the maximum allowed for
905 NTFS according to Microsoft.
906 - Change mft_no member of ntfs_inode structure to be unsigned long.
907 Update all users. This makes ntfs_inode->mft_no just a copy of struct
908 inode->i_ino. But we can't just always use struct inode->i_ino and
909 remove mft_no because extent inodes do not have an attached struct
910 inode.
911
9122.0.9 - Decompression engine now uses a single buffer and other cleanups.
913
914 - Change decompression engine to use a single buffer protected by a
915 spin lock instead of per-CPU buffers. (Rusty Russell)
916 - Do not update cb_pos when handling a partial final page during
917 decompression of a sparse compression block, as the value is later
918 reset without being read/used. (Rusty Russell)
919 - Switch to using the new KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ for atomic kmap()s. (Andrew
920 Morton)
921 - Change buffer size in ntfs_readdir()/ntfs_filldir() to use
922 NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE which makes the buffers almost 1kiB each but
923 it also makes everything safer so it is a good thing.
924 - Miscellaneous minor cleanups to comments.
925
9262.0.8 - Major updates for handling of case sensitivity and dcache aliasing.
927
928 Big thanks go to Al Viro and other inhabitants of #kernel for investing
929 their time to discuss the case sensitivity and dcache aliasing issues.
930
931 - Remove unused source file fs/ntfs/attraops.c.
932 - Remove show_inodes mount option(s), thus dropping support for
933 displaying of short file names.
934 - Remove deprecated mount option posix.
935 - Restore show_sys_files mount option.
936 - Add new mount option case_sensitive, to determine if the driver
937 treats file names as case sensitive or not. If case sensitive, create
938 file names in the POSIX namespace. Otherwise create file names in the
939 LONG/WIN32 namespace. Note, files remain accessible via their short
940 file name, if it exists.
941 - Remove really dumb logic bug in boot sector recovery code.
942 - Fix dcache aliasing issues wrt short/long file names via changes
943 to fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() and
944 fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup():
945 - Add additional argument to ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() in which we
946 return information about the matching file name if the case is not
947 matching or the match is a short file name. See comments above the
948 function definition for details.
949 - Change ntfs_lookup() to only create dcache entries for the correctly
950 cased file name and only for the WIN32 namespace counterpart of DOS
951 namespace file names. This ensures we have only one dentry per
952 directory and also removes all dcache aliasing issues between short
953 and long file names once we add write support. See comments above
954 function for details.
955 - Fix potential 1 byte overflow in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_ucstonls().
956
9572.0.7 - Minor cleanups and updates for changes in core kernel code.
958
959 - Remove much of the NULL struct element initializers.
960 - Various updates to make compatible with recent kernels.
961 - Remove defines of MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE and include linux/buffer_head.h
962 in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h instead.
963 - Remove no longer needed KERNEL_VERSION checks. We are now in the
964 kernel proper so they are no longer needed.
965
9662.0.6 - Major bugfix to make compatible with other kernel changes.
967
968 - Initialize the mftbmp address space properly now that there are more
969 fields in the struct address_space. This was leading to hangs and
970 oopses on umount since 2.5.12 because of changes to other parts of
971 the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space()
972 function...
973 - Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The
974 only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_sem during
975 the call, and i_sem is sufficient protection against changes in the
976 directory inode (including ->i_size).
977 - Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to
978 default_llseek()) as this downs i_sem instead of the BKL which is
979 what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we
980 no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir().
981
9822.0.5 - Major bugfix. Buffer overflow in extent inode handling.
983
984 - No need to set old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as the
985 VFS does so via invocation of deactivate_super() calling
986 fs->fill_super() calling block_kill_super() which does it.
987 - BKL moved from VFS into dir.c::ntfs_readdir(). (Linus Torvalds)
988 -> Do we really need it? I don't think so as we have exclusion on
989 the directory ntfs_inode rw_semaphore mrec_lock. We mmight have to
990 move the ->f_pos accesses under the mrec_lock though. Check this...
991 - Fix really, really, really stupid buffer overflow in extent inode
992 handling in mft.c::map_extent_mft_record().
993
9942.0.4 - Cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.11.
995
996 - Add documentation on how to use the MD driver to be able to use NTFS
997 stripe and volume sets in Linux and generally cleanup documentation
998 a bit.
999 Remove all uses of kdev_t in favour of struct block_device *:
1000 - Change compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() to use
1001 sb_getblk() instead of getblk().
1002 - Change super.c::ntfs_fill_super() to use bdev_hardsect_size() instead
1003 of get_hardsect_size().
1004 - No need to get old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as
1005 fs/super.c::get_sb_bdev() already does this.
1006 - Set bh->b_bdev instead of bh->b_dev throughout aops.c.
1007
10082.0.3 - Small bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements.
1009
1010 - Remove some dead code from mft.c.
1011 - Optimize readpage and read_block functions throughout aops.c so that
1012 only initialized blocks are read. Non-initialized ones have their
1013 buffer head mapped, zeroed, and set up to date, without scheduling
1014 any i/o. Thanks to Al Viro for advice on how to avoid the device i/o.
1015 Thanks go to Andrew Morton for spotting the below:
1016 - Fix buglet in allocate_compression_buffers() error code path.
1017 - Call flush_dcache_page() after modifying page cache page contents in
1018 ntfs_file_readpage().
1019 - Check for existence of page buffers throughout aops.c before calling
1020 create_empty_buffers(). This happens when an I/O error occurs and the
1021 read is retried. (It also happens once writing is implemented so that
1022 needed doing anyway but I had left it for later...)
1023 - Don't BUG_ON() uptodate and/or mapped buffers throughout aops.c in
1024 readpage and read_block functions. Reasoning same as above (i.e. I/O
1025 error retries and future write code paths.)
1026
10272.0.2 - Minor updates and cleanups.
1028
1029 - Cleanup: rename mst.c::__post_read_mst_fixup to post_write_mst_fixup
1030 and cleanup the code a bit, removing the unused size parameter.
1031 - Change default fmask to 0177 and update documentation.
1032 - Change attrib.c::get_attr_search_ctx() to return the search context
1033 directly instead of taking the address of a pointer. A return value
1034 of NULL means the allocation failed. Updated all callers
1035 appropriately.
1036 - Update to 2.5.9 kernel (preserving backwards compatibility) by
1037 replacing all occurences of page->buffers with page_buffers(page).
1038 - Fix minor bugs in runlist merging, also minor cleanup.
1039 - Updates to bootsector layout and mft mirror contents descriptions.
1040 - Small bug fix in error detection in unistr.c and some cleanups.
1041 - Grow name buffer allocations in unistr.c in aligned mutlipled of 64
1042 bytes.
1043
10442.0.1 - Minor updates.
1045
1046 - Make default umask correspond to documentation.
1047 - Improve documentation.
1048 - Set default mode to include execute bit. The {u,f,d}mask can be used
1049 to take it away if desired. This allows binaries to be executed from
1050 a mounted ntfs partition.
1051
10522.0.0 - New version number. Remove TNG from the name. Now in the kernel.
1053
1054 - Add kill_super, just keeping up with the vfs changes in the kernel.
1055 - Repeat some changes from tng-0.0.8 that somehow got lost on the way
1056 from the CVS import into BitKeeper.
1057 - Begin to implement proper handling of allocated_size vs
1058 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size). Done are
1059 mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage(), aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async(),
1060 and attrib.c::load_attribute_list().
1061 - Lock the runlist in attrib.c::load_attribute_list() while using it.
1062 - Fix memory leak in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() and generally
1063 clean up compress.c a little, removing some uncommented/unused debug
1064 code.
1065 - Tidy up dir.c a little bit.
1066 - Don't bother getting the runlist in inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1067 - Merge mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage() and aops.c::ntfs_index_readpage()
1068 creating aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage(), improving the handling of
1069 holes and overflow in the process and implementing the correct
1070 equivalent of ntfs_file_get_block() in ntfs_mst_readpage() itself.
1071 I am aiming for correctness at the moment. Modularisation can come
1072 later.
1073 - Rename aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async() to
1074 end_buffer_read_mst_async() and optimize the overflow checking and
1075 handling.
1076 - Use the host of the mftbmp address space mapping to hold the ntfs
1077 volume. This is needed so the async i/o completion handler can
1078 retrieve a pointer to the volume. Hopefully this will not cause
1079 problems elsewhere in the kernel... Otherwise will need to use a
1080 fake inode.
1081 - Complete implementation of proper handling of allocated_size vs
1082 initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size) in whole driver.
1083 Basically aops.c is now completely rewritten.
1084 - Change NTFS driver name to just NTFS and set version number to 2.0.0
1085 to make a clear distinction from the old driver which is still on
1086 version 1.1.22.
1087
1088tng-0.0.8 - 08/03/2002 - Now using BitKeeper, http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/
1089
1090 - Replace bdevname(sb->s_dev) with sb->s_id.
1091 - Remove now superfluous new-line characters in all callers of
1092 ntfs_debug().
1093 - Apply kludge in ntfs_read_inode(), setting i_nlink to 1 for
1094 directories. Without this the "find" utility gets very upset which is
1095 fair enough as Linux/Unix do not support directory hard links.
1096 - Further runlist merging work. (Richard Russon)
1097 - Backwards compatibility for gcc-2.95. (Richard Russon)
1098 - Update to kernel 2.5.5-pre1 and rediff the now tiny patch.
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001099 - Convert to new filesystem declaration using ->ntfs_get_sb() and
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001100 replacing ntfs_read_super() with ntfs_fill_super().
1101 - Set s_maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to avoid page cache page index
1102 overflow on 32-bit architectures.
1103 - Cleanup upcase loading code to use ntfs_(un)map_page().
1104 - Disable/reenable preemtion in critical sections of compession engine.
1105 - Replace device size determination in ntfs_fill_super() with
1106 sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_size (in bytes) and remove now superfluous
1107 function super.c::get_nr_blocks().
1108 - Implement a mount time option (show_inodes) allowing choice of which
1109 types of inode names readdir() returns and modify ntfs_filldir()
1110 accordingly. There are several parameters to show_inodes:
1111 system: system files
1112 win32: long file names (including POSIX file names) [DEFAULT]
1113 long: same as win32
1114 dos: short file names only (excluding POSIX file names)
1115 short: same as dos
1116 posix: same as both win32 and dos
1117 all: all file names
1118 Note that the options are additive, i.e. specifying:
1119 -o show_inodes=system,show_inodes=win32,show_inodes=dos
1120 is the same as specifying:
1121 -o show_inodes=all
1122 Note that the "posix" and "all" options will show all directory
1123 names, BUT the link count on each directory inode entry is set to 1,
1124 due to Linux not supporting directory hard links. This may well
1125 confuse some userspace applications, since the directory names will
1126 have the same inode numbers. Thus it is NOT advisable to use the
1127 "posix" or "all" options. We provide them only for completeness sake.
1128 - Add copies of allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size to
1129 the ntfs inode structure and set them up in
1130 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). These reflect the unnamed data attribute
1131 for files and the index allocation attribute for directories.
1132 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs inode for
1133 $BITMAP attribute of large directories and set them up in
1134 inode.c::ntfs_read_inode().
1135 - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs volume for
1136 $BITMAP attribute of $MFT and set them up in
1137 super.c::load_system_files().
1138 - Parse deprecated ntfs driver options (iocharset, show_sys_files,
1139 posix, and utf8) and tell user what the new options to use are. Note
1140 we still do support them but they will be removed with kernel 2.7.x.
1141 - Change all occurences of integer long long printf formatting to hex
1142 as printk() will not support long long integer format if/when the
1143 div64 patch goes into the kernel.
1144 - Make slab caches have stable names and change the names to what they
1145 were intended to be. These changes are required/made possible by the
1146 new slab cache name handling which removes the length limitation by
1147 requiring the caller of kmem_cache_create() to supply a stable name
1148 which is then referenced but not copied.
1149 - Rename run_list structure to run_list_element and create a new
1150 run_list structure containing a pointer to a run_list_element
1151 structure and a read/write semaphore. Adapt all users of runlists
1152 to new scheme and take and release the lock as needed. This fixes a
1153 nasty race as the run_list changes even when inodes are locked for
1154 reading and even when the inode isn't locked at all, so we really
1155 needed the serialization. We use a semaphore rather than a spinlock
1156 as memory allocations can sleep and doing everything GFP_ATOMIC
1157 would be silly.
1158 - Cleanup read_inode() removing all code checking for lowest_vcn != 0.
1159 This can never happen due to the nature of lookup_attr() and how we
1160 support attribute lists. If it did happen it would imply the inode
1161 being corrupt.
1162 - Check for lowest_vcn != 0 in ntfs_read_inode() and mark the inode as
1163 bad if found.
1164 - Update to 2.5.6-pre2 changes in struct address_space.
1165 - Use parent_ino() when accessing d_parent inode number in dir.c.
1166 - Import Sourceforge CVS repository into BitKeeper repository:
1167 http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-tng-2.5
1168 - Update fs/Makefile, fs/Config.help, fs/Config.in, and
1169 Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for NTFS TNG.
1170 - Create kernel configuration option controlling whether debugging
1171 is enabled or not.
1172 - Add the required export of end_buffer_io_sync() from the patches
1173 directory to the kernel code.
1174 - Update inode.c::ntfs_show_options() with show_inodes mount option.
1175 - Update errors mount option.
1176
1177tng-0.0.7 - 13/02/2002 - The driver is now feature complete for read-only!
1178
1179 - Cleanup mft.c and it's debug/error output in particular. Fix a minor
1180 bug in mapping of extent inodes. Update all the comments to fit all
1181 the recent code changes.
1182 - Modify vcn_to_lcn() to cope with entirely unmapped runlists.
1183 - Cleanups in compress.c, mostly comments and folding help.
1184 - Implement attrib.c::map_run_list() as a generic helper.
1185 - Make compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() use map_run_list()
1186 thus making code shorter and enabling attribute list support.
1187 - Cleanup incorrect use of [su]64 with %L printf format specifier in
1188 all source files. Type casts to [unsigned] long long added to correct
1189 the mismatches (important for architectures which have long long not
1190 being 64 bits).
1191 - Merge async io completion handlers for directory indexes and $MFT
1192 data into one by setting the index_block_size{_bits} of the ntfs
1193 inode for $MFT to the mft_record_size{_bits} of the ntfs_volume.
1194 - Cleanup aops.c, update comments.
1195 - Make ntfs_file_get_block() use map_run_list() so all files now
1196 support attribute lists.
1197 - Make ntfs_dir_readpage() almost verbatim copy of
1198 block_read_full_page() by using ntfs_file_get_block() with only real
1199 difference being the use of our own async io completion handler
1200 rather than the default one, thus reducing the amount of code and
1201 automatically enabling attribute list support for directory indices.
1202 - Fix bug in load_attribute_list() - forgot to call brelse in error
1203 code path.
1204 - Change parameters to find_attr() and lookup_attr(). We no longer
1205 pass in the upcase table and its length. These can be gotten from
1206 ctx->ntfs_ino->vol->upcase{_len}. Update all callers.
1207 - Cleanups in attrib.c.
1208 - Implement merging of runlists, attrib.c::merge_run_lists() and its
1209 helpers. (Richard Russon)
1210 - Attribute lists part 2, attribute extents and multi part runlists:
1211 enable proper support for LCN_RL_NOT_MAPPED and automatic mapping of
1212 further runlist parts via attrib.c::map_run_list().
1213 - Tiny endianness bug fix in decompress_mapping_pairs().
1214
1215tng-0.0.6 - Encrypted directories, bug fixes, cleanups, debugging enhancements.
1216
1217 - Enable encrypted directories. (Their index root is marked encrypted
1218 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1219 encrypted.)
1220 - Fix bug in NInoBmpNonResident() macro. (Cut and paste error.)
1221 - Enable $Extend system directory. Most (if not all) extended system
1222 files do not have unnamed data attributes so ntfs_read_inode() had to
1223 special case them but that is ok, as the special casing recovery
1224 happens inside an error code path so there is zero slow down in the
1225 normal fast path. The special casing is done by introducing a new
1226 function inode.c::ntfs_is_extended_system_file() which checks if any
1227 of the hard links in the inode point to $Extend as being their parent
1228 directory and if they do we assume this is an extended system file.
1229 - Create a sysctl/proc interface to allow {dis,en}abling of debug output
1230 when compiled with -DDEBUG. Default is debug messages to be disabled.
1231 To enable them, one writes a non-zero value to /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug
1232 (if /proc is enabled) or uses sysctl(2) to effect the same (if sysctl
1233 interface is enabled). Inspired by old ntfs driver.
1234 - Add debug_msgs insmod/kernel boot parameter to set whether debug
1235 messages are {dis,en}abled. This is useful to enable debug messages
1236 during ntfs initialization and is the only way to activate debugging
1237 when the sysctl interface is not enabled.
1238 - Cleanup debug output in various places.
1239 - Remove all dollar signs ($) from the source (except comments) to
1240 enable compilation on architectures whose gcc compiler does not
1241 support dollar signs in the names of variables/constants. Attribute
1242 types now start with AT_ instead of $ and $I30 is now just I30.
1243 - Cleanup ntfs_lookup() and add consistency check of sequence numbers.
1244 - Load complete runlist for $MFT/$BITMAP during mount and cleanup
1245 access functions. This means we now cope with $MFT/$BITMAP being
1246 spread accross several mft records.
1247 - Disable modification of mft_zone_multiplier on remount. We can always
1248 reenable this later on if we really want to, but we will need to make
1249 sure we readjust the mft_zone size / layout accordingly.
1250
1251tng-0.0.5 - Modernize for 2.5.x and further in line-ing with Al Viro's comments.
1252
1253 - Use sb_set_blocksize() instead of set_blocksize() and verify the
1254 return value.
1255 - Use sb_bread() instead of bread() throughout.
1256 - Add index_vcn_size{_bits} to ntfs_inode structure to store the size
1257 of a directory index block vcn. Apply resulting simplifications in
1258 dir.c everywhere.
1259 - Fix a small bug somewhere (but forgot what it was).
1260 - Change ntfs_{debug,error,warning} to enable gcc to do type checking
1261 on the printf-format parameter list and fix bugs reported by gcc
1262 as a result. (Richard Russon)
1263 - Move inode allocation strategy to Al's new stuff but maintain the
1264 divorce of ntfs_inode from struct inode. To achieve this we have two
1265 separate slab caches, one for big ntfs inodes containing a struct
1266 inode and pure ntfs inodes and at the same time fix some faulty
1267 error code paths in ntfs_read_inode().
1268 - Show mount options in proc (inode.c::ntfs_show_options()).
1269
1270tng-0.0.4 - Big changes, getting in line with Al Viro's comments.
1271
1272 - Modified (un)map_mft_record functions to be common for read and write
1273 case. To specify which is which, added extra parameter at front of
1274 parameter list. Pass either READ or WRITE to this, each has the
1275 obvious meaning.
1276 - General cleanups to allow for easier folding in vi.
1277 - attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() now accepts the old runlist
1278 argument, and invokes attrib.c::merge_run_lists() to merge the old
1279 and the new runlists.
1280 - Removed attrib.c::find_first_attr().
1281 - Implemented loading of attribute list and complete runlist for $MFT.
1282 This means we now cope with $MFT being spread across several mft
1283 records.
1284 - Adapt to 2.5.2-pre9 and the changed create_empty_buffers() syntax.
1285 - Adapt major/minor/kdev_t/[bk]devname stuff to new 2.5.x kernels.
1286 - Make ntfs_volume be allocated via kmalloc() instead of using a slab
1287 cache. There are too little ntfs_volume structures at any one time
1288 to justify a private slab cache.
1289 - Fix bogus kmap() use in async io completion. Now use kmap_atomic().
1290 Use KM_BIO_IRQ on advice from IRC/kernel...
1291 - Use ntfs_map_page() in map_mft_record() and create ->readpage method
1292 for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated
1293 address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also
1294 removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch.
1295 - Fix a bug where kfree() was used insted of ntfs_free().
1296 - Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of
1297 vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers.
1298 - Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode.
1299 - Add mft record number and sequence number to ntfs_inode. Stop using
1300 i_ino and i_generation for in-driver purposes.
1301 - Implement attrib.c::merge_run_lists(). (Richard Russon)
1302 - Remove use of proper inodes by extent inodes. Move i_ino and
1303 i_generation to ntfs_inode to do this. Apply simplifications that
1304 result and remove iget_no_wait(), etc.
1305 - Pass ntfs_inode everywhere in the driver (used to be struct inode).
1306 - Add reference counting in ntfs_inode for the ntfs inode itself and
1307 for the mapped mft record.
1308 - Extend mft record mapping so we can (un)map extent mft records (new
1309 functions (un)map_extent_mft_record), and so mappings are reference
1310 counted and don't have to happen twice if already mapped - just ref
1311 count increases.
1312 - Add -o iocharset as alias to -o nls for backwards compatibility.
1313 - The latest core patch is now tiny. In fact just a single additional
1314 export is necessary over the base kernel.
1315
1316tng-0.0.3 - Cleanups, enhancements, bug fixes.
1317
1318 - Work on attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() to detect base extents
1319 and setup the runlist appropriately using knowledge provided by the
1320 sizes in the base attribute record.
1321 - Balance the get_/put_attr_search_ctx() calls so we don't leak memory
1322 any more.
1323 - Introduce ntfs_malloc_nofs() and ntfs_free() to allocate/free a single
1324 page or use vmalloc depending on the amount of memory requested.
1325 - Cleanup error output. The __FUNCTION__ "(): " is now added
1326 automatically. Introduced a new header file debug.h to support this
1327 and also moved ntfs_debug() function into it.
1328 - Make reading of compressed files more intelligent and especially get
1329 rid of the vmalloc_nofs() from readpage(). This now uses per CPU
1330 buffers (allocated at first mount with cluster size <= 4kiB and
1331 deallocated on last umount with cluster size <= 4kiB), and
1332 asynchronous io for the compressed data using a list of buffer heads.
1333 Er, we use synchronous io as async io only works on whole pages
1334 covered by buffers and not on individual buffer heads...
1335 - Bug fix for reading compressed files with sparse compression blocks.
1336
1337tng-0.0.2 - Now handles larger/fragmented/compressed volumes/files/dirs.
1338
1339 - Fixed handling of directories when cluster size exceeds index block
1340 size.
1341 - Hide DOS only name space directory entries from readdir() but allow
1342 them in lookup(). This should fix the problem that Linux doesn't
1343 support directory hard links, while still allowing access to entries
1344 via their short file name. This also has the benefit of mimicking
1345 what Windows users are used to, so it is the ideal solution.
1346 - Implemented sync_page everywhere so no more hangs in D state when
1347 waiting for a page.
1348 - Stop using bforget() in favour of brelse().
1349 - Stop locking buffers unnecessarily.
1350 - Implemented compressed files (inode->mapping contains uncompressed
1351 data, raw compressed data is currently bread() into a vmalloc()ed
1352 memory buffer).
1353 - Enable compressed directories. (Their index root is marked compressed
1354 to indicate that new files in that directory should be created
1355 compressed.)
1356 - Use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in the ntfs_error and ntfs_warning
1357 functions. (Thanks to Will Dyson for pointing this out.)
1358 - Moved the ntfs_inode and ntfs_volume (the former ntfs_inode_info and
1359 ntfs_sb_info) out of the common inode and super_block structures and
1360 started using the generic_ip and generic_sbp pointers instead. This
1361 makes ntfs entirely private with respect to the kernel tree.
1362 - Detect compiler version and abort with error message if gcc less than
1363 2.96 is used.
1364 - Fix bug in name comparison function in unistr.c.
1365 - Implement attribute lists part 1, the infrastructure: search contexts
1366 and operations, find_external_attr(), lookup_attr()) and make the
1367 code use the infrastructure.
1368 - Fix stupid buffer overflow bug that became apparent on larger run
1369 list containing attributes.
1370 - Fix bugs in readdir() that became apparent on larger directories.
1371
1372 The driver is now really useful and survives the test
1373 find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
1374 without any error messages on a over 1GiB sized partition with >16k
1375 files on it, including compressed files and directories and many files
1376 and directories with attribute lists.
1377
1378tng-0.0.1 - The first useful version.
1379
1380 - Added ntfs_lookup().
1381 - Added default upcase generation and handling.
1382 - Added compile options to be shown on module init.
1383 - Many bug fixes that were "hidden" before.
1384 - Update to latest kernel.
1385 - Added ntfs_readdir().
1386 - Added file operations for mmap(), read(), open() and llseek(). We just
1387 use the generic ones. The whole point of going through implementing
1388 readpage() methods and where possible get_block() call backs is that
1389 this allows us to make use of the generic high level methods provided
1390 by the kernel.
1391
1392 The driver is now actually useful! Yey. (-: It undoubtedly has got bugs
1393 though and it doesn't implement accesssing compressed files yet. Also,
1394 accessing files with attribute list attributes is not implemented yet
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001395 either. But for small or simple filesystems it should work and allow
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001396 you to list directories, use stat on directory entries and the file
1397 system, open, read, mmap and llseek around in files. A big mile stone
1398 has been reached!
1399
1400tng-0.0.0 - Initial version tag.
1401
1402 Initial driver implementation. The driver can mount and umount simple
Anton Altaparmakovc002f422005-02-03 12:02:56 +00001403 NTFS filesystems (i.e. ones without attribute lists in the system
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001404 files). If the mount fails there might be problems in the error handling
1405 code paths, so be warned. Otherwise it seems to be loading the system
1406 files nicely and the mft record read mapping/unmapping seems to be
1407 working nicely, too. Proof of inode metadata in the page cache and non-
1408 resident file unnamed stream data in the page cache concepts is thus
1409 complete.