linux-ntfs-dev — Development discussions and bug reports.

[Szabolcs S. <sz...@tu...>]

Greetings,

We are happy to announce a release candidate which includes minor 
and major bug fixes, and enhancements as follows:

ntfs-3g: fixed device path canonicalization for use by devmapper
ntfs-3g: fixed setting DOS names when defined with lower-case chars
ntfs-3g: fixed attribute flags controlling recursive writes
ntfs-3g: fixed compilation on OpenIndiana
ntfs-3g: fixed options parsing on OSes with no extended attributes
ntfs-3g: fixed relatime as a default mount option
ntfs-3g: fixed endless recursion when MFT extents are described by themselves
ntfs-3g: fixed the description of inherit option
ntfs-3g: fixed overwriting a truncated file
ntfs-3g: fixed truncation of DOS file names (12 ntfschars, not 12 utf8 chars)
ntfs-3g: fixed the setting of attributes by secaudit (index not synced)
ntfs-3g: faster compression
ntfs-3g: new option delay_mtime to delay updates of mtime+ctime
ntfsfix: new option to clear the list of bad sectors
ntfsfix: fixed compilation on Sparc
ntfsfix: fixed a bug causing a segmentation violation
ntfsfix: repair self-located MFT data bug
ntfsresize: implemented expanding runlists
ntfsresize: updated the description of the -f option
ntfsresize: expand an NTFS volume downwards
ntfsclone: backup bootsector not be to accounted for
ntfsclone: creating/restoring a metadata image
ntfsundelete: try to recover the file name when undeleting
ntfsundelete: use inode number to name unnamed files
library: fixed several bad returns in error conditions
library: enabled getting the sector size on FreeBSD and MacOSX
build: fixed "make libs" to only build libraries

The release candidate is available at

  http://www.tuxera.com/

Best regards,

  Tuxera Open Source Team