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We then just need to make sure + ntfs_readpage/writepage/truncate interoperate properly with us. + UPDATE: The above is all ok as it is due to i_sem held. The only + thing that needs to be checked is ntfs_writepage() which does not + hold i_sem. It cannot change i_size but it needs to cope with a + concurrent i_size change. + - Implement mft.c::sync_mft_mirror_umount(). We currently will just + leave the volume dirty on umount if the final iput(vol->mft_ino) + causes a write of any mirrored mft records due to the mft mirror + inode having been discarded already. Whether this can actually ever + happen is unclear however so it is worth waiting until someone hits + the problem. + - Enable the code for setting the NT4 compatibility flag when we start + making NTFS 1.2 specific modifications. + +2.1.23-WIP + + - Add printk rate limiting for ntfs_warning() and ntfs_error() when + compiled without debug. This avoids a possible denial of service + attack. Thanks to Carl-Daniel Hailfinger from SuSE for pointing this + out. + +2.1.22 - Many bug and race fixes and error handling improvements. + + - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate(). + - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to return an error code + instead of void and provide a helper ntfs_truncate_vfs() for the + vfs ->truncate method. + - Add a new ntfs inode flag NInoTruncateFailed() and modify + fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate() to set and clear it appropriately. + - Fix min_size and max_size definitions in ATTR_DEF structure in + fs/ntfs/layout.h to be signed. + - Add attribute definition handling helpers to fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]: + ntfs_attr_size_bounds_check(), ntfs_attr_can_be_non_resident(), and + ntfs_attr_can_be_resident(), which in turn use the new private helper + ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef(). + - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty(), take the + mapping->private_lock around the dirtying of the buffer heads + analagous to the way it is done in __set_page_dirty_buffers(). + - Ensure the mft record size does not exceed the PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at + mount time as this cannot work with the current implementation. + - Check for location of attribute name and improve error handling in + general in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() and friends. + - In fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage(), if the page is fully outside + i_size, i.e. race with truncate, invalidate the buffers on the page + so that they become freeable and hence the page does not leak. + - Remove unused function fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_merge(). (Adrian + Bunk) + - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_find() that resulted in + a NULL pointer dereference in the error code path when a corrupt + attribute was found. (Thanks to Domen Puncer for the bug report.) + - Add MODULE_VERSION() to fs/ntfs/super.c. + - Make several functions and variables static. (Adrian Bunk) + - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() so it allocates + buffers for the page if they are not present and then marks the + buffers belonging to the ntfs record dirty. This causes the buffers + to become busy and hence they are safe from removal until the page + has been written out. + - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find() in the + error handling code path that resulted in a BUG() due to trying to + unmap an extent mft record when the mapping of it had failed and it + thus was not mapped. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for the bug report.) + - Drop the runlist lock after the vcn has been read in + fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::__ntfs_cluster_free(). + - Rewrite handling of multi sector transfer errors. We now do not set + PageError() when such errors are detected in the async i/o handler + fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(). All users of mst + protected attributes now check the magic of each ntfs record as they + use it and act appropriately. This has the effect of making errors + granular per ntfs record rather than per page which solves the case + where we cannot access any of the ntfs records in a page when a + single one of them had an mst error. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for + the bug report.) + - Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date() + where we failed to release i_sem on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode. + - Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup(). + - Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e. + fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(), + and write_mft_record_nolock(). From now on we require that the + complete runlist for the mft mirror is always mapped into memory. + - Add creation of buffers to fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(). + - Improve error handling in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}_block(). + - Cleanup fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_{read,write}page() since we know that a + resident attribute will be smaller than a page which makes the code + simpler. Also make the code more tolerant to concurrent ->truncate. + +2.1.21 - Fix some races and bugs, rewrite mft write code, add mft allocator. + + - Implement extent mft record deallocation + fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_extent_mft_record_free(). + - Splitt runlist related functions off from attrib.[hc] to runlist.[hc]. + - Add vol->mft_data_pos and initialize it at mount time. + - Rename init_runlist() to ntfs_init_runlist(), ntfs_vcn_to_lcn() to + ntfs_rl_vcn_to_lcn(), decompress_mapping_pairs() to + ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress(), ntfs_merge_runlists() to + ntfs_runlists_merge() and adapt all callers. + - Add fs/ntfs/runlist.[hc]::ntfs_get_nr_significant_bytes(), + ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs(), ntfs_write_significant_bytes(), + and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build(), adapted from libntfs. + - Make fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.c::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() not + static and add a declaration for it to lcnalloc.h. + - Add fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.h::ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl() which is a static + inline wrapper for ntfs_cluster_free_from_rl_nolock() which takes the + cluster bitmap lock for the duration of the call. + - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_record_resize(). + - Implement the equivalent of memset() for an ntfs attribute in + fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_attr_set() and switch + fs/ntfs/logfile.c::ntfs_empty_logfile() to using it. + - Remove unnecessary casts from LCN_* constants. + - Implement fs/ntfs/runlist.c::ntfs_rl_truncate_nolock(). + - Add MFT_RECORD_OLD as a copy of MFT_RECORD in fs/ntfs/layout.h and + change MFT_RECORD to contain the NTFS 3.1+ specific fields. + - Add a helper function fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which + marks all buffers belonging to an ntfs record dirty, followed by + marking the page the ntfs record is in dirty and also marking the vfs + inode containing the ntfs record dirty (I_DIRTY_PAGES). + - Switch fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to using the + new helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and remove the no + longer needed fs/ntfs/index.[hc]::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty(). + - Move ntfs_{un,}map_page() from ntfs.h to aops.h and fix resulting + include errors. + - Move the typedefs for runlist_element and runlist from types.h to + runlist.h and fix resulting include errors. + - Remove unused {__,}format_mft_record() from fs/ntfs/mft.c. + - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::__mark_mft_record_dirty() to use the helper + mark_ntfs_record_dirty() which also changes the behaviour in that we + now set the buffers belonging to the mft record dirty as well as the + page itself. + - Update fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and sync_mft_mirror() + to cope with the fact that there now are dirty buffers in mft pages. + - Update fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode() to also use the helper + mark_ntfs_record_dirty() and thus to set the buffers belonging to the + mft record dirty as well as the page itself. + - Fix compiler warnings on x86-64 in fs/ntfs/dir.c. (Randy Dunlap, + slightly modified by me) + - Add fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record() which fails with -EALREADY if + the mft record is already locked and otherwise behaves the same way + as fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_mft_record(). + - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() so that it only + writes the mft record if the buffers belonging to it are dirty. + Otherwise we assume that it was written out by other means already. + - Attempting to write outside initialized size is _not_ a bug so remove + the bug check from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(). It is in + fact required to write outside initialized size when preparing to + extend the initialized size. + - Map the page instead of using page_address() before writing to it in + fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mft_writepage(). + - Provide exclusion between opening an inode / mapping an mft record + and accessing the mft record in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() + by setting the page not uptodate throughout ntfs_mft_writepage(). + - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() + to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied. + - Add the helper fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_may_write_mft_record() which + checks if an mft record may be written out safely obtaining any + necessary locks in the process. This is used by + fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(). + - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to also work for + writing mft records and improve its error handling in the process. + Now if any of the records in the page fail to be written out, all + other records will be written out instead of aborting completely. + - Remove ntfs_mft_aops and update all users to use ntfs_mst_aops. + - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to set the + ntfs_mst_aops for all inodes which are NInoMstProtected() and + ntfs_aops for all other inodes. + - Rename fs/ntfs/mft.c::sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() to + ntfs_sync_mft_mirror{,_umount}() and change their parameters so they + no longer require an ntfs inode to be present. Update all callers. + - Cleanup the error handling in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(). + - Clear the page uptodate flag in fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror() + to ensure noone can see the page whilst the mst fixups are applied. + - Remove the no longer needed fs/ntfs/mft.c::ntfs_mft_writepage() and + fs/ntfs/mft.c::try_map_mft_record(). + - Fix callers of fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to call it + with the ntfs inode which contains the page rather than the ntfs + inode the mft record of which is in the page. + - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by moving the + index inode bitmap inode release code from there to + fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_clear_big_inode(). (Thanks to Christoph + Hellwig for spotting this.) + - Fix race condition in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode() by taking the + inode semaphore around the code that sets ni->itype.index.bmp_ino to + NULL and reorganize the code to optimize it a bit. (Thanks to + Christoph Hellwig for spotting this.) + - Modify fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty() to no longer take the + ntfs inode as a parameter as this is confusing and misleading and the + needed ntfs inode is available via NTFS_I(page->mapping->host). + Adapt all callers to this change. + - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::write_mft_record_nolock() and + fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() to only check the dirty state + of the first buffer in a record and to take this as the ntfs record + dirty state. We cannot look at the dirty state for subsequent + buffers because we might be racing with + fs/ntfs/aops.c::mark_ntfs_record_dirty(). + - Move the static inline ntfs_init_big_inode() from fs/ntfs/inode.c to + inode.h and make fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_init_inode() non-static and + add a declaration for it to inode.h. Fix some compilation issues + that resulted due to #includes and header file interdependencies. + - Simplify setup of i_mode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode(). + - Add helpers fs/ntfs/layout.h::MK_MREF() and MK_LE_MREF(). + - Modify fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() to only verify the mft + record sequence number if it is specified (i.e. not zero). + - Add fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::ntfs_mft_record_alloc() and various helper + functions used by it. + - Update Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt with instructions on how to + use the Device-Mapper driver with NTFS ftdisk/LDM raid. This removes + the linear raid problem with the Software RAID / MD driver when one + or more of the devices has an odd number of sectors. + +2.1.20 - Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release. + + - Fix stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_attr_reinit_search_ctx() + where we did not clear ctx->al_entry but it was still set due to + changes in ntfs_attr_lookup() and ntfs_external_attr_find() in + particular. + - Fix another stupid bug in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::ntfs_external_attr_find() + where we forgot to unmap the extent mft record when we had finished + enumerating an attribute which caused a bug check to trigger when the + VFS calls ->clear_inode. + +2.1.19 - Many cleanups, improvements, and a minor bug fix. + + - Update ->setattr (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) to refuse to + change the uid, gid, and mode of an inode as we do not support NTFS + ACLs yet. + - Remove BKL use from ntfs_setattr() syncing up with the rest of the + kernel. + - Get rid of the ugly transparent union in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() + and ntfs_filldir() as per suggestion from Al Viro. + - Change '\0' and L'\0' to simply 0 as per advice from Linus Torvalds. + - Update ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) to check if the + inode size has changed and to only output an error if so. + - Rename fs/ntfs/attrib.h::attribute_value_length() to ntfs_attr_size(). + - Add le{16,32,64} as well as sle{16,32,64} data types to + fs/ntfs/types.h. + - Change ntfschar to be le16 instead of u16 in fs/ntfs/types.h. + - Add le versions of VCN, LCN, and LSN called leVCN, leLCN, and leLSN, + respectively, to fs/ntfs/types.h. + - Update endianness conversion macros in fs/ntfs/endian.h to use the + new types as appropriate. + - Do proper type casting when using sle64_to_cpup() in fs/ntfs/dir.c + and index.c. + - Add leMFT_REF data type to fs/ntfs/layout.h. + - Update all NTFS header files with the new little endian data types. + Affected files are fs/ntfs/layout.h, logfile.h, and time.h. + - Do proper type casting when using ntfs_is_*_recordp() in + fs/ntfs/logfile.c, mft.c, and super.c. + - Fix all the sparse bitwise warnings. Had to change all the typedef + enums storing little endian values to simple enums plus a typedef for + the datatype to make sparse happy. + - Fix a bug found by the new sparse bitwise warnings where the default + upcase table was defined as a pointer to wchar_t rather than ntfschar + in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h and super.c. + - Change {const_,}cpu_to_le{16,32}(0) to just 0 as suggested by Al Viro. + +2.1.18 - Fix scheduling latencies at mount time as well as an endianness bug. + + - Remove vol->nr_mft_records as it was pretty meaningless and optimize + the calculation of total/free inodes as used by statfs(). + - Fix scheduling latencies in ntfs_fill_super() by dropping the BKL + because the code itself is using the ntfs_lock semaphore which + provides safe locking. (Ingo Molnar) + - Fix a potential bug in fs/ntfs/mft.c::map_extent_mft_record() that + could occur in the future for when we start closing/freeing extent + inodes if we don't set base_ni->ext.extent_ntfs_inos to NULL after + we free it. + - Rename {find,lookup}_attr() to ntfs_attr_{find,lookup}() as well as + find_external_attr() to ntfs_external_attr_find() to cleanup the + namespace a bit and to be more consistent with libntfs. + - Rename {{re,}init,get,put}_attr_search_ctx() to + ntfs_attr_{{re,}init,get,put}_search_ctx() as well as the type + attr_search_context to ntfs_attr_search_ctx. + - Force use of ntfs_attr_find() in ntfs_attr_lookup() when searching + for the attribute list attribute itself. + - Fix endianness bug in ntfs_external_attr_find(). + - Change ntfs_{external_,}attr_find() to return 0 on success, -ENOENT + if the attribute is not found, and -EIO on real error. In the case + of -ENOENT, the search context is updated to describe the attribute + before which the attribute being searched for would need to be + inserted if such an action were to be desired and in the case of + ntfs_external_attr_find() the search context is also updated to + indicate the attribute list entry before which the attribute list + entry of the attribute being searched for would need to be inserted + if such an action were to be desired. Also make ntfs_find_attr() + static and remove its prototype from attrib.h as it is not used + anywhere other than attrib.c. Update ntfs_attr_lookup() and all + callers of ntfs_{external,}attr_{find,lookup}() for the new return + values. + - Minor cleanup of fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_init_locked_inode(). + +2.1.17 - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths and other updates. + + - Implement bitmap modification code (fs/ntfs/bitmap.[hc]). This + includes functions to set/clear a single bit or a run of bits. + - Add fs/ntfs/attrib.[hc]::ntfs_find_vcn() which returns the locked + runlist element containing a particular vcn. It also takes care of + mapping any needed runlist fragments. + - Implement cluster (de-)allocation code (fs/ntfs/lcnalloc.[hc]). + - Load attribute definition table from $AttrDef at mount time. + - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths involving (de)allocation of + the default and volume upcase tables. + - Remove ntfs_nr_mounts as it is no longer used. + +2.1.16 - Implement access time updates, file sync, async io, and read/writev. + + - Add support for readv/writev and aio_read/aio_write (fs/ntfs/file.c). + This is done by setting the appropriate file operations pointers to + the generic helper functions provided by mm/filemap.c. + - Implement fsync, fdatasync, and msync both for files (fs/ntfs/file.c) + and directories (fs/ntfs/dir.c). + - Add support for {a,m,c}time updates to inode.c::ntfs_write_inode(). + Note, except for the root directory and any other system files opened + by the user, the system files will not have their access times + updated as they are only accessed at the inode level an hence the + file level functions which cause the times to be updated are never + invoked. + +2.1.15 - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write. + + - Add new element itype.index.collation_rule to the ntfs inode + structure and set it appropriately in ntfs_read_locked_inode(). + - Implement a new inode type "index" to allow efficient access to the + indices found in various system files and adapt inode handling + accordingly (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]). An index inode is essentially an + attribute inode (NInoAttr() is true) with an attribute type of + AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION. As such, it is no longer allowed to call + ntfs_attr_iget() with an attribute type of AT_INDEX_ALLOCATION as + there would be no way to distinguish between normal attribute inodes + and index inodes. The function to obtain an index inode is + ntfs_index_iget() and it uses the helper function + ntfs_read_locked_index_inode(). Note, we do not overload + ntfs_attr_iget() as indices consist of multiple attributes so using + ntfs_attr_iget() to obtain an index inode would be confusing. + - Ensure that there is no overflow when doing page->index << + PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT by casting page->index to s64 in fs/ntfs/aops.c. + - Use atomic kmap instead of kmap() in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page() + and ntfs_read_block(). + - Use case sensitive attribute lookups instead of case insensitive ones. + - Lock all page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes while + accessing them to ensure we never see corrupt data while the page is + under writeout. + - Add framework for generic ntfs collation (fs/ntfs/collation.[hc]). + We have ntfs_is_collation_rule_supported() to check if the collation + rule you want to use is supported and ntfs_collation() which actually + collates two data items. We currently only support COLLATION_BINARY + and COLLATION_NTOFS_ULONG but support for other collation rules will + be added as the need arises. + - Add a new type, ntfs_index_context, to allow retrieval of an index + entry using the corresponding index key. To get an index context, + use ntfs_index_ctx_get() and to release it, use ntfs_index_ctx_put(). + This also adds a new slab cache for the index contexts. To lookup a + key in an index inode, use ntfs_index_lookup(). After modifying an + index entry, call ntfs_index_entry_flush_dcache_page() followed by + ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to ensure the changes are written out + to disk. For details see fs/ntfs/index.[hc]. Note, at present, if + an index entry is in the index allocation attribute rather than the + index root attribute it will not be written out (you will get a + warning message about discarded changes instead). + - Load the quota file ($Quota) and check if quota tracking is enabled + and if so, mark the quotas out of date. This causes windows to + rescan the volume on boot and update all quota entries. + - Add a set_page_dirty address space operation for ntfs_m[fs]t_aops. + It is simply set to __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() to make sure that + running set_page_dirty() on a page containing mft/ntfs records will + not affect the dirty state of the page buffers. + - Add fs/ntfs/index.c::__ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() which sets all + buffers that are inside the ntfs record in the page dirty after which + it sets the page dirty. This allows ->writepage to only write the + dirty index records rather than having to write all the records in + the page. Modify fs/ntfs/index.h::ntfs_index_entry_mark_dirty() to + use this rather than __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(). + - Implement fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block() which enables the + writing of page cache pages belonging to mst protected attributes + like the index allocation attribute in directory indices and other + indices like $Quota/$Q, etc. This means that the quota is now marked + out of date on all volumes rather than only on ones where the quota + defaults entry is in the index root attribute of the $Quota/$Q index. + +2.1.14 - Fix an NFSd caused deadlock reported by several users. + + - Modify fs/ntfs/ntfs_readdir() to copy the index root attribute value + to a buffer so that we can put the search context and unmap the mft + record before calling the filldir() callback. We need to do this + because of NFSd which calls ->lookup() from its filldir callback() + and this causes NTFS to deadlock as ntfs_lookup() maps the mft record + of the directory and since ntfs_readdir() has got it mapped already + ntfs_lookup() deadlocks. + +2.1.13 - Enable overwriting of resident files and housekeeping of system files. + + - Implement writing of mft records (fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]), which includes + keeping the mft mirror in sync with the mft when mirrored mft records + are written. The functions are write_mft_record{,_nolock}(). The + implementation is quite rudimentary for now with lots of things not + implemented yet but I am not sure any of them can actually occur so + I will wait for people to hit each one and only then implement it. + - Commit open system inodes at umount time. This should make it + virtually impossible for sync_mft_mirror_umount() to ever be needed. + - Implement ->write_inode (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode()) for the + ntfs super operations. This gives us inode writing via the VFS inode + dirty code paths. Note: Access time updates are not implemented yet. + - Implement fs/ntfs/mft.[hc]::{,__}mark_mft_record_dirty() and make + fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and ntfs_commit_write() use it, thus + finally enabling resident file overwrite! (-8 This also includes a + placeholder for ->writepage (ntfs_mft_writepage()), which for now + just redirties the page and returns. Also, at umount time, we for + now throw away all mft data page cache pages after the last call to + ntfs_commit_inode() in the hope that all inodes will have been + written out by then and hence no dirty (meta)data will be lost. We + also check for this case and emit an error message telling the user + to run chkdsk. + - Use set_page_writeback() and end_page_writeback() in the resident + attribute code path of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() otherwise + the radix-tree tag PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the + page is clean. + - Implement ntfs_mft_writepage() so it now checks if any of the mft + records in the page are dirty and if so redirties the page and + returns. Otherwise it just returns (after doing set_page_writeback(), + unlock_page(), end_page_writeback() or the radix-tree tag + PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY remains set even though the page is clean), thus + alowing the VM to do with the page as it pleases. Also, at umount + time, now only throw away dirty mft (meta)data pages if dirty inodes + are present and ask the user to email us if they see this happening. + - Add functions ntfs_{clear,set}_volume_flags(), to modify the volume + information flags (fs/ntfs/super.c). + - Mark the volume dirty when (re)mounting read-write and mark it clean + when unmounting or remounting read-only. If any volume errors are + found, the volume is left marked dirty to force chkdsk to run. + - Add code to set the NT4 compatibility flag when (re)mounting + read-write for newer NTFS versions but leave it commented out for now + since we do not make any modifications that are NTFS 1.2 specific yet + and since setting this flag breaks Captive-NTFS which is not nice. + This code must be enabled once we start writing NTFS 1.2 specific + changes otherwise Windows NTFS driver might crash / cause corruption. + +2.1.12 - Fix the second fix to the decompression engine and some cleanups. + + - Add a new address space operations struct, ntfs_mst_aops, for mst + protected attributes. This is because the default ntfs_aops do not + make sense with mst protected data and were they to write anything to + such an attribute they would cause data corruption so we provide + ntfs_mst_aops which does not have any write related operations set. + - Cleanup dirty ntfs inode handling (fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]) which also + includes an adapted ntfs_commit_inode() and an implementation of + ntfs_write_inode() which for now just cleans dirty inodes without + writing them (it does emit a warning that this is happening). + - Undo the second decompression engine fix (see 2.1.9 release ChangeLog + entry) as it was only fixing a theoretical bug but at the same time + it badly broke the handling of sparse and uncompressed compression + blocks. + +2.1.11 - Driver internal cleanups. + + - Only build logfile.o if building the driver with read-write support. + - Really final white space cleanups. + - Use generic_ffs() instead of ffs() in logfile.c which allows the + log_page_size variable to be optimized by gcc into a constant. + - Rename uchar_t to ntfschar everywhere as uchar_t is unsigned 1-byte + char as defined by POSIX and as found on some systems. + +2.1.10 - Force read-only (re)mounting of volumes with unsupported volume flags. + + - Finish off the white space cleanups (remove trailing spaces, etc). + - Clean up ntfs_fill_super() and ntfs_read_inode_mount() by removing + the kludges around the first iget(). Instead of (re)setting ->s_op + we have the $MFT inode set up by explicit new_inode() / set ->i_ino / + insert_inode_hash() / call ntfs_read_inode_mount() directly. This + kills the need for second super_operations and allows to return error + from ntfs_read_inode_mount() without resorting to ugly "poisoning" + tricks. (Al Viro) + - Force read-only (re)mounting if any of the following bits are set in + the volume information flags: + VOLUME_IS_DIRTY, VOLUME_RESIZE_LOG_FILE, + VOLUME_UPGRADE_ON_MOUNT, VOLUME_DELETE_USN_UNDERWAY, + VOLUME_REPAIR_OBJECT_ID, VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK + To make this easier we define VOLUME_MUST_MOUNT_RO_MASK with all the + above bits set so the test is made easy. + +2.1.9 - Fix two bugs in decompression engine. + + - Fix a bug where we would not always detect that we have reached the + end of a compression block because we were ending at minus one byte + which is effectively the same as being at the end. The fix is to + check whether the uncompressed buffer has been fully filled and if so + we assume we have reached the end of the compression block. A big + thank you to Marcin GibuĊa for the bug report, the assistance in + tracking down the bug and testing the fix. + - Fix a possible bug where when a compressed read is truncated to the + end of the file, the offset inside the last page was not truncated. + +2.1.8 - Handle $MFT mirror and $LogFile, improve time handling, and cleanups. + + - Use get_bh() instead of manual atomic_inc() in fs/ntfs/compress.c. + - Modify fs/ntfs/time.c::ntfs2utc(), get_current_ntfs_time(), and + utc2ntfs() to work with struct timespec instead of time_t on the + Linux UTC time side thus preserving the full precision of the NTFS + time and only loosing up to 99 nano-seconds in the Linux UTC time. + - Move fs/ntfs/time.c to fs/ntfs/time.h and make the time functions + static inline. + - Remove unused ntfs_dirty_inode(). + - Cleanup super operations declaration in fs/ntfs/super.c. + - Wrap flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in #ifdef NTFS_RW. + - Add NInoTestSetFoo() and NInoTestClearFoo() macro magic to + fs/ntfs/inode.h and use it to declare NInoTest{Set,Clear}Dirty. + - Move typedefs for ntfs_attr and test_t from fs/ntfs/inode.c to + fs/ntfs/inode.h so they can be used elsewhere. + - Determine the mft mirror size as the number of mirrored mft records + and store it in ntfs_volume->mftmirr_size (fs/ntfs/super.c). + - Load the mft mirror at mount time and compare the mft records stored + in it to the ones in the mft. Force a read-only mount if the two do + not match (fs/ntfs/super.c). + - Fix type casting related warnings on 64-bit architectures. Thanks + to Meelis Roos for reporting them. + - Move %L to %ll as %L is floating point and %ll is integer which is + what we want. + - Read the journal ($LogFile) and determine if the volume has been + shutdown cleanly and force a read-only mount if not (fs/ntfs/super.c + and fs/ntfs/logfile.c). This is a little bit of a crude check in + that we only look at the restart areas and not at the actual log + records so that there will be a very small number of cases where we + think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean. This should + only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly and did not + have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o. + - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a read-write (re)mount + is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it with 0xff bytes to + ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale + journal after Linux has written to the volume. + +2.1.7 - Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes. + + - Set i_generation in the VFS inode from the seq_no of the NTFS inode. + - Make ntfs_lookup() NFS export safe, i.e. use d_splice_alias(), etc. + - Implement ->get_dentry() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_dentry() as the + default doesn't allow inode number 0 which is a valid inode on NTFS + and even if it did allow that it uses iget() instead of ntfs_iget() + which makes it useless for us. + - Implement ->get_parent() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_get_parent() as the + default just returns -EACCES which is not very useful. + - Define export operations (->s_export_op) for NTFS (ntfs_export_ops) + and set them up in the super block at mount time (super.c) this + allows mounted NTFS volumes to be exported via NFS. + - Add missing return -EOPNOTSUPP; in + fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write(). + - Enforce no atime and no dir atime updates at mount/remount time as + they are not implemented yet anyway. + - Move a few assignments in fs/ntfs/attrib.c::load_attribute_list() to + after a NULL check. Thanks to Dave Jones for pointing this out. + +2.1.6 - Fix minor bug in handling of compressed directories. + + - Fix bug in handling of compressed directories. A compressed + directory is not really compressed so when we set the ->i_blocks + field of a compressed directory inode we were setting it from the + non-existing field ni->itype.compressed.size which gave random + results... For directories we now always use ni->allocated_size. + +2.1.5 - Fix minor bug in attribute list attribute handling. + + - Fix bug in attribute list handling. Actually it is not as much a bug + as too much protection in that we were not allowing attribute lists + which waste space on disk while Windows XP clearly allows it and in + fact creates such attribute lists so our driver was failing. + - Update NTFS documentation ready for 2.6 kernel release. + +2.1.4 - Reduce compiler requirements. + + - Remove all uses of unnamed structs and unions in the driver to make + old and newer gcc versions happy. Makes it a bit uglier IMO but at + least people will stop hassling me about it. + +2.1.3 - Important bug fixes in corner cases. + + - super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Correct the check for 64-bit + clusters. (Philipp Thomas) + - attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a + multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs + Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>) + +2.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs. + + - Fix buggy free cluster and free inode determination logic. + +2.1.1 - Minor updates. + + - Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files. + - Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in + fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.ord>) + - Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc. + - Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write() + around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write. Adapt NTFS appropriately + in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() by using + kmap_atomic(KM_USER0). + +2.1.0 - First steps towards write support: implement file overwrite. + + - Add configuration option for developmental write support with an + appropriately scary configuration help text. + - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its + helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_block(). This enables mmap(2) based + overwriting of existing files on ntfs. Note: Resident files are + only written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so + avoid writing to files smaller than about 1kiB. + - Initial implementation of fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_write(), its + helper fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_prepare_nonresident_write() and their + counterparts, fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_write(), and + fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_commit_nonresident_write(), respectively. Also, + add generic_file_write() to the ntfs file operations (fs/ntfs/file.c). + This enables write(2) based overwriting of existing files on ntfs. + Note: As with mmap(2) based overwriting, resident files are only + written into memory, and not written out to disk at present, so avoid + writing to files smaller than about 1kiB. + - Implement ->truncate (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_truncate()) and + ->setattr() (fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_setattr()) inode operations for + files with the purpose of intercepting and aborting all i_size + changes which we do not support yet. ntfs_truncate() actually only + emits a warning message but AFAICS our interception of i_size changes + elsewhere means ntfs_truncate() never gets called for i_size changes. + It is only called from generic_file_write() when we fail in + ntfs_prepare_{,nonresident_}write() in order to discard any + instantiated buffers beyond i_size. Thus i_size is not actually + changed so our warning message is enough. Unfortunately it is not + possible to easily determine if i_size is being changed or not hence + we just emit an appropriately worded error message. + +2.0.25 - Small bug fixes and cleanups. + + - Unlock the page in an out of memory error code path in + fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block(). + - If fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_page() is called on an uptodate page, + just unlock the page and return. (This can happen due to ->writepage + clearing PageUptodate() during write out of MstProtected() + attributes. + - Remove leaked write code again. + +2.0.24 - Cleanups. + + - Treat BUG_ON() as ASSERT() not VERIFY(), i.e. do not use side effects + inside BUG_ON(). (Adam J. Richter) + - Split logical OR expressions inside BUG_ON() into individual BUG_ON() + calls for improved debugging. (Adam J. Richter) + - Add errors flag to the ntfs volume state, accessed via + NVol{,Set,Clear}Errors(vol). + - Do not allow read-write remounts of read-only volumes with errors. + - Clarify comment for ntfs file operation sendfile which was added by + Christoph Hellwig a while ago (just using generic_file_sendfile()) + to say that ntfs ->sendfile is only used for the case where the + source data is on the ntfs partition and the destination is + somewhere else, i.e. nothing we need to concern ourselves with. + - Add generic_file_write() as our ntfs file write operation. + +2.0.23 - Major bug fixes (races, deadlocks, non-i386 architectures). + + - Massive internal locking changes to mft record locking. Fixes lock + recursion and replaces the mrec_lock read/write semaphore with a + mutex. Also removes the now superfluous mft_count. This fixes several + race conditions and deadlocks, especially in the future write code. + - Fix ntfs over loopback for compressed files by adding an + optimization barrier. (gcc was screwing up otherwise ?) + - Miscellaneous cleanups all over the code and a fix or two in error + handling code paths. + Thanks go to Christoph Hellwig for pointing out the following two: + - Remove now unused function fs/ntfs/malloc.h::vmalloc_nofs(). + - Fix ntfs_free() for ia64 and parisc by checking for VMALLOC_END, too. + +2.0.22 - Cleanups, mainly to ntfs_readdir(), and use C99 initializers. + + - Change fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_reddir() to only read/write ->f_pos once + at entry/exit respectively. + - Use C99 initializers for structures. + - Remove unused variable blocks from fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block(). + +2.0.21 - Check for, and refuse to work with too large files/directories/volumes. + + - Limit volume size at mount time to 2TiB on architectures where + unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_ntfs_boot_sector()). + This is the most we can do without overflowing the 32-bit limit of + the block device size imposed on us by sb_bread() and sb_getblk() + for the time being. + - Limit file/directory size at open() time to 16TiB on architectures + where unsigned long is 32-bits (fs/ntfs/file.c::ntfs_file_open() and + fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_dir_open()). This is the most we can do without + overflowing the page cache page index. + +2.0.20 - Support non-resident directory index bitmaps, fix page leak in readdir. + + - Move the directory index bitmap to use an attribute inode instead of + having special fields for it inside the ntfs inode structure. This + means that the index bitmaps now use the page cache for i/o, too, + and also as a side effect we get support for non-resident index + bitmaps for free. + - Simplify/cleanup error handling in fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_readdir() and + fix a page leak that manifested itself in some cases. + - Add fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(), which we need to release the + index bitmap inode on the final iput(). + +2.0.19 - Fix race condition, improvements, and optimizations in i/o interface. + + - Apply block optimization added to fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() + to fs/ntfs/compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() as well. + - Drop the "file" from ntfs_file_read_compressed_block(). + - Rename fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_enb_buffer_read_async() to + ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() (more like the fs/buffer.c counterpart). + - Update ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() with the improved logic from + its updated counterpart fs/buffer.c::end_buffer_async_read(). Apply + further logic improvements to better determine when we set PageError. + - Update submission of buffers in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to + check for the buffers being uptodate first in line with the updated + fs/buffer.c::block_read_full_page(). This plugs a small race + condition. + +2.0.18 - Fix race condition in reading of compressed files. + + - There was a narrow window between checking a buffer head for being + uptodate and locking it in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block(). We now + lock the buffer and then check whether it is uptodate or not. + +2.0.17 - Cleanups and optimizations - shrinking the ToDo list. + + - Modify fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_inode() to return an error + code and update callers, i.e. ntfs_iget(), to pass that error code + up instead of just using -EIO. + - Modifications to super.c to ensure that both mount and remount + cannot set any write related options when the driver is compiled + read-only. + - Optimize block resolution in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block() to + cache the current runlist element. This should improve performance + when reading very large and/or very fragmented data. + +2.0.16 - Convert access to $MFT/$BITMAP to attribute inode API. + + - Fix a stupid bug introduced in 2.0.15 where we were unmapping the + wrong inode in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_attr_iget(). + - Fix debugging check in fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_read_block(). + - Convert $MFT/$BITMAP access to attribute inode API and remove all + remnants of the ugly mftbmp address space and operations hack. This + means we finally have only one readpage function as well as only one + async io completion handler. Yey! The mft bitmap is now just an + attribute inode and is accessed from vol->mftbmp_ino just as if it + were a normal file. Fake inodes rule. (-: + +2.0.15 - Fake inodes based attribute i/o via the pagecache, fixes and cleanups. + + - Fix silly bug in fs/ntfs/super.c::parse_options() which was causing + remounts to fail when the partition had an entry in /etc/fstab and + the entry specified the nls= option. + - Apply same macro magic used in fs/ntfs/inode.h to fs/ntfs/volume.h to + expand all the helper functions NVolFoo(), NVolSetFoo(), and + NVolClearFoo(). + - Move copyright statement from driver initialisation message to + module description (fs/super.c). This makes the initialisation + message fit on one line and fits in better with rest of kernel. + - Update fs/ntfs/attrib.c::map_run_list() to work on both real and + attribute inodes, and both for files and directories. + - Implement fake attribute inodes allowing all attribute i/o to go via + the page cache and to use all the normal vfs/mm functionality: + - Add ntfs_attr_iget() and its helper ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode() + to fs/ntfs/inode.c. + - Add needed cleanup code to ntfs_clear_big_inode(). + - Merge address space operations for files and directories (aops.c), + now just have ntfs_aops: + - Rename: + end_buffer_read_attr_async() -> ntfs_end_buffer_read_async(), + ntfs_attr_read_block() -> ntfs_read_block(), + ntfs_file_read_page() -> ntfs_readpage(). + - Rewrite fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_readpage() to work on both real and + attribute inodes, and both for files and directories. + - Remove obsolete fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage(). + +2.0.14 - Run list merging code cleanup, minor locking changes, typo fixes. + + - Change fs/ntfs/super.c::ntfs_statfs() to not rely on BKL by moving + the locking out of super.c::get_nr_free_mft_records() and taking and + dropping the mftbmp_lock rw_semaphore in ntfs_statfs() itself. + - Bring attribute runlist merging code (fs/ntfs/attrib.c) in sync with + current userspace ntfs library code. This means that if a merge + fails the original runlists are always left unmodified instead of + being silently corrupted. + - Misc typo fixes. + +2.0.13 - Use iget5_locked() in preparation for fake inodes and small cleanups. + + - Remove nr_mft_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_mft_records + from ntfs_volume structure. + - Remove nr_lcn_bits and the now superfluous union with nr_clusters + from ntfs_volume structure. + - Use iget5_locked() and friends instead of conventional iget(). Wrap + the call in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_iget() and update callers of iget() + to use ntfs_iget(). Leave only one iget() call at mount time so we + don't need an ntfs_iget_mount(). + - Change fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_new_extent_inode() to take mft_no as an + additional argument. + +2.0.12 - Initial cleanup of address space operations following 2.0.11 changes. + + - Merge fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_mst_async() and + fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_file_async() into one function + fs/ntfs/aops.c::end_buffer_read_attr_async() using NInoMstProtected() + to determine whether to apply mst fixups or not. + - Above change allows merging fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_file_read_block() + and fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() into one function + fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_attr_read_block(). Also, create a tiny wrapper + fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage() to transform the parameters from + the VFS readpage function prototype to the ntfs_attr_read_block() + function prototype. + +2.0.11 - Initial preparations for fake inode based attribute i/o. + + - Move definition of ntfs_inode_state_bits to fs/ntfs/inode.h and + do some macro magic (adapted from include/linux/buffer_head.h) to + expand all the helper functions NInoFoo(), NInoSetFoo(), and + NInoClearFoo(). + - Add new flag to ntfs_inode_state_bits: NI_Sparse. + - Add new fields to ntfs_inode structure to allow use of fake inodes + for attribute i/o: type, name, name_len. Also add new state bits: + NI_Attr, which, if set, indicates the inode is a fake inode, and + NI_MstProtected, which, if set, indicates the attribute uses multi + sector transfer protection, i.e. fixups need to be applied after + reads and before/after writes. + - Rename fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_inode() to + ntfs_{new,clear,destroy}_extent_inode() and update callers. + - Use ntfs_clear_extent_inode() in fs/ntfs/inode.c::__ntfs_clear_inode() + instead of ntfs_destroy_extent_inode(). + - Cleanup memory deallocations in {__,}ntfs_clear_{,big_}inode(). + - Make all operations on ntfs inode state bits use the NIno* functions. + - Set up the new ntfs inode fields and state bits in + fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_inode() and add appropriate cleanup of + allocated memory to __ntfs_clear_inode(). + - Cleanup ntfs_inode structure a bit for better ordering of elements + w.r.t. their size to allow better packing of the structure in memory. + +2.0.10 - There can only be 2^32 - 1 inodes on an NTFS volume. + + - Add check at mount time to verify that the number of inodes on the + volume does not exceed 2^32 - 1, which is the maximum allowed for + NTFS according to Microsoft. + - Change mft_no member of ntfs_inode structure to be unsigned long. + Update all users. This makes ntfs_inode->mft_no just a copy of struct + inode->i_ino. But we can't just always use struct inode->i_ino and + remove mft_no because extent inodes do not have an attached struct + inode. + +2.0.9 - Decompression engine now uses a single buffer and other cleanups. + + - Change decompression engine to use a single buffer protected by a + spin lock instead of per-CPU buffers. (Rusty Russell) + - Do not update cb_pos when handling a partial final page during + decompression of a sparse compression block, as the value is later + reset without being read/used. (Rusty Russell) + - Switch to using the new KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ for atomic kmap()s. (Andrew + Morton) + - Change buffer size in ntfs_readdir()/ntfs_filldir() to use + NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE which makes the buffers almost 1kiB each but + it also makes everything safer so it is a good thing. + - Miscellaneous minor cleanups to comments. + +2.0.8 - Major updates for handling of case sensitivity and dcache aliasing. + + Big thanks go to Al Viro and other inhabitants of #kernel for investing + their time to discuss the case sensitivity and dcache aliasing issues. + + - Remove unused source file fs/ntfs/attraops.c. + - Remove show_inodes mount option(s), thus dropping support for + displaying of short file names. + - Remove deprecated mount option posix. + - Restore show_sys_files mount option. + - Add new mount option case_sensitive, to determine if the driver + treats file names as case sensitive or not. If case sensitive, create + file names in the POSIX namespace. Otherwise create file names in the + LONG/WIN32 namespace. Note, files remain accessible via their short + file name, if it exists. + - Remove really dumb logic bug in boot sector recovery code. + - Fix dcache aliasing issues wrt short/long file names via changes + to fs/ntfs/dir.c::ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() and + fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup(): + - Add additional argument to ntfs_lookup_inode_by_name() in which we + return information about the matching file name if the case is not + matching or the match is a short file name. See comments above the + function definition for details. + - Change ntfs_lookup() to only create dcache entries for the correctly + cased file name and only for the WIN32 namespace counterpart of DOS + namespace file names. This ensures we have only one dentry per + directory and also removes all dcache aliasing issues between short + and long file names once we add write support. See comments above + function for details. + - Fix potential 1 byte overflow in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_ucstonls(). + +2.0.7 - Minor cleanups and updates for changes in core kernel code. + + - Remove much of the NULL struct element initializers. + - Various updates to make compatible with recent kernels. + - Remove defines of MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE and include linux/buffer_head.h + in fs/ntfs/ntfs.h instead. + - Remove no longer needed KERNEL_VERSION checks. We are now in the + kernel proper so they are no longer needed. + +2.0.6 - Major bugfix to make compatible with other kernel changes. + + - Initialize the mftbmp address space properly now that there are more + fields in the struct address_space. This was leading to hangs and + oopses on umount since 2.5.12 because of changes to other parts of + the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space() + function... + - Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The + only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_sem during + the call, and i_sem is sufficient protection against changes in the + directory inode (including ->i_size). + - Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to + default_llseek()) as this downs i_sem instead of the BKL which is + what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we + no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir(). + +2.0.5 - Major bugfix. Buffer overflow in extent inode handling. + + - No need to set old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as the + VFS does so via invocation of deactivate_super() calling + fs->fill_super() calling block_kill_super() which does it. + - BKL moved from VFS into dir.c::ntfs_readdir(). (Linus Torvalds) + -> Do we really need it? I don't think so as we have exclusion on + the directory ntfs_inode rw_semaphore mrec_lock. We mmight have to + move the ->f_pos accesses under the mrec_lock though. Check this... + - Fix really, really, really stupid buffer overflow in extent inode + handling in mft.c::map_extent_mft_record(). + +2.0.4 - Cleanups and updates for kernel 2.5.11. + + - Add documentation on how to use the MD driver to be able to use NTFS + stripe and volume sets in Linux and generally cleanup documentation + a bit. + Remove all uses of kdev_t in favour of struct block_device *: + - Change compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() to use + sb_getblk() instead of getblk(). + - Change super.c::ntfs_fill_super() to use bdev_hardsect_size() instead + of get_hardsect_size(). + - No need to get old blocksize in super.c::ntfs_fill_super() as + fs/super.c::get_sb_bdev() already does this. + - Set bh->b_bdev instead of bh->b_dev throughout aops.c. + +2.0.3 - Small bug fixes, cleanups, and performance improvements. + + - Remove some dead code from mft.c. + - Optimize readpage and read_block functions throughout aops.c so that + only initialized blocks are read. Non-initialized ones have their + buffer head mapped, zeroed, and set up to date, without scheduling + any i/o. Thanks to Al Viro for advice on how to avoid the device i/o. + Thanks go to Andrew Morton for spotting the below: + - Fix buglet in allocate_compression_buffers() error code path. + - Call flush_dcache_page() after modifying page cache page contents in + ntfs_file_readpage(). + - Check for existence of page buffers throughout aops.c before calling + create_empty_buffers(). This happens when an I/O error occurs and the + read is retried. (It also happens once writing is implemented so that + needed doing anyway but I had left it for later...) + - Don't BUG_ON() uptodate and/or mapped buffers throughout aops.c in + readpage and read_block functions. Reasoning same as above (i.e. I/O + error retries and future write code paths.) + +2.0.2 - Minor updates and cleanups. + + - Cleanup: rename mst.c::__post_read_mst_fixup to post_write_mst_fixup + and cleanup the code a bit, removing the unused size parameter. + - Change default fmask to 0177 and update documentation. + - Change attrib.c::get_attr_search_ctx() to return the search context + directly instead of taking the address of a pointer. A return value + of NULL means the allocation failed. Updated all callers + appropriately. + - Update to 2.5.9 kernel (preserving backwards compatibility) by + replacing all occurences of page->buffers with page_buffers(page). + - Fix minor bugs in runlist merging, also minor cleanup. + - Updates to bootsector layout and mft mirror contents descriptions. + - Small bug fix in error detection in unistr.c and some cleanups. + - Grow name buffer allocations in unistr.c in aligned mutlipled of 64 + bytes. + +2.0.1 - Minor updates. + + - Make default umask correspond to documentation. + - Improve documentation. + - Set default mode to include execute bit. The {u,f,d}mask can be used + to take it away if desired. This allows binaries to be executed from + a mounted ntfs partition. + +2.0.0 - New version number. Remove TNG from the name. Now in the kernel. + + - Add kill_super, just keeping up with the vfs changes in the kernel. + - Repeat some changes from tng-0.0.8 that somehow got lost on the way + from the CVS import into BitKeeper. + - Begin to implement proper handling of allocated_size vs + initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size). Done are + mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage(), aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async(), + and attrib.c::load_attribute_list(). + - Lock the runlist in attrib.c::load_attribute_list() while using it. + - Fix memory leak in ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() and generally + clean up compress.c a little, removing some uncommented/unused debug + code. + - Tidy up dir.c a little bit. + - Don't bother getting the runlist in inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). + - Merge mft.c::ntfs_mft_readpage() and aops.c::ntfs_index_readpage() + creating aops.c::ntfs_mst_readpage(), improving the handling of + holes and overflow in the process and implementing the correct + equivalent of ntfs_file_get_block() in ntfs_mst_readpage() itself. + I am aiming for correctness at the moment. Modularisation can come + later. + - Rename aops.c::end_buffer_read_index_async() to + end_buffer_read_mst_async() and optimize the overflow checking and + handling. + - Use the host of the mftbmp address space mapping to hold the ntfs + volume. This is needed so the async i/o completion handler can + retrieve a pointer to the volume. Hopefully this will not cause + problems elsewhere in the kernel... Otherwise will need to use a + fake inode. + - Complete implementation of proper handling of allocated_size vs + initialized_size vs data_size (i.e. i_size) in whole driver. + Basically aops.c is now completely rewritten. + - Change NTFS driver name to just NTFS and set version number to 2.0.0 + to make a clear distinction from the old driver which is still on + version 1.1.22. + +tng-0.0.8 - 08/03/2002 - Now using BitKeeper, http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ + + - Replace bdevname(sb->s_dev) with sb->s_id. + - Remove now superfluous new-line characters in all callers of + ntfs_debug(). + - Apply kludge in ntfs_read_inode(), setting i_nlink to 1 for + directories. Without this the "find" utility gets very upset which is + fair enough as Linux/Unix do not support directory hard links. + - Further runlist merging work. (Richard Russon) + - Backwards compatibility for gcc-2.95. (Richard Russon) + - Update to kernel 2.5.5-pre1 and rediff the now tiny patch. + - Convert to new file system declaration using ->ntfs_get_sb() and + replacing ntfs_read_super() with ntfs_fill_super(). + - Set s_maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE to avoid page cache page index + overflow on 32-bit architectures. + - Cleanup upcase loading code to use ntfs_(un)map_page(). + - Disable/reenable preemtion in critical sections of compession engine. + - Replace device size determination in ntfs_fill_super() with + sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_size (in bytes) and remove now superfluous + function super.c::get_nr_blocks(). + - Implement a mount time option (show_inodes) allowing choice of which + types of inode names readdir() returns and modify ntfs_filldir() + accordingly. There are several parameters to show_inodes: + system: system files + win32: long file names (including POSIX file names) [DEFAULT] + long: same as win32 + dos: short file names only (excluding POSIX file names) + short: same as dos + posix: same as both win32 and dos + all: all file names + Note that the options are additive, i.e. specifying: + -o show_inodes=system,show_inodes=win32,show_inodes=dos + is the same as specifying: + -o show_inodes=all + Note that the "posix" and "all" options will show all directory + names, BUT the link count on each directory inode entry is set to 1, + due to Linux not supporting directory hard links. This may well + confuse some userspace applications, since the directory names will + have the same inode numbers. Thus it is NOT advisable to use the + "posix" or "all" options. We provide them only for completeness sake. + - Add copies of allocated_size, initialized_size, and compressed_size to + the ntfs inode structure and set them up in + inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). These reflect the unnamed data attribute + for files and the index allocation attribute for directories. + - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs inode for + $BITMAP attribute of large directories and set them up in + inode.c::ntfs_read_inode(). + - Add copies of allocated_size and initialized_size to ntfs volume for + $BITMAP attribute of $MFT and set them up in + super.c::load_system_files(). + - Parse deprecated ntfs driver options (iocharset, show_sys_files, + posix, and utf8) and tell user what the new options to use are. Note + we still do support them but they will be removed with kernel 2.7.x. + - Change all occurences of integer long long printf formatting to hex + as printk() will not support long long integer format if/when the + div64 patch goes into the kernel. + - Make slab caches have stable names and change the names to what they + were intended to be. These changes are required/made possible by the + new slab cache name handling which removes the length limitation by + requiring the caller of kmem_cache_create() to supply a stable name + which is then referenced but not copied. + - Rename run_list structure to run_list_element and create a new + run_list structure containing a pointer to a run_list_element + structure and a read/write semaphore. Adapt all users of runlists + to new scheme and take and release the lock as needed. This fixes a + nasty race as the run_list changes even when inodes are locked for + reading and even when the inode isn't locked at all, so we really + needed the serialization. We use a semaphore rather than a spinlock + as memory allocations can sleep and doing everything GFP_ATOMIC + would be silly. + - Cleanup read_inode() removing all code checking for lowest_vcn != 0. + This can never happen due to the nature of lookup_attr() and how we + support attribute lists. If it did happen it would imply the inode + being corrupt. + - Check for lowest_vcn != 0 in ntfs_read_inode() and mark the inode as + bad if found. + - Update to 2.5.6-pre2 changes in struct address_space. + - Use parent_ino() when accessing d_parent inode number in dir.c. + - Import Sourceforge CVS repository into BitKeeper repository: + http://linux-ntfs.bkbits.net/ntfs-tng-2.5 + - Update fs/Makefile, fs/Config.help, fs/Config.in, and + Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt for NTFS TNG. + - Create kernel configuration option controlling whether debugging + is enabled or not. + - Add the required export of end_buffer_io_sync() from the patches + directory to the kernel code. + - Update inode.c::ntfs_show_options() with show_inodes mount option. + - Update errors mount option. + +tng-0.0.7 - 13/02/2002 - The driver is now feature complete for read-only! + + - Cleanup mft.c and it's debug/error output in particular. Fix a minor + bug in mapping of extent inodes. Update all the comments to fit all + the recent code changes. + - Modify vcn_to_lcn() to cope with entirely unmapped runlists. + - Cleanups in compress.c, mostly comments and folding help. + - Implement attrib.c::map_run_list() as a generic helper. + - Make compress.c::ntfs_file_read_compressed_block() use map_run_list() + thus making code shorter and enabling attribute list support. + - Cleanup incorrect use of [su]64 with %L printf format specifier in + all source files. Type casts to [unsigned] long long added to correct + the mismatches (important for architectures which have long long not + being 64 bits). + - Merge async io completion handlers for directory indexes and $MFT + data into one by setting the index_block_size{_bits} of the ntfs + inode for $MFT to the mft_record_size{_bits} of the ntfs_volume. + - Cleanup aops.c, update comments. + - Make ntfs_file_get_block() use map_run_list() so all files now + support attribute lists. + - Make ntfs_dir_readpage() almost verbatim copy of + block_read_full_page() by using ntfs_file_get_block() with only real + difference being the use of our own async io completion handler + rather than the default one, thus reducing the amount of code and + automatically enabling attribute list support for directory indices. + - Fix bug in load_attribute_list() - forgot to call brelse in error + code path. + - Change parameters to find_attr() and lookup_attr(). We no longer + pass in the upcase table and its length. These can be gotten from + ctx->ntfs_ino->vol->upcase{_len}. Update all callers. + - Cleanups in attrib.c. + - Implement merging of runlists, attrib.c::merge_run_lists() and its + helpers. (Richard Russon) + - Attribute lists part 2, attribute extents and multi part runlists: + enable proper support for LCN_RL_NOT_MAPPED and automatic mapping of + further runlist parts via attrib.c::map_run_list(). + - Tiny endianness bug fix in decompress_mapping_pairs(). + +tng-0.0.6 - Encrypted directories, bug fixes, cleanups, debugging enhancements. + + - Enable encrypted directories. (Their index root is marked encrypted + to indicate that new files in that directory should be created + encrypted.) + - Fix bug in NInoBmpNonResident() macro. (Cut and paste error.) + - Enable $Extend system directory. Most (if not all) extended system + files do not have unnamed data attributes so ntfs_read_inode() had to + special case them but that is ok, as the special casing recovery + happens inside an error code path so there is zero slow down in the + normal fast path. The special casing is done by introducing a new + function inode.c::ntfs_is_extended_system_file() which checks if any + of the hard links in the inode point to $Extend as being their parent + directory and if they do we assume this is an extended system file. + - Create a sysctl/proc interface to allow {dis,en}abling of debug output + when compiled with -DDEBUG. Default is debug messages to be disabled. + To enable them, one writes a non-zero value to /proc/sys/fs/ntfs-debug + (if /proc is enabled) or uses sysctl(2) to effect the same (if sysctl + interface is enabled). Inspired by old ntfs driver. + - Add debug_msgs insmod/kernel boot parameter to set whether debug + messages are {dis,en}abled. This is useful to enable debug messages + during ntfs initialization and is the only way to activate debugging + when the sysctl interface is not enabled. + - Cleanup debug output in various places. + - Remove all dollar signs ($) from the source (except comments) to + enable compilation on architectures whose gcc compiler does not + support dollar signs in the names of variables/constants. Attribute + types now start with AT_ instead of $ and $I30 is now just I30. + - Cleanup ntfs_lookup() and add consistency check of sequence numbers. + - Load complete runlist for $MFT/$BITMAP during mount and cleanup + access functions. This means we now cope with $MFT/$BITMAP being + spread accross several mft records. + - Disable modification of mft_zone_multiplier on remount. We can always + reenable this later on if we really want to, but we will need to make + sure we readjust the mft_zone size / layout accordingly. + +tng-0.0.5 - Modernize for 2.5.x and further in line-ing with Al Viro's comments. + + - Use sb_set_blocksize() instead of set_blocksize() and verify the + return value. + - Use sb_bread() instead of bread() throughout. + - Add index_vcn_size{_bits} to ntfs_inode structure to store the size + of a directory index block vcn. Apply resulting simplifications in + dir.c everywhere. + - Fix a small bug somewhere (but forgot what it was). + - Change ntfs_{debug,error,warning} to enable gcc to do type checking + on the printf-format parameter list and fix bugs reported by gcc + as a result. (Richard Russon) + - Move inode allocation strategy to Al's new stuff but maintain the + divorce of ntfs_inode from struct inode. To achieve this we have two + separate slab caches, one for big ntfs inodes containing a struct + inode and pure ntfs inodes and at the same time fix some faulty + error code paths in ntfs_read_inode(). + - Show mount options in proc (inode.c::ntfs_show_options()). + +tng-0.0.4 - Big changes, getting in line with Al Viro's comments. + + - Modified (un)map_mft_record functions to be common for read and write + case. To specify which is which, added extra parameter at front of + parameter list. Pass either READ or WRITE to this, each has the + obvious meaning. + - General cleanups to allow for easier folding in vi. + - attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() now accepts the old runlist + argument, and invokes attrib.c::merge_run_lists() to merge the old + and the new runlists. + - Removed attrib.c::find_first_attr(). + - Implemented loading of attribute list and complete runlist for $MFT. + This means we now cope with $MFT being spread across several mft + records. + - Adapt to 2.5.2-pre9 and the changed create_empty_buffers() syntax. + - Adapt major/minor/kdev_t/[bk]devname stuff to new 2.5.x kernels. + - Make ntfs_volume be allocated via kmalloc() instead of using a slab + cache. There are too little ntfs_volume structures at any one time + to justify a private slab cache. + - Fix bogus kmap() use in async io completion. Now use kmap_atomic(). + Use KM_BIO_IRQ on advice from IRC/kernel... + - Use ntfs_map_page() in map_mft_record() and create ->readpage method + for reading $MFT (ntfs_mft_readpage). In the process create dedicated + address space operations (ntfs_mft_aops) for $MFT inode mapping. Also + removed the now superfluous exports from the kernel core patch. + - Fix a bug where kfree() was used insted of ntfs_free(). + - Change map_mft_record() to take ntfs_inode as argument instead of + vfs inode. Dito for unmap_mft_record(). Adapt all callers. + - Add pointer to ntfs_volume to ntfs_inode. + - Add mft record number and sequence number to ntfs_inode. Stop using + i_ino and i_generation for in-driver purposes. + - Implement attrib.c::merge_run_lists(). (Richard Russon) + - Remove use of proper inodes by extent inodes. Move i_ino and + i_generation to ntfs_inode to do this. Apply simplifications that + result and remove iget_no_wait(), etc. + - Pass ntfs_inode everywhere in the driver (used to be struct inode). + - Add reference counting in ntfs_inode for the ntfs inode itself and + for the mapped mft record. + - Extend mft record mapping so we can (un)map extent mft records (new + functions (un)map_extent_mft_record), and so mappings are reference + counted and don't have to happen twice if already mapped - just ref + count increases. + - Add -o iocharset as alias to -o nls for backwards compatibility. + - The latest core patch is now tiny. In fact just a single additional + export is necessary over the base kernel. + +tng-0.0.3 - Cleanups, enhancements, bug fixes. + + - Work on attrib.c::decompress_mapping_pairs() to detect base extents + and setup the runlist appropriately using knowledge provided by the + sizes in the base attribute record. + - Balance the get_/put_attr_search_ctx() calls so we don't leak memory + any more. + - Introduce ntfs_malloc_nofs() and ntfs_free() to allocate/free a single + page or use vmalloc depending on the amount of memory requested. + - Cleanup error output. The __FUNCTION__ "(): " is now added + automatically. Introduced a new header file debug.h to support this + and also moved ntfs_debug() function into it. + - Make reading of compressed files more intelligent and especially get + rid of the vmalloc_nofs() from readpage(). This now uses per CPU + buffers (allocated at first mount with cluster size <= 4kiB and + deallocated on last umount with cluster size <= 4kiB), and + asynchronous io for the compressed data using a list of buffer heads. + Er, we use synchronous io as async io only works on whole pages + covered by buffers and not on individual buffer heads... + - Bug fix for reading compressed files with sparse compression blocks. + +tng-0.0.2 - Now handles larger/fragmented/compressed volumes/files/dirs. + + - Fixed handling of directories when cluster size exceeds index block + size. + - Hide DOS only name space directory entries from readdir() but allow + them in lookup(). This should fix the problem that Linux doesn't + support directory hard links, while still allowing access to entries + via their short file name. This also has the benefit of mimicking + what Windows users are used to, so it is the ideal solution. + - Implemented sync_page everywhere so no more hangs in D state when + waiting for a page. + - Stop using bforget() in favour of brelse(). + - Stop locking buffers unnecessarily. + - Implemented compressed files (inode->mapping contains uncompressed + data, raw compressed data is currently bread() into a vmalloc()ed + memory buffer). + - Enable compressed directories. (Their index root is marked compressed + to indicate that new files in that directory should be created + compressed.) + - Use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in the ntfs_error and ntfs_warning + functions. (Thanks to Will Dyson for pointing this out.) + - Moved the ntfs_inode and ntfs_volume (the former ntfs_inode_info and + ntfs_sb_info) out of the common inode and super_block structures and + started using the generic_ip and generic_sbp pointers instead. This + makes ntfs entirely private with respect to the kernel tree. + - Detect compiler version and abort with error message if gcc less than + 2.96 is used. + - Fix bug in name comparison function in unistr.c. + - Implement attribute lists part 1, the infrastructure: search contexts + and operations, find_external_attr(), lookup_attr()) and make the + code use the infrastructure. + - Fix stupid buffer overflow bug that became apparent on larger run + list containing attributes. + - Fix bugs in readdir() that became apparent on larger directories. + + The driver is now really useful and survives the test + find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \; + without any error messages on a over 1GiB sized partition with >16k + files on it, including compressed files and directories and many files + and directories with attribute lists. + +tng-0.0.1 - The first useful version. + + - Added ntfs_lookup(). + - Added default upcase generation and handling. + - Added compile options to be shown on module init. + - Many bug fixes that were "hidden" before. + - Update to latest kernel. + - Added ntfs_readdir(). + - Added file operations for mmap(), read(), open() and llseek(). We just + use the generic ones. The whole point of going through implementing + readpage() methods and where possible get_block() call backs is that + this allows us to make use of the generic high level methods provided + by the kernel. + + The driver is now actually useful! Yey. (-: It undoubtedly has got bugs + though and it doesn't implement accesssing compressed files yet. Also, + accessing files with attribute list attributes is not implemented yet + either. But for small or simple file systems it should work and allow + you to list directories, use stat on directory entries and the file + system, open, read, mmap and llseek around in files. A big mile stone + has been reached! + +tng-0.0.0 - Initial version tag. + + Initial driver implementation. The driver can mount and umount simple + NTFS file systems (i.e. ones without attribute lists in the system + files). If the mount fails there might be problems in the error handling + code paths, so be warned. Otherwise it seems to be loading the system + files nicely and the mft record read mapping/unmapping seems to be + working nicely, too. Proof of inode metadata in the page cache and non- + resident file unnamed stream data in the page cache concepts is thus + complete. |
