NTFS-3G 0.20070102-BETA

Version 0.20070102-BETA:

Changelog:

• Fix: writing large files could be very slow.
• Fix: writing several files at the same time could be very slow.
• Fix: writing at several places into a file at the same time could be very slow.
• Fix: invalid argument error when writing randomly into sparse files.

NTFS-3G 0.20061218-BETA

Version 0.20061218-BETA:

Changelog:

• Fix: heavy memory usage with sparse files (p2p, bittorrent client problems).
• Fix: inode number wasn’t filled in the dirent structures (CVS, getcwd, gnulib problems).
• Fix: 2-8% speed increase due to using pread/pwrite instead of lseek+read/write.
• Fix: fuse 2.6.x kernel module detection wasn’t reliable.

NTFS-3G 0.20061212-BETA

Version 0.20061212-BETA:

Changelog:

• Fix: directories were inaccessible on Windows if the cluster size was bigger than 4kB.
• Fix: static linking failed with FUSE 2.6.0.
• Fix: ‘make install’ failed if ldconfig wasn’t in the $PATH.
• Change: more verbose error reporting, explanations, hints for solutions.

NTFS-3G 0.20061115-BETA

Version 0.20061115-BETA:

Changelog:

• Fix: unmount was unsafe for removable devices.
• Fix: the code wasn’t endian safe.
• Fix: mount arguments were omitted on the 2nd fuse mount attempt.
• New: FUSE 2.6.0 is required to ensure maximum reliability.
• New: bmap() implemented: safe swap file support, LILO bootability.
• Change: the file system type is ‘fuseblk’ instead of ‘fuse’ for block devices.

NTFS-3G 0.20061031-BETA

Version 0.20061031-BETA:

Changelog:

• Fix: unmount was asynchronous; full fix requires FUSE 2.6.0 as well.
• Fix: mount was denied if $MFTMirr was too small.
• Fix: option parsing was incorrect if there was no space between name & argument.
• Change: new software versioning.

Version 2006.09.20:

Changelog:

• Fix: file creation at disk-full may lead to i/o errors.
• Fix: statistic of inodes and free inodes was incorrect (df -i).
• Fix: the ‘umask’ option wasn’t always parsed as an octal number.
• Fix: “too long filename” handling wasn’t POSIX compliant.
• Fix: mount was denied if $MFTMirr had unused garbage at the file end.

Version 2006.09.10:

Changelog:

• Fix: rename was always denied if the target file or directory existed.
• Fix: renaming like ‘foo’ -> ‘FOO’ was denied in the WIN32 namespace.
• Fix: fuse kernel module is automatically loaded, no need for config.
• Fix: verbose mount error messages with hints for solutions.
• Fix: compilation failed with gcc 2.96.
• Change: top request: full read-write access to everybody by default.
• Change: file lookups are always case-sensitive.

Version 2006.08.22:

Changelog:

• Fix: case-insensitive directory rename to itself may failed.
• Fix: some regular files weren’t accessible on Linux.
• Fix: files created on Linux may not had enough permissions on Windows.

Version 2006.08.11:

Changelog:

• Fix: directory couldn’t be renamed if it had both WIN32 and DOS name.
• Fix: collision with ntfsprogs header files.

Version 2006.08.03:

Changelog:

• Fix: improved large file write performance.
• Fix: better consistency if NTFS wasn’t cleanly unmounted.
• Fix: write(2) may created holes.
• Fix: show mounted device names instead of /dev/fuse.

Version 2006.07.14:

Changelog:

• First NTFS-3G BETA release.