vserver 1.9.3

[linux-2.6.git] / Documentation / filesystems / ntfs.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
index 200862d..7d600c0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ fault-tolerance, encryption or journalling) and very limited, but safe, write
 support.
 
 For fault tolerance and raid support (i.e. volume and stripe sets), you can
 support.
 
 For fault tolerance and raid support (i.e. volume and stripe sets), you can

-use the kernel's Software RAID / MD driver. See section "Using Software RAID
+use the kernel's Software RAID / MD driver.  See section "Using Software RAID

 with NTFS" for details.
 
 
 with NTFS" for details.
 
 


@@ -64,14 +64,18 @@ Features
        time find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
   run three times in sequence with each driver (after a reboot) on a 1.4GiB
   NTFS partition, showed the new driver to be 20% faster in total time elapsed
        time find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;
   run three times in sequence with each driver (after a reboot) on a 1.4GiB
   NTFS partition, showed the new driver to be 20% faster in total time elapsed

-  (from 9:43 minutes on average down to 7:53). The time spent in user space
+  (from 9:43 minutes on average down to 7:53).  The time spent in user space

   was unchanged but the time spent in the kernel was decreased by a factor of
   2.5 (from 85 CPU seconds down to 33).
   was unchanged but the time spent in the kernel was decreased by a factor of
   2.5 (from 85 CPU seconds down to 33).

-- The driver does not support short file names in general. For backwards
+- The driver does not support short file names in general.  For backwards

   compatibility, we implement access to files using their short file names if
   compatibility, we implement access to files using their short file names if

-  they exist. The driver will not create short file names however, and a rename
-  will discard any existing short file name.
+  they exist.  The driver will not create short file names however, and a
+  rename will discard any existing short file name.

 - The new driver supports exporting of mounted NTFS volumes via NFS.
 - The new driver supports exporting of mounted NTFS volumes via NFS.

+- The new driver supports async io (aio).
+- The new driver supports fsync(2), fdatasync(2), and msync(2).
+- The new driver supports readv(2) and writev(2).
+- The new driver supports access time updates (including mtime and ctime).

 
 
 Supported mount options
 
 
 Supported mount options


@@ -273,6 +277,25 @@ ChangeLog
 
 Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog.
 
 
 Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog.
 

+2.1.20:
+       - Fix two stupid bugs introduced in 2.1.18 release.
+2.1.19:
+       - Minor bugfix in handling of the default upcase table.
+       - Many internal cleanups and improvements.  Many thanks to Linus
+         Torvalds and Al Viro for the help and advice with the sparse
+         annotations and cleanups.
+2.1.18:
+       - Fix scheduling latencies at mount time.  (Ingo Molnar)
+       - Fix endianness bug in a little traversed portion of the attribute
+         lookup code.
+2.1.17:
+       - Fix bugs in mount time error code paths.
+2.1.16:
+       - Implement access time updates (including mtime and ctime).
+       - Implement fsync(2), fdatasync(2), and msync(2) system calls.
+       - Enable the readv(2) and writev(2) system calls.
+       - Enable access via the asynchronous io (aio) API by adding support for
+         the aio_read(3) and aio_write(3) functions.

 2.1.15:
        - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
          NOTE:  This now only leave user space journalling on the side.  (See
 2.1.15:
        - Invalidate quotas when (re)mounting read-write.
          NOTE:  This now only leave user space journalling on the side.  (See