X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ffilesystems%2Fntfs.txt;h=7d600c0f4c86a8a3733178dc822791cadbb48ce3;hb=c7b5ebbddf7bcd3651947760f423e3783bbe6573;hp=200862dd64ae8868e58933758cf44b567cb0a40c;hpb=a2c21200f1c81b08cb55e417b68150bba439b646;p=linux-2.6.git diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 200862dd6..7d600c0f4 100644 --- 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 -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. @@ -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 - (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). -- 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 - 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 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 @@ -273,6 +277,25 @@ 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