Open Source Development Goes Strong

As many of you probably know, Tuxera comes from the open source development. Apart from the commercial file systems it is mainly recognized for its open software: NTFS – 3G.

NTFS-3G is the original, free-software, read and write NTFS driver for Linux, Android, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, QNX and other operating systems. It is widely used in GNU/Linux distributions, including Fedora and Ubuntu among others. The software allows users to mount Windows partitions and edit or delete Windows files. It comes with a full support for all Windows versions from Windows XP to Windows 8, added in the recent update.

In April 2011 Tuxera merged NTFS-3G together with Ntfsprogs, a collection of free Unix utilities for managing NTFS file systems, creating Tuxera NTFS Community Edition.

Open source community continues to be a big part of our business and we aim to contribute to it as much as we can. The software is regularly updated and maintained by our developers. This January we have released latest stable version ntfs-3G ntfsprogs 2013.1.13 with following specifications:

ntfs-3g: fixed returned files types in readdir()
ntfs-3g: force option ‘ro’ when mounting a read-only device
ntfs-3g: keep the name of a deleted file in place for easier undeletion
ntfs-3g: accept multiple read-only mounts
ntfs-3g: improved Windows-type ACL inheritance, as needed by Windows 8
ntfs-3g: avoid unnecessary runlist update when appending data to a file
ntfs-3g: added inheritance of the set-group-id flag
ntfs-3g: deny mounting when fast restart mode of Windows 8 is detected
ntfs-3g: reject getting/setting DOS names on hard linked files
ntfsclone: fixed wiping user data when creating metadata images
ntfsclone: implemented a new option to set a new serial number
ntfsfix: implemented fixing the backup boot sector
ntfsfix: fixed clearing the bad cluster list
ntfsinfo: added allocation data to the volume parameters summary
ntfsinfo: output the numbers of runs and fragments for the selected file
ntfslabel: implemented a new option to set a new serial number
ntfswipe: added optional wiping of file tails and undelete data
mkntfs: insert an $Info stream in $UpCase to comply with Windows 8
openindianas: merged OpenIndiana requirements into the driver and fuse-lite

On the top of the stable release, there are always further add-ons, which are aimed at developing, maturing and releasing features that might be integrated in the future upgrades depending on user feedback.

Our commercial high-performance alternative, Tuxera NTFS for Mac and embedded devices is currently one of the most widely deployed solutions on the market.

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Tuxera is the leading provider of quality-assured data storage management software and networking technologies. We help people and businesses store and move data reliably, while making file transfers fast and content easily accessible. Our software is at the core of billions of phones, tablets, cars, TV sets, cameras, drones, external storage, routers, spacecraft, IoT devices, and public cloud storage platforms.

Tuxera’s customers include car makers, device manufacturers, industrial equipment manufacturers, data-driven enterprises, and many more. We help them solve complex challenges involving data in all its states – at rest, in use, and in motion. They rely on our software to protect data integrity, ensure data accessibility, improve storage performance, transfer data rapidly and securely, and extend flash memory lifetime in their products and for their projects.

Open Source Development Goes Strong

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