Greetings,
The new, stable NTFS-3G release contains the following major functionality improvements, changes and bug fixes:
- New: Full, transparent, read-write compression support.
- New: Two new mount options: compression and nocompression (default).
- New: Introduced windows_names mount option to enforce only Windows names.
- Change: Re-enabled compression in root directory.
- Change: Reversed default for showing/hiding hidden files.
- Change: Redefined default user mapping.
- Change: Marked files whose name has a dot initial as “hidden” if option hide_dot_files is used.
- Change: Renamed option default_permissions to permissions.
- Fixed use of utimensat() with external fuse older than 2.8.
- Fixed a hang when reading a corrupt compressed file.
- Fixed a possible crash when creating a stream.
- Fixed all reported and found compressed write related bugs.
- Fixed partially overwriting sparse clusters on highly fragmented volumes.
- Fixed checking write errors in setxattr().
- Fixed processing end of partial runlist for compressed files.
- Fixed updating file compressed sizes.
- Fixed checking the device mount state.
- Fixed processing of options silent and no_def_opts.
- Fixed excessive cluster allocation within big holes.
- Fixed creating empty encrypted extended attributes.
- Fixed too permissive sanity check before compressing.
- Fixed error returns when writing compressed data.
- Fixed sanity checked when closing a compressed file.
- Fixed zeroing the end of an ex-hole cluster of compressed files.
- Improved sanity checks on security descriptors.
The latest release of the software is available at http://www.tuxera.com/
Enjoy!
Tuxera Open Source Team