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Stable NTFS-3G 1.5012 released

Greetings,

Version 1.2926-RC is released unchanged as stable 1.5012. 

The NTFS-3G driver is able now for unlimited file and directory creation 
and removal as the result of 13 years continuous clean-room reverse 
engineering, documenting the different versions of NTFS on-disk formats 
and implementing a safely interoperable file system driver with the over 
500,000 source lines Microsoft NTFS driver by the help of hundreds of 
contributors over these years.

The latest stable source code can be downloaded from http://ntfs-3g.org

  Congratulations And Thank You To Everybody Who Made This Happen! 

Especially to those who devoted sometimes even more than a decade of 
hard work, most of them never giving up: Martin von Loewis (who also 
received the Frank Willison Award this year for his contributions to 
the Python Community), Richard Russon, Anton Altaparmakov, Yura Pakhuchiy, 
Yuval Fledel, Mario Emmenlauer, Jean-Pierre Andre, Alon Bar-Lev, Dominique 
L Bouix, Csaba Henk, Alejandro Pulver, Erik Larsson, Bernhard Kaindl, 
Miklos Szeredi, Szabolcs Szakacsits.

  Enjoy!

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APIs supported by the NTFS-3g driver

Hi List , 
Is there a list of APIs supported by the NTFS-3g driver  ? 
Thanks 
Pranjal 

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ntfs-3g patches in openSUSE package

Hi,

(I'm not subscribed to the list -- please cc me on reply)

I'm updating the ntfs-3g package in openSUSE, and I see that we have two
patches here. I have absolutely no idea if they have been sent upstream
and/or if they're okay. I'd appreciate if someone could take a few
minutes to give an opinion about this.

The first one is ntfs-3g-warnings.patch and should be relatively safe.
It just makes sure that ntfs-3g can be compiled "-Wformat
-Wformat-security -W -Wno-sign-compare -Werror". My guess is that we
compile it this way for extra security. Some changes, like the
fprintf() ones, are indeed good practice.

The second one is ntfs-3g-utf8-fallback.patch. There's a header
explaining the goal of the patch.

Thanks,

Vincent

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Re: ntfs-3g patches in openSUSE package

Hi Szaka and Vincent,

Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> Hello Vincent,
>
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Vincent Untz wrote:
>
>   
>> (I'm not subscribed to the list -- please cc me on reply)
>>     
>
> Ok. Thank you for the patches.
>
>   
>> I'm updating the ntfs-3g package in openSUSE, and I see that we have two
>> patches here. I have absolutely no idea if they have been sent upstream
>>     
>
> Yes, Bernhard Kaindl sent them and they were/are discussed.
>
>   
>> and/or if they're okay. I'd appreciate if someone could take a few
>> minutes to give an opinion about this.
>>
>> The first one is ntfs-3g-warnings.patch and should be relatively safe.
>>     

There are two more warnings in mft.c about having no prototype
for two functions added lately : ntfs_mft_attr_extend() and
ntfs_mft_rec_alloc(). Apparently you do not address them,

Re: ntfs-3g patches in openSUSE package

Hello Vincent,

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Vincent Untz wrote:

> (I'm not subscribed to the list -- please cc me on reply)

Ok. Thank you for the patches.

> I'm updating the ntfs-3g package in openSUSE, and I see that we have two
> patches here. I have absolutely no idea if they have been sent upstream

Yes, Bernhard Kaindl sent them and they were/are discussed.

> and/or if they're okay. I'd appreciate if someone could take a few
> minutes to give an opinion about this.
>
> The first one is ntfs-3g-warnings.patch and should be relatively safe.

Afair, we weren't sure with some casts if it's a openSUSE pre-release gcc 
bug or not, so the issue was pending. 

> It just makes sure that ntfs-3g can be compiled "-Wformat
> -Wformat-security -W -Wno-sign-compare -Werror". My guess is that we
> compile it this way for extra security. Some changes, like the
> fprintf() ones, are indeed good practice.

Yes, it is a good practice. 

However not every apple is the same. All the cases are safe (constant 

Re: ntfs-3g patches in openSUSE package

Hi Jean-Pierre,

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, [ISO-8859-1] Jean-Pierre André wrote:
> >>
> >> The first one is ntfs-3g-warnings.patch and should be relatively safe.
> 
> There are two more warnings in mft.c about having no prototype
> for two functions added lately : ntfs_mft_attr_extend() and
> ntfs_mft_rec_alloc(). Apparently you do not address them,
> in fact it is just a matter of declaring these functions as static.

Yes, these are also fixed in the current CVS.

> I also have a patch for ntfs-3g in an error formatting message
> ("ntfs_attr_pwrite partial write" etc.) for variables to be formatted
> as %lld though not cast to long long. This warning only shows on
> 64-bit compiles because in that situation the variables are plain
> longs (I have not the exact patch at hand as my own version is
> different).

It would be really nice to have an exteneded logging API one day, where 
the format string could have NTFS specific conversion specifiers, so we 
wouldn't need to bother these cast anymore, only once.

> Also there are a lot of warnings in fuse-lite, but I have never
> looked at them.

Yes, I'm planning to ask Miklos' opinion about them for while.

Junction points

Hi,

I have laid down a few thoughts about making junction points appear like 
symbolic links in

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/b.andre/junctions.html

Comments welcome.

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