On-disk struct definitions used native types (u16/u32/u64/s16/s32/s64),
which doesn't say anything about the intended interpretation of the
data. The intention of having little-endian-specific types and
big-endian-specific types must have been to clarify interpretation of
data and intentions in the code. Therefore it seems reasonable to use
these types in struct definitions to clarify what data represention is
used to encode field data.
Because some struct members in layout.h are big-endian, this change also
means moving the duplicated definitions for big-endian byteswapping
macros and big-endian types found in acls.h and security.h to the
appropriate locations in endians.h and types.h respectively in order to
make them available for the struct definitions in layout.h.
fuse-lite announces a FUSE_VERSION which may not always match the exact
capabilities of the library. Hence we add a special case for 'ioctl',
which we know exists in fuse-lite regardless of the version number
published.
The capability actually appeared in FUSE 2.9, not 2.8. However in order
to maintain similarity to earlier #ifdef:s, we simpy check if
FUSE_CAP_IOCTL_DIR is defined rather than checking the FUSE version.
The variable 'res' was never initialized if the #ifdef condition
'!KERNELPERMS | (POSIXACLS & !KERNELACLS)' evaluated to true and there
was an error allocating memory for 'value'.
autofs passes the sloppy option to mount(8) for all file systems to mean
that mount should not choke on invalid options such as those meant for
remote mounting on another operating system through nfs or cifs.
Following a recent change, mount(8) passes the -s option on to any file
system, even to local ones (which are not expected to get foreign options),
so ntfs-3g now has to ignore -s.
The support for ioctls has been added to fuse when using protocol 7.18,
and an equivalent upgrade has been done in fuse lite with commit [ae9aee].
For old kernels, a fall back to protocol 7.8 was implemented, but this
appears not to be supported in not-so-old kernels (e.g. 2.6.35).
With this patch, the fall back protocol is set to 7.12 or to the highest
level supported by the kernel.
When the security attribute is present, chkdsk may set a null security id
in the standard attributes, and this should not be considered as an error.
(this partially reverts commit [70e5b1])
When the new option --unused-fast is used, clusters which appear as wiped
are not written again. This is useful for avoiding virtual partitions to
be extended to their full size.
Contributed by michael
This patch changes the algorithm to use hash chains instead of binary
trees, with much stronger hashing. It also introduces useful (for
performance) parameters, such as the "nice match length" and "maximum
search depth", that are similar to those used in other commonly used
compression algorithms such as zlib's DEFLATE implementation.
The speed improvement is very significant, with some loss of compression
rate. The compression rate is still better than then Windows one.
Contributed by Eric Biggers
The new way goes via /sys/dev/block/MAJOR:MINOR to map partitions to
devices and get discard parameters of the parent device. It also ensures
that the partition is aligned to the discard block size.
Contributed by Richard W.M. Jones
fstrim(8) discards unused blocks on a mounted filesystem. It is useful for
solid-state drives (SSDs) and thinly-provisioned storage.
Only trimming the full device (with no option) is supported.
Contributed by Richard W.M. Jones