This is done to match the type of the LSN struct members in layout.h.
The effect of this change is that while these members were declared with
the le64 type previously, leLSN resolves to sle64. I.e. what was
previously unsigned fields are now signed.
Following this change we also need to switch over a few macros from
unsigned to signed versions in the code that uses these struct
definitions.
If start buffer is more recent than restart, we update committed LSN
with last record LSN of block (last_end_lsn) while applying action but
forget about it while printing records with -f for investigation
purpose.
Note that while applying actions we use start_buffer to calculate
latest page out of block 2 and block 3 and then from latest take
committed LSN. For -f we don't need buffers so we just compare
directly with committed LSN from restart.
(contributed by Rakesh Pandit)
When block 2 or block 3 points backward to block 4, it is not clear
whether the log file only consists of block 2 or block 3 or the log
file has just wrapped around. The latter is now assumed.
ntfsrecover applies to the metadata the updates which were requested on
Windows but could not be completed because they were interrupted by
some event such as a power failure, a hardware crash, a software crash
or the device being unplugged. Doing so, the file system is restored
to the latest consistent state.
No update to libntfs-3g is required by this implementation.
Erik Larsson
Jean-Pierre André