Defined new options --new-serial and --new-half-serial to set a new
random serial number when cloning or restoring a file system.
Useful for mounting the original and the cloned file system at the
same time.
Clearing of user data was wrong when extracting the metadata into a
special format image. In this situation the clearing has to be done
without mounting the file system.
When extracting the metadata, unused data at the end of MFT records is
supposed to be cleared. This was done for the base record of each file,
but not for the extent records.
Logging of fixup errors for uninitialized inodes cause unnecessary
worries and suspicion of malfunctions in ntfs-3g. This patch silences
these loggings in ntfsclone and ntfsresize which have to analyze all
inodes, including the uninitialized ones.
When creating a partition image, ntfsclone write an extra byte to
describe each cluster, this causes two unneeded ntfs-3g calls per cluster,
and inefficiency when imaging to ntfs.
A recent patch added copying the backup boot sector when cloning,
saving or restoring a partition, but when the total number of sectors is
not a multiple of the number of sectors per cluster, the last cluster
containing the backup boot sector is shorter than usual.
When this happens, the present patch avoids overflowing from partition
when accessing the last cluster.
This is not a perfect conversion. The VOLUME_IS_DIRTY flag reflects the _current_ state of the volume dirty bit and not the mount-time state.
However, since libntfs-3g (as opposed to libntfs) does not automatically change the dirty bit on mount and unmount (only when ntfs_volume_write_flags is called explicitly), and these tests are done directly after a mount (ntfsclone.c, ntfscp.c, ntfsresize.c, ntfswipe.c, utils.c) or when the volume is in an appropriate state (ntfsfix.c), the result will be the same.
In fact, this is how libntfs-3g operates normally, so the MS_NOATIME flag is not needed. However, other utilities might incorrectly assume that the library updates access times for them.
Investigating whether access time needs to be manually updated in other utilities is TODO.
When doing a ntfclone-restore from stdin and stdin is then closed,
ntfsclone will loop forever:
$ cat corrupt_image.gz | gzip -d | ntfsclone -r -O somedisk -
With this patch the io_all() loop will return an error when the
input-stream is closed.
- Library no longer perform time updates, only provide API for this
- Remove ntfs_inode_update_{a,}time() and introduce ntfs_inode_update_times()
- Make ntfsmount properly update times
- ntfs_delete() now takes pointer to pointer to ntfs_inode for while to delete and closes inode only in cases no more hard links left to file
and include --with-uuid[=PFX] and --without-uuid options. (Anton)
- configure.ac: Set language to C. (Anton)
- mkntfs: Always set default cluster size to 4096 bytes regardless of
volume size. This is what Windows Vista does and it makes perfect
sense from a performance point of view. (Anton)
Jean-Pierre André
Erik Larsson
Olaf Rempel
Anton Altaparmakov
Yura Pakhuchiy
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