The booting process has recently been changed so that partitions
which are requested to be checked at mount time with no checker
available, cause a specific user interaction while booting.
The patch warns users against requesting such a check, as there
is no known open-source ntfs file system checker.
With the default mount options, compression of new files are now done
if the parent directory is marked for compression. The mount option
"compression" is not needed any more, but the option "nocompression"
can be used to disable compression of new files.
The default option also applies to applications using libntfs-3g with
no mount command.
This patch avoid updating the time stamps whenever a file is modified,
by delaying the time stamps updating until the file is closed.
This is mostly useful when the ntfs file system hosts another loop-monted
file system to avoid frequent updates of the time stamps in the outer
file system.
The binaries 'ntfs-3g', 'lowntfs-3g', 'ntfs-3g.probe' 'ntfs-3g.usermap' and 'ntfs-3g.secaudit' will not be built when this option is passed to 'configure'.
When specifying both '--disable-ntfsprogs' and '--disable-ntfs-3g', only libntfs-3g will be built (no executable binaries).
For some reason, when the monted device is "/dev/mapper/*", a record
in the form "/dev/dm-*" ends up in /etc/mtab and the device cannot be
unmounted.
The reason is unclear, the /dev/mapper name is not a symlink, and the
function doing the name change is not known. No detailed feedback from
the users having met the issue.
The patch changes the name back to the /dev/mapper name after realpath()
is called, and, if there is an actual change, both the name passed to
ntfs-3g and the one passed to fuse and mount are logged in the hope
of getting a clue about what is happening.
But ntfs-3g is probably not the right place for a fix.
The "flags" argument of ntfs_initialize_file_security() is intended to
feed the one to ntfs_mount(). Having the same type for both may avoid
future problems.
Jean-Pierre André
Erik Larsson
Szaka