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.
index allocation attributes as well. This further decreases the
compressed metadata image size by 10-25% and more importantly it
eliminates non-interesting ntfscmp differences.
increases the compressed image sizes by only 0.3-0.8% but ntfsclone creates
now the exact same metadata images as mkntfs, which fact can be used for QA.
is not legal (but happens to work on Linux) to do proper
low-level file descriptor mangling which is portable. (Anton)
- Add test/runlist-data to EXTRA_DIST so it gets included in the
distribution otherwise make test fails on released sources. Solution
is not perfect as it also adds the test/runlist-data/CVS directory
but it will do at least for me. (Anton)
volume.[hc]::ntfs_libntfs_version() which returns a pointer to a
static const string of the libntfs verion, i.e. at the moment this is
"8.0.0". This required moving the version specifications from
libntfs/Makefile.am to configure.ac. This should hopefully have the
sideeffect that I will remember to increment it when incrementing the
ntfsprogs version number when making a release given the two are
right under one another. (Anton)
- Change ALL utilities to display the libntfs version they are running
on. This should make debugging easier in the case that people are
running mismatched utilities/library. (Anton)
latest ntfsprogs snapshot. Includes,
- ntfsclone: --rescue works at the lowest, sector and not cluster level
thus more data can be rescued. The contents of the unreadable sectors
are filled by character '?' and the beginning of such sectors are
marked as "BadSectoR\0". Thanks to Krishna Mohan Gundu for his help.
- ntfsclone: fixed an off-by-one error during --metadata in function
wipe_data().
Szaka
(Logical change 1.699)
Save at least the first 16 KiB of $Logfile (the two RSTR records
should always be included if present). Save also records used for
checking empty $Logfile. (Szaka)
(Logical change 1.691)
bad sectors (dying disks) can be rescued. The content of the cluster
having bad sectors is filled by character '2' and the start of the
cluster is marked by "BadClusteR".
(Logical change 1.682)
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