NTFS-3G 2009.4.4

Stable Version 2009.4.4 (April 2, 2009)
Download: https://tuxera.com/opensource/obsolete/ntfs-3g-2009.4.4.tgz

Changelog:

• Fix: Mount and system boot could hang if Linux kernel audit was enabled.
• Fix: Volume could be potentially corrupted or the driver may crashed after a partial write or hardware error.
• Fix: The driver could crash handling highly fragmented files.

NTFS-3G 2009.3.8

Stable Version 2009.3.8 (March 26, 2009)

Changelog:

• Fix: Some defragmenters reported NTFS-3G created directories unmovable.
• Fix: The Windows NTFS file system checker, CHKDSK, may reported “free space marked as allocated in the master file table (MFT) bitmap”.
• Fix: The driver may returned “No space left on device” error when there was still free space on the NTFS volume.
• Fix: A file may got corrupted when the STANDARD INFORMATION attribute was moved to an extent MFT record. Only the already fixed Advanced NTFS-3G Driver had this problem, not the Stable NTFS-3G Driver.
• Change: 10-50% faster file and directory creation, removal, copy, unpackaging performance.
• Change: 500-1000% faster mount time. This is mostly noticable on multi-TB volumes and embedded devices. Please note, a generally 10-20 times faster performing NTFS-3G driver is available for embedded devices separately.
• Change: Improved multi-cluster allocation, non-aligned file write performance.
• Change: Improved volume consistency and recovery if the storage device was unsafely detached or powered down.
• Change: Less disk space usage.
• New: The version/-V command line option has been added.

NTFS-3G 2009.2.1

Stable Version 2009.2.1 (February 12, 2009)

Changelog:

• New: The ‘recover’ and ‘norecover’ mount options were introduced. The former option will cause the driver to recover and repair a corrupted or inconsistent NTFS volume if it’s possible. The default behaviour is ‘recover’.
• Fix: The driver may crashed when it tried to read a highly fragmented file or directory which was either corrupted or it was unreadable due to a hardware error. Upgrade is recommended.
• Fix: The driver incorrectly returned ‘Permission denied’ error message if a requested extended attribute namespace wasn’t supported.
• Fix: The lack of file backup timestamp support confused some applications on OS X.
• Change: The user extended attribute namespace is supported by default on Linux.
• Change: A volume having unclean journal file is recovered and mounted by default. The ‘norecover’ mount option can be used to disable this behavior.

NTFS-3G 2009.1.1

Stable Version 2009.1.1 (January 22, 2009)

Changelog:

• New: Built-in, transparent UTF-8 conversion support. This solves all the problems, described here, and even more with hidden and inaccessible filenames having national characters.
• New: Support getting/setting the file creation timestamp on OS X.
• Fix: An extended attribute got corrupted if the new attribute size was smaller than the original size.
• Fix: Memory leaked if an extended attribute or alternate data stream couldn’t be opened.
• Fix: Report an error if a filename can not be listed during reading a directory.
• Change: The ‘locale=’ mount option is not used anymore for filename characterset conversion. Instead filenames are always converted to UTF-8.

NTFS-3G 1.5222-RC

TEST Version 1.5222-RC (December 22, 2008)

Changelog:

• New: Built-in, transparent UTF-8 conversion support.
• Fix: Report an error if a filename can not be listed during reading a directory.
• Change: The ‘locale=’ mount option is not used anymore for filename characterset conversion. Instead filenames are always converted to UTF-8.

NTFS-3G 1.5130

Stable Version 1.5130 (November 30, 2008)

Changelog:

• Fix: Reading a data storage with permanent or temporary physical damage, or a partial read(2) system call could result ignoring the low level hardware error and returning invalid data. Upgrade is recommended.

NTFS-3G 1.5012

Stable Version 1.5012 (October 12, 2008)

Changelog:

• Version 1.2926-RC is released unchanged as stable. The NTFS-3G driver is able for unlimited file and directory creation and removal as the result of 13 years continuous development with the help of hundreds of contributors over these years. Congratulations And Thank You To Everybody Who Made It Happen!

NTFS-3G 1.2918

Stable Version 1.2918 (September 18, 2008)

Changelog:

• Fix: A corrupted directory index entry could hang the driver instead of returning “I/O error”.

NTFS-3G 1.2926-RC

TEST Version 1.2926-RC (September 19, 2008)

Changelog:

• New: Support unlimited file and directory creation. Successfully tested the creation of 54 million (54,000,000) files in a single directory, besides the other test cases.

NTFS-3G 1.2812

Stable Version 1.2812 (August 15, 2008)

Changelog:

• Fix: The allocation size of an attribute may got corrupted if the attribute size change failed.
• Fix: An MFT record could leak on big-endian CPUs if adding a new attribute failed.
• Fix: The system log was flooded if a transparently compressed or encrypted file was tried to be updated repeatedly.
• New: Solaris support.
• New: Libtool-2 support.
• Change: No external dependency on librt anymore when internal FUSE is used (default on Linux).
• Change: The default compiler is gcc.
• Change: Internal FUSE further shrank by 10%.