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authorAnton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>2006-02-24 09:55:07 +0000
committerAnton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>2006-02-24 09:55:07 +0000
commit3672b638ec1d5b1020ea27986060b830f09c96c1 (patch)
treedca562635528062a8c04c416978a1133b95310fc /fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
parentfab8d6ddf6dee2608869005d45fe97f70e4f5bdd (diff)
NTFS: - Cope with attribute list attribute having invalid flags.
Windows copes with this and even chkdsk does not detect or fix this so we have to cope with it, too. Thanks to Pawel Kot for reporting the problem. - Miscellaneous updates to layout.h. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
ToDo/Notes:
- Find and fix bugs.
- The only places in the kernel where a file is resized are
- ntfs_file_write*() and ntfs_truncate() for both of which i_sem is
+ ntfs_file_write*() and ntfs_truncate() for both of which i_mutex is
held. Just have to be careful in read-/writepage and other helpers
- not running under i_sem that we play nice... Also need to be careful
+ not running under i_mutex that we play nice. Also need to be careful
with initialized_size extension in ntfs_file_write*() and writepage.
UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are the compressed
write and the other attribute resize/write cases like index
@@ -19,6 +19,16 @@ ToDo/Notes:
- Enable the code for setting the NT4 compatibility flag when we start
making NTFS 1.2 specific modifications.
+2.1.26 - Minor bug fixes and updates.
+
+ - We have struct kmem_cache now so use it instead of the typedef
+ kmem_cache_t. (Pekka Enberg)
+ - Miscellaneous updates to layout.h.
+ - Cope with attribute list attribute having invalid flags. Windows
+ copes with this and even chkdsk does not detect or fix this so we
+ have to cope with it, too. Thanks to Pawel Kot for reporting the
+ problem.
+
2.1.25 - (Almost) fully implement write(2) and truncate(2).
- Change ntfs_map_runlist_nolock(), ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() and
@@ -373,7 +383,7 @@ ToDo/Notes:
single one of them had an mst error. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for
the bug report.)
- Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date()
- where we failed to release i_sem on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode.
+ where we failed to release i_mutex on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode.
- Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().
- Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e.
fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(),
@@ -874,7 +884,7 @@ ToDo/Notes:
clusters. (Philipp Thomas)
- attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a
multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs
- Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>)
+ Szakacsits)
2.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs.
@@ -884,7 +894,7 @@ ToDo/Notes:
- Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files.
- Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in
- fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>)
+ fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap)
- Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc.
- Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write()
around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write. Adapt NTFS appropriately
@@ -1201,11 +1211,11 @@ ToDo/Notes:
the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space()
function...
- Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The
- only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_sem during
- the call, and i_sem is sufficient protection against changes in the
- directory inode (including ->i_size).
+ only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_mutex
+ during the call, and i_mutex is sufficient protection against changes
+ in the directory inode (including ->i_size).
- Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to
- default_llseek()) as this downs i_sem instead of the BKL which is
+ default_llseek()) as this downs i_mutex instead of the BKL which is
what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we
no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir().