ToDo/Notes:
- Find and fix bugs.
- - In between ntfs_prepare/commit_write, need exclusion between
- simultaneous file extensions. This is given to us by holding i_sem
- on the inode. The only places in the kernel when a file is resized
- are prepare/commit write and ntfs_truncate() for both of which i_sem
- is held. Just have to be careful in read-/writepage and other helpers
+ - 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
+ 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
- with initialized_size extention in ntfs_prepare_write and writepage.
- UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are
- prepare/commit_write as well as the compressed write and the other
- attribute resize/write cases like index attributes, etc. For now
- none of these are implemented so are safe.
+ 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
+ attributes, etc. For now none of these are implemented so are safe.
+ - Implement filling in of holes in aops.c::ntfs_writepage() and its
+ helpers.
- Implement mft.c::sync_mft_mirror_umount(). We currently will just
leave the volume dirty on umount if the final iput(vol->mft_ino)
causes a write of any mirrored mft records due to the mft mirror
- Enable the code for setting the NT4 compatibility flag when we start
making NTFS 1.2 specific modifications.
-2.1.25-WIP
+2.1.25 - (Almost) fully implement write(2) and truncate(2).
- Change ntfs_map_runlist_nolock(), ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() and
{__,}ntfs_cluster_free() to also take an optional attribute search
extend the allocation of an attributes. Optionally, the data size,
but not the initialized size can be extended, too.
- Implement fs/ntfs/inode.[hc]::ntfs_truncate(). It only supports
- uncompressed and unencrypted files.
+ uncompressed and unencrypted files and it never creates sparse files
+ at least for the moment (making a file sparse requires us to modify
+ its directory entries and we do not support directory operations at
+ the moment). Also, support for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones
+ whose data attribute is split across multiple extents, is severly
+ limited. When such a case is encountered, EOPNOTSUPP is returned.
+ - Enable ATTR_SIZE attribute changes in ntfs_setattr(). This completes
+ the initial implementation of file truncation. Now both open(2)ing
+ a file with the O_TRUNC flag and the {,f}truncate(2) system calls
+ will resize a file appropriately. The limitations are that only
+ uncompressed and unencrypted files are supported. Also, there is
+ only very limited support for highly fragmented files (the ones whose
+ $DATA attribute is split into multiple attribute extents).
+ - In attrib.c::ntfs_attr_set() call balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited()
+ and cond_resched() in the main loop as we could be dirtying a lot of
+ pages and this ensures we play nice with the VM and the system as a
+ whole.
+ - Implement file operations ->write, ->aio_write, ->writev for regular
+ files. This replaces the old use of generic_file_write(), et al and
+ the address space operations ->prepare_write and ->commit_write.
+ This means that both sparse and non-sparse (unencrypted and
+ uncompressed) files can now be extended using the normal write(2)
+ code path. There are two limitations at present and these are that
+ we never create sparse files and that we only have limited support
+ for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones whose data attribute is split
+ across multiple extents. When such a case is encountered,
+ EOPNOTSUPP is returned.
+ - $EA attributes can be both resident and non-resident.
+ - Use %z for size_t to fix compilation warnings. (Andrew Morton)
+ - Fix compilation warnings with gcc-4.0.2 on SUSE 10.0.
+ - Document extended attribute ($EA) NEED_EA flag. (Based on libntfs
+ patch by Yura Pakhuchiy.)
2.1.24 - Lots of bug fixes and support more clean journal states.
- 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 <rddunlap@osdl.ord>)
+ fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>)
- 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
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