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| author | Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> | 2004-05-07 19:55:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> | 2004-05-07 19:55:19 +0100 |
| commit | ec44dec793347028a735dbc6906e068c1e42597b (patch) | |
| tree | b85a67f5d04fa0fa4f71b4cb2d63ab2f601656c5 /Documentation | |
| parent | 1660b1af13d2a46fa9a2531290cff70b76455162 (diff) | |
| download | history-ec44dec793347028a735dbc6906e068c1e42597b.tar.gz | |
NTFS: 2.1.8 release - If the $LogFile indicates a clean shutdown and a
read-write (re)mount is requested, empty $LogFile by overwriting it
with 0xff bytes to ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption
by replaying a stale journal after Linux has written to the volume.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index fda6bf8882d3f5..556f8517c895dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -273,6 +273,18 @@ ChangeLog Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. +2.1.8: + - Read the $MFT mirror and compare it to the $MFT and if the two do not + match, force a read-only mount and do not allow read-write remounts. + - Read and parse the $LogFile journal and if it indicates that the + volume was not shutdown cleanly, force a read-only mount and do not + allow read-write remounts. If the $LogFile indicates a clean + shutdown and a read-write (re)mount is requested, empty $LogFile to + ensure that Windows cannot cause data corruption by replaying a stale + journal after Linux has written to the volume. + - Improve time handling so that the NTFS time is fully preserved when + converted to kernel time and only up to 99 nano-seconds are lost when + kernel time is converted to NTFS time. 2.1.7: - Enable NFS exporting of mounted NTFS volumes. 2.1.6: |